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If you are in an immediate crisis, please go to your nearest Emergency Room, or call 911, or call 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255) to talk to someone right now. Traumatic Events Questionnaire (TEQ)Vrana & Lauterbach, 1994
DescriptionThe 11-item Traumatic Events Questionnaire (TEQ) assesses 9 events such as experiencing a serious accident (industrial, farm or car), receiving news of serious injury or death of someone, and being a victim of physical or sexual abuse. It also allows for an unspecified traumatic event to be examined. For each event endorsed, respondents are asked to provide the frequency, age at the time(s) of the event, degree of injury, degree of life threat, degree of how traumatizing the event was at the time, and degree of how traumatizing the event is currently. A 7-point scale (1="not at all" to 7="extremely") is used for each of the degree questions. The TEQ is suitable for research and clinical purposes. Sample ItemHave you witnessed someone who was mutilated, seriously inured, or violently killed? (How many times? How old were you at the time? Were you injured? Did you feel your life was threatened? How traumatic was this for you at that time? How traumatic is this for you now?). VersionsThe military version includes 3 additional items that examines serving in a war zone (e.g., being a Prisoner of War and observing or participating in atrocities). ReferencesVrana, S. R. & Lauterbach, D. (1994). Prevalence of traumatic events and post-traumatic psychological symptoms in a nonclinical sample of college students. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 7, 289-302. Additional ReviewsOrsillo (2001) p. 296. Orsillo, Susan M. (2001). Measures for acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. In M.M. Antony & S.M. Orsillo (Eds.), Practitioner's guide to empirically based measures of anxiety (pp. 255-307). New York: KluwerAcademic/Plenum. PILOTS ID 24368 Norris and Hamblen (2004) p. 67. Norris, Fran H. & Hamblen, Jessