References for Trauma Screening and Assessment for Children and Adolescents:

 

Achenbach, T. M. (1991). Manual for the Child Behavior Checklist/4-18 and 1991 Profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry.

Achenbach, T. M., & Edelbrock, C. (1983). Manual for the Child Behavior Checklist and Revised Child Behavior Profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry.

Bernstein, D.P., Fink, L., Handelsman, L., Foote, J., Lovejoy, M., Wenzed, K., Sapareta, E. & Ruggiero, J. (1994). Initial reliability and validity of a new retrospective measure of child abuse and neglect. American Journal of Psychiatry, 151, 1132-1136.

 

Blanchard, E.B., Jones-Alexander, J., Buckley, T.C., Forneris, C.A. (1996).  Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist (PCL). Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34, 669-673.

 

Hodas, G.R. (2004). Understanding and responding to childhood trauma: Creating trauma informed care.  Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

 

National Executive Training Institute: NETI. (2005). Creating violence free and coercion free mental health treatment environments; Reducing the use of seclusion and restraint. A Training Curriculum. Alexandria, VA: NASMHPD.  

 

Newman, E. (2002). Assessment of PTSD and trauma exposure in adolescents. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 6, 59-77.

 

Steinberg, A., Brymer, M., Decker, K., & Pynoos, R. (2004).  The UCLA PTSD Reaction Index. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 6, 96-100.

 

Winston, F., Kassam-Adams, N. Garcia-Espana, F. Ittenbach, R., Cnaan, A. (2003). Screening for risk of persistent posttraumatic stress in injured children and their parents.  Journal of the American Medical Association, 290:643-649.

 

Wolpaw, J. & Ford, J. (2004). Assessing exposure to psychological and post-traumatic stress in the juvenile justice population.  Washington, DC: Juvenile Justice Working Group of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, www.NCTSNet.org

 

Wolpaw, J., Ford, J, Newman, E. & Briere, J.  (in press) Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children