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Purpose
Evaluates acute and chronic posttraumatic symptomatology in young children
Authors
John Briere, PhD
Administration Formats
Additional Details
Parent/Caretaker Test of Trauma Symptoms in Children Ages 3 to 12 Years
Evaluate acute and chronic posttraumatic symptoms in children with the TSCYC with this 90 item questionnaire. This is the first fully standardized and normed broadband trauma measure for caretakers of young children ages 3-12 years who have been exposed to traumatic events such as child abuse, peer assault, and community violence.
Features and benefits
- Caretaker report is valid and easy to administer.
- Caretakers rate each of 90 symptoms on a four-point scale according to how frequently the symptom occurred in the previous month.
- Administer and score using PARiConnect.
- The 20-item TSCYC Screening Form screens for posttraumatic symptomatology in just 5 minutes. The TSCYC Screening Form consists of two subscales: General Trauma (12 items) and Sexual Concerns (8 items). Also available in Spanish.
Administration
Flexible administration options help you serve your client population in their preferred language
- Digital: Administer to English speaking clients using PARiConnect and then quickly generate a digital score report.
- Paper: Administer to clients in either English or Spanish using both the reusable Item Booklet and Answer Sheet. You may choose to hand-score using both the pages in the Answer Sheet with the companion Profile Form or input item responses into PARiConnect which will score and plot the profile for you.
Available in Spanish
TSCYC Reusable Item Booklets and Hand-Scorable Answer Sheets have been translated into U.S. Spanish. This product uses English norms only.
To learn more about the TSCYC, visit the PAR Training Portal and watch an instructional video!
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FAQs
What is the technical information of the TSCYC™?
Technical Information
- The TSCYC has two validity scales: (a) one that taps the caretaker’s tendency to deny any symptomatology (i.e., RL), and (b) one that indexes a tendency to overreport symptom items (i.e., ATR). Also evaluated is the amount of direct contact the rating caretaker has with the child in an average week.
- Reliability analyses of the TSCYC scales in the normative, validation, and Gilbert (2003) samples demonstrated high internal consistency.
Test structure
- Caretakers rate each of 90 symptoms on a four-point scale according to how frequently the symptom occurred in the previous month.
- Eight clinical scales (Anxiety, Depression, Anger/Aggression, Posttraumatic Stress-Intrusion, Posttraumatic Stress-Avoidance, Posttraumatic Stress-Arousal, Dissociation, and Sexual Concerns) and a summary scale provide valuable information to help you evaluate acute and chronic symptomatology and provide information on other symptoms found in many traumatized children.
- Specific scales ascertain the validity of the caretaker’s report.
- PTSD Diagnosis Worksheet helps you evaluate PTSD criteria, providing a possible PTSD diagnosis.
- Contains separate norms for males and females and for three age groups: 3-4 years, 5-9 years, and 10-12 years.
- TSCYC scale patterns have been found to predict different forms of trauma exposure in a published study of traumatized children.
- Associated with the occurrence of trauma in several samples including the standardization sample (N = 750), a subset of abused children (n = 104), and a subset of sexually abused children (n =45).
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