The Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children: A Psychometric Review.

Unlabelled: The Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children (TSCYC) is a 90-item caregiver-report measure of childhood traumatic stress and abuse-related experiences in children, ages three to twelve years old.

Purpose: The objective of this review is to examine the current empirical evidence ( = 22) regarding the psychometric properties of the TSCYC.

Method: A variety of study designs were reviewed for psychometric evidence supporting the reliability and validity of the TSCYC.

The Influence of Youth Gender and Complex Trauma on the Relation Between Treatment Conditions and Outcomes in Therapeutic Residential Care.

Complex trauma (CT) is the experience, or witness, of prolonged abuse or neglect that negatively affects children's emotional and psychological health. Youth in residential care experience higher incidences of complex trauma than youth in community-based care, with notable gender differences and presentation of psychological symptoms. This study examined the effects of trauma-informed residential care and the relation between CT and gender.