Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children

Wolpaw, Jennifer Meltzer; Ford, Julián D.; Newman, Elana; Davis, Joanne L.; Briere, John

doi:10.1037/t06631-000

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“…Another new direction is the inclusion of a wider range of child outcomes, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and physical health. It is notable that although there are some overlapping symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety), PTSD is distinct from global internalizing problems, including symptoms occurring in the context of traumatic events, such as intrusive thoughts, fear, dissociation, and emotional numbing (Briere, 1996). This study further explicates the link between child functioning and marital aggression by examining multiple domains of child adjustment, including externalizing, internalizing, PTSD symptoms, and physical health.…”

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“…The Trauma Symptoms Checklist for Children (TSCC; Briere, 1996) is a 44-item questionnaire that assesses numerous symptom domains related to children's responses to indeterminate (i.e., nonspecified) traumatic events and was administered via interview. Children rated how often they think, feel, or do each item on a scale ranging from 0 (never) to 3 (almost all of the time).…”

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Marital psychological and physical aggression and children's mental and physical health: Direct, mediated, and moderated effects.

El‐Sheikh¹,

Cummings²,

Kouros³

et al. 2008

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

122

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Relations between marital aggression (psychological and physical) and children's health were examined. Children's emotional insecurity was assessed as a mediator of these relations, with distinctions made between marital aggression against mothers and fathers and ethnicity (African American or European American), socioeconomic status, and child gender examined as moderators of effects. Participants were 251 community-recruited families, with multiple reporters of each construct. Aggression against either parent yielded similar effects for children. Children's emotional insecurity mediated the relation between marital aggression and children's internalizing, externalizing, and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. No differences were found in these pathways for African American and European American families or as a function of socioeconomic status or child gender. Keywords marital aggression; emotional security theory; child health; child adjustment; PTSD Children's exposure to marital aggression is a recognized public health problem (National Institutes of Health [NIH], 2003, PAR-03-096), and the examination of the effects of such aggression on child functioning is a significant societal concern. Marital conflict is broadly defined as any difference of opinion, whether minor or major and whether primarily positive or negative. Marital conflict can take many forms, including displays of both positive and negative emotions and constructive (e.g., problem-solving) and destructive (e.g., physical assault) tactics. Thus, marital aggression, characterized by physical and/or psychological abuse, is at the negative extreme of a continuum of marital conflict (Cummings, 1998 considered by some to be psychological abuse, whereas marital physical violence indicates physical assault on a partner's body (Jouriles, Norwood, & McDonald, 1996). Marital psychological/verbal and physical aggression is prevalent in U.S. families (NIH, 2003, PAR-03-096) and is associated with adverse child outcomes in externalizing (Jouriles, Murphy, & O'Learey, 1989), internalizing (Marks, Glaser, Glass, & Horne, 2001), and posttraumatic stress disorder domains (Kilpatrick & Williams, 1997).High levels of spousal physical violence typically co-occur with psychological abuse (Stets, 1990), with psychological abuse almost always preceding physical violence in the relationship (O'Leary, Malone, Tyree, 1994). Furthermore, marital psychological abuse may account for additional unique variance in child functioning after controlling for the effects of physical aggression (Jouriles et al., 1996), highlighting the importance of examining multiple aspects of marital aggression.This study addresses not only the sequelae of marital physical violence on child functioning but also the effects of the more prevalent psychological and emotional marital abuse (Marshall, 1992). Moving beyond the examination of the effects of marital aggression and violence on child witnesses in battered women shelters and clinical settings, this study focuses on a commu...

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Marital psychological and physical aggression and children's mental and physical health: Direct, mediated, and moderated effects.

El‐Sheikh¹,

Cummings²,

Kouros³

et al. 2008

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

122

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Self-esteem was gathered using the child report Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale [34], a 10-questions scale with items answered on a 4-point scale – from strongly agree to strongly disagree. The scale ranges from 0 to 30, with summed scores below 15 suggesting low self-esteem.

