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TSCYC™-SF

Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children™ Screening Form

John Briere, PhD

Purpose:
Helps identify possible child victims of trauma
Format:
Paper and pencil, Online administration and scoring via PARiConnect
Age range:
3 years to 12 years
Time:
5 minutes
Qualification level:
S
S
A degree, certificate, or license to practice in a health care profession or occupation, including (but not limited to) the following: medicine, neurology, nursing, occupational therapy and other allied health care professions, physician's assistants, psychiatry, social work; plus appropriate training and experience in the ethical administration, scoring, and interpretation of clinical behavioral assessment instruments. Certain health care providers may be eligible to purchase selected "B" and "C" level instruments within their area of expertise. Specifically, relevant supervised clinical experience using tests (i.e., internship, residency, etc.) in combination with formal coursework ( i.e., Tests and Measurement, Individual Assessment, or equivalent) qualifies a health care provider to purchase certain restricted products. Any PAR Customer already qualified to purchase a "B" or "C" level product, is also qualified to purchase an "S" level product. If you are not already qualified to purchase a "B"or "C" level product from PAR, please download and complete the special Qualification Form for Medical and Allied Health Professionals. (You will need Adobe Acrobat to view.) Close

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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. 

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