Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.

By D. Bernstein, J. Stein, M. Newcomb, E. Walker, D. Pogge, Taruna Ahluvalia, J. Stokes, L. Handelsman, M. Medrano, D. Desmond and 1 more. International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect, 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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The Role of Early Life Stress in Adult Psychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review According to Childhood Trauma Subtypes (2013, background): “biting, twisting, kicking, poisoning, choking, strangling, pushing, pinching, shaking, throwing objects, drowning, or cutting Sexual abuse: any kind of sexual conduct by an adult or older adolescent involving a child into something that he/she is not mentally or emotionally prepared or does not full”
Relationship of resilience to personality, coping, and psychiatric symptoms in young adults. (2006, background): “The CTQ-SF has also demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity with therapists’ independent ratings of child abuse (Bernstein et al., 2003).”
The Role of Early Life Stress as a Predictor for Alcohol and Drug Dependence (2010, methodology): “Older studies have generally reported on only one or two forms of childhood maltreatment, notably CSA and physical abuse, but more recent studies have used newly developed measures including the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (Bernstein et al. 2003) and the Early Trauma Inventory (Bremner et al. 200”
Childhood Adversity and Neural Development: Deprivation and Threat as Distinct Dimensions of Early Experience (2014, background): “Dimensional easures of trauma exposure frequency and severity are widely vailable (Bernstein et al., 2003), and measures of environmental nrichment have been developed for young children (Caldwell and radley, 1984).”
Emotional Abuse, Verbal Victimization, and the Development of Children’s Negative Inferential Styles and Depressive Symptoms (2008, methodology): “As before, the CTQ-EA subscale (Bernstein et al., 1994; Bernstein et al., 2003) was used to assess levels of emotional abuse.”
Assessments of emotional abuse and neglect with the CTQ: Issues and estimates (2010, background): “Four samples, both clinical and community, produced alphas for the emotional abuse scale between .84 and .89 and for the emotional neglect scale between .85 and .91 (Bernstein et al., 2003).”
Psychological characteristics of self-injurious behavior (2007, background): “These include: trauma (Zlotnick, Mattia, & Zimmerman, 2001), emotional and physical neglect (Bernstein et al., 2003; Gratz et al., 2002; van der Kolk, Perry, & Herman, 1991), sexual abuse (Bernstein et al., 2003; van der Kolk et al., 1991), alexithymia (Zlotnick et al., 1996, 2001), and…”
Current research trends in early life stress and depression: review of human studies on sensitive periods, gene-environment interactions, and epigenetics. (2012, positive): “In the E-Risk cohort, child abuse was measured using the childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ; Bernstein et al., 2003), similar to the original study, while in the Dunedin study, early life stress was assessed using a multimodal approach involving caregivers and records (Polanczyk et al., 2009).”
Does Self-Compassion Mitigate the Association Between Childhood Maltreatment and Later Emotion Regulation Difficulties? A Preliminary Investigation (2011, background): “…report questionnaire, which encompasses a validity scale evaluating minimization/denial, and history of five major abusive domains: (a) Physical abuse, (b) Physical neglect, (c) Emotional abuse, (d) Emotional neglect, and (e) Sexual abuse (Bernstein et al. 2003; Bernstein and Fink 1998).”
Child Maltreatment, Emotion Regulation, and Posttraumatic Stress: The Impact of Emotional Abuse (2010, methodology): “The CTQ’s validity has been supported by demonstrating convergent validity with ratings of childhood maltreatment of both clinicians and therapists, and a consistent five-factor structure (Bernstein & Fink, 1998; Bernstein et al., 2003; Scher et al., 2001).”