Traumatic Events Screening Inventory: Assessing Trauma in Children (From Out of the Darkness: Contemporary Perspectives on Family Violence, P 113-118, 1997, Glenda K. Kantor, Jana L. Jasinski, eds. - See NCJ-171756)

• NCJ Number: 171764
• Author(s): J H Edwards; K C Rogers
• Date Published: 1997
• Length: 6 pages
• Sale Source: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This chapter discusses a new assessment measure of children's exposure to a large number of potentially traumatic events.

Abstract

The Traumatic Events Screening Inventory (TESI) is an 18-item questionnaire concerning potentially traumatic events to which a child may have been exposed. The TESI improves on previous instrumentation by including both a child and parent version of the instrument. The questionnaire was administered to a sub-set of consecutively seen intakes in a child psychiatric outpatient clinic; children and one-parent and two-parent households participated. Identification of traumatic event exposure allows the clinician to comprehensively assess and understand a child's functioning and thereby assist in treatment. The TESI also is of potential benefit for clinical research purposes, and can be integrated with other methods. A limitation is the level of psychometric maturity, but this limitation does not appear to interfere significantly with the clinical benefits of using the inventory. Tables, references