Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.

CTQ / CTQ-SF

What it measures

Retrospective self-report of childhood maltreatment on 5 subscales - emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect - plus a 3-item minimisation/denial validity scale

Length and format

28 (CTQ-SF); 70 (original CTQ). 5-pt Likert frequency (never true - very often true) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

25+ langs with published validations (DE, NL, ES, PT, ZH, JA, KO, FR, IT, TR, SV, FA, AR, PL, EL among them; approx)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - commercial

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Reference

Bernstein, D.P., Stein, J.A., Newcomb, M.D., et al. (2003). Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Child Abuse and Neglect, 27(2), 169-190.