Childhood Trauma Questionnaire: A Retrospective Self-Report

CTQ

David P. Bernstein, Laura Fink

Childhood Trauma Questionnaire: A Retrospective Self-Report (CTQ) is a reliable, valid screening for a history of child abuse and neglect.

Product Name	ISBN	Description
CTQ Complete Kit	158102339	Includes: CTQ Manual 25 CTQ Ready Score Answer Documents

Product Name

ISBN

Description

CTQ Complete Kit

158102339

Includes:

Publication date: 1997

Age range: 12 and older

Qualification level: B Additional information

Completion time: 5 Minutes

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.

Professional assessments