The TSCYC Screening Form allows you to quickly screen children ages 3-12 years for symptoms of trauma and determine if follow-up evaluation and treatment is warranted.

Features and benefits

• Provides a valid, reliable, and standardized means to screen child victims of trauma.
• Supports the trauma informed care approach to treatment.
• Takes just 5 minutes to administer and score.
• Quickly indicates whether a child is at risk for clinically significant psychological disturbance.
• Useful for clinicians who see large numbers of children in short periods of time.
• Does not require an advanced degree or training to administer and score.
• Can be administered individually or in a group setting.

Test structure

• Derived from the TSCYC. Selected items were best at predicting overall trauma and sexual-related symptomatology.
• Includes 20 items and two subscales—General Trauma (12 items) and Sexual Concerns (8 items)—that are scored separately.
• Features separate cutoff scores (derived from TSCYC normative data) for boys and girls ages 3-4 years, ages 5-9 years, and ages 10-12 years.

Technical information

• Normative data (N = 750) features caretaker reports of children ages 3-12 years.
• Internal consistency coefficients are in the good-to-excellent range.
• Test–retest reliability was r = .80 (p <. 001) for each scale.

Available in Spanish

TSCYC-SF Hand Scorable Answer Sheets have been translated into U.S. Spanish to assist clinicians with bilingual and Spanish-speaking children and families. A Spanish Kit is also available. This product uses English norms only.