Childhood Trauma Questionnaire: A Retrospective Self-Report

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.