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Purpose
Helps identify possible child victims of trauma
Authors
John Briere, PhD
Administration Formats
Additional Details
In Just 5 Minutes, Administer the Trauma Screening Form to Individuals or Groups of Parents/Caregivers
The TSCYC Screening Form allows you to quickly screen the parents or caregivers of 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.
Administration
- Digital: Administer to English speaking clients using PARiConnect and then digitally score.
- Paper: Administer to clients in either English or Spanish using the Answer Sheet. You may choose to hand-score using the pages in the Answer Sheet or input item responses into PARiConnect which will score and plot the profile for you.
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.
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FAQs
What is the technical information of the TSCYC™-SF?
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.
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