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Trauma Symptom Checklist for
Children Screening Form™
(TSCC-SF™) John Briere, PhD
Overview • The TSCC screening form allows you to quickly screen for posttraumatic stress and related psychological in children ages 8-17 years who have experienced traumatic events, such as physical or sexual abuse, major loss, natural disasters, or who have been witness to violence. • Quickly indicates whether a child or youth is at risk for clinically significant psychological disturbance. • Supports the Trauma informed care approach to treatment.
• Does not require an advanced degree or training to
administer and score. Administration • Carbonless form takes just 5 minutes to administer and score.
Administration • Can be administered individually or in a group setting.
The TSCC allows you to measure • The testing environment should be relatively quiet, free form posttraumatic stress and related distraction, and adequately illuminated. psychological symptomatology in children who have • The TSCC screening form consists of two subscales: General experienced traumatic events. Trauma (GT), with 12 items, and Sexual Concerns (SC), with 8 items. Made for individuals ages 8-17 years Scoring and Reporting • Tear of the perforated strips along the side of the completed form and peel away the side of the top sheet to reveal the scoring sheet beneath. • The scoring sheet is used to calculate the General Trauma (GT) raw score and the Sexual Concerns (SC) raw score. • The SC subscale is scored separately from the GT subscale because sexual symptoms are somewhat specific to childhood sexual abuse, whereas nonsexual symptoms reflect general abuse-related impacts. Reliability, Validity, and Norms
• Normative data (N = 3,955) features self-reports of children ages 8-17 years from three nonclinical samples. • Internal consistency coefficients are in the good-to-excellent range.
• Test-retest reliability was r= .80 (p< .001) for each scale.
