Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ)

D.P. Bernstein & L.Fink

The CTQ is a 28 item self-report inventory that can be administered to adults and adolescents to provide reliable, valid screening for a history of abuse and neglect in order to establish whether traumatic childhood conditions are a factor in your client’s personal history. It is an effective, clinical tool, which can be administered in 5 minutes with 5 scales measuring:

• Physical abuse

• Sexual abuse

• Emotional abuse

• Physical neglect

• Emotional neglect

It includes a minimisation denial scale for detecting individuals who maybe under reporting traumatic events and interpretative guidelines which allow for identification of three levels of severity of abuse, neglect (low, moderate, severe).