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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.
Age range:: 12 and older
Publication date:: 1997
Qualification level:: B

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Completion time:: 5 Minutes

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Childhood Trauma Questionnaire is 28-item, self-report tool useful with individuals referred for a broad range of psychiatric symptoms and problems.

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.

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.

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