Childhood Trauma Questionnaire: A Retrospective Self-Report (CTQ) is a reliable, valid screening for a history of child abuse and neglect.
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire: A Retrospective Self-Report
CTQ
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire: A Retrospective Self-Report (CTQ) is a reliable, valid screening for a history of child abuse and neglect.
Overview
Product Details
- Publication date:
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1997
- Age range:
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12 and older
- Qualification level:
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B
- Completion time:
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5 Minutes
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.
