Einsatzbereich
Caretakers of children ages 3-12 years.
Beschreibung
The new Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children (TSCYC™) is the first fully standardized and normed broadband trauma measure for children as young as 3 years of age. The TSCYC™ is a 90-item caretaker-report instrument. Caretakers rate each symptom on a 4-point scale according to how often the symptom has occurred in the previous month. The TSCYC™ contains eight Clinical scales: Anxiety, Depression, Anger/Aggression, Posttraumatic Stress-Intrusion, Posttraumatic Stress-Avoidance, Posttraumatic Stress-Arousal, Dissociation, and Sexual Concerns, as well as a summary posttraumatic stress scale (Posttraumatic Stress-Total). These scales provide a detailed evaluation of posttraumatic stress, as well as information on other symptoms found in many traumatized children.
Zuverlässigkeit
Internal consistency for the Clinical scales in the standardization sample ranged from .78 to .92, with an average clinical alpha coefficient of .86. Similar results were found in clinical and child abuse treatment samples. Homogeneity-corrected test-retest correlation coefficients for TSCYC™ scales ranged from .68 to .96, with a median coefficient of .88.
Testgültigkeit
Discriminant, predictive, and construct validity have been demonstrated for the TSCYC™ in multiple samples and studies. Different TSCYC™ scale patterns have been found to predict different forms of trauma exposure in a published study of traumatized children.
Normen
Norms are based on a stratified national standardization sample of 750 children. Separate norms for males and females and for three age groups: 3-4 years, 5-9 years, and 10-12 years.
Bearbeitungsdauer
15-20 minutes.
Erscheinungshinweis
In use since 2005.
Copyright-Jahr
2005
