Description: Identify adolescent and adult clients with histories of trauma - a reliable, valid screening for a history of child abuse and neglect. Childhood Trauma Questionnaire is 28-item, self-report tool useful with individuals referred for a broad range of psychiatric symptoms and problems. Benefits - Identify likely cases of abuse and neglect at three levels of severity: low, moderate, and severe. - Use manual to formulate treatment plans, conduct child custody investigations, assess special populations. - Good convergent and divergent validity with trauma histories from other measures. - Highly sensitive to identifying individuals with verified histories. Features CTQ scores on five scales: Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Physical Neglect and Emotional Neglect. - 28 items cover: post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, eating disorders, addictions, suicide attempts, personality disorders and sexual problems. - Includes a Minimization/Denial scale for detecting individuals who may be underreporting traumatic events. - Scores can be compared to data from more than 2,200 males and females from seven different clinical and community samples, representing a broad range of ages, socioeconomic status and different racial/ethnic groups.

Series: CTQ

Publisher: Pearson Assessment UK

Year Published: 1997

Qualifications: Level B

Grade: Age 12 and older

Format: KIT

Components: Includes CTQ Manual and 25 CTQ Ready Score Answer Documents

Keywords: screening history child abuse, neglect.