Depressive symptoms were assessed using the 10-item Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI, [35]) and a summed score ranging from 0 to 20 was generated. Trauma symptomatology was measured by self-report using the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSCC) [36]. The scale consists of 10 statements, and symptoms include intrusive thoughts, sensations and memories of painful past events, nightmares, fears, and avoidance of painful feelings.…”

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“…Trauma symptomatology was measured by self-report using the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSCC) [36]. The scale consists of 10 statements, and symptoms include intrusive thoughts, sensations and memories of painful past events, nightmares, fears, and avoidance of painful feelings.…”

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Paid staff or volunteers – does it make a difference? The impact of staffing on child outcomes for children attending community-based programmes in South Africa and Malawi

Tomlinson

Sherr

Macedo

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Global Health Action

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Background: Globally, and in low and middle income countries (LMIC) specifically, there is a critical shortage of workers. The use of volunteers to support such care delivery systems has been examined, there is scant literature on the impact of volunteers on child outcome in high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-affected communities. Objectives: To examine the differential impact of paid versus volunteer workforce in Community Based Organisations (CBOs) providing care to children and families affected by the HIV epidemic in South Africa and Malawi on child outcomes over time. Methods: This study compared child outcomes for 989 consecutive children attending CBOs (0.7% refusal) at baseline and 854 at follow-up (86.3% response rate). Results: Children attending CBOs with paid staff had higher self-esteem, fewer emotional/behavioural problems and less perceived stigma. Likewise, children attending CBOs with paid staff had fewer educational risks, and 20 heightened cognitive performance, and the digit-span memory test. After controlling for outcome at baseline, gender, age, HIV status, and disability, attending a CBO with paid staff remained a significant independent predictor of higher self-esteem scores, less perceived stigma, as well as fewer educational risks and better performance on the drawing test. We found no associations between CBO attendance – paid or volunteer – and children’s depressive and trauma symptoms. Conclusions: Our findings show that in order to most optimally impact on child outcome 30 community-based workers (CBWs) should ideally be paid with trained staff. Specialised input for more severe child difficulties is needed.

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“…The TSCC (Briere, 1996) is a self-report questionnaire about trauma related symptoms. It consists of 54 items (scored 0–3), six main clinical subscales (anxiety, depression, anger, posttraumatic stress, dissociation, sexual concerns) and two validity scales (hyper-response, under-response).…”

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Peritraumatic reactions in relation to trauma exposure and symptoms of posttraumatic stress in high school students

Aho

Svedin

2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Exposure to traumatic events is clearly associated with a diversity of subsequent mental health problems, with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as the most prevalent disorder. Epidemiologically, trauma exposure rates are more prevalent than PTSD, indicating that most trauma victims do not develop PTSD. More knowledge is needed to understand the development of the different posttraumatic pathways including the significance of pretraumatic, peritraumatic and posttraumatic risk factors. Objective: To study peritraumatic reactions in relation to trauma exposure and symptoms of posttraumatic stress and to enhance our understanding of peritraumatic reactions as mediators between trauma and later symptomatology. Method: The study was composed of a representative community sample of 5332 second year high school students (mean age 17.3 years) who completed the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (SAQ/JVQ), Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSCC) and answered questions about peritraumatic reactions. Mediation effects of peritraumatic reactions on the trauma exposure relationship to symptoms was tested using the PROCESS macro for SPSS. Results: Traumatic events are common (84.1%) and are accompanied in three-quarters of the students with at least one form of peritraumatic reaction. Peritraumatic reactions, especially peritraumatic dissociative reactions, mediate the relationship between trauma exposure and symptoms, and gender moderates the effect of peritraumatic dissociation. This moderating effect was found to be larger for boys than for girls, indicating gender differences in response to trauma. Conclusions: The results indicate the need to screen for peritraumatic reactions as early as possible after a traumatic event in order to identify those at risk for PTSD.

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Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children

Cited by 615 publications

References 9 publications

Marital psychological and physical aggression and children's mental and physical health: Direct, mediated, and moderated effects.

Marital psychological and physical aggression and children's mental and physical health: Direct, mediated, and moderated effects.

Paid staff or volunteers – does it make a difference? The impact of staffing on child outcomes for children attending community-based programmes in South Africa and Malawi

Peritraumatic reactions in relation to trauma exposure and symptoms of posttraumatic stress in high school students

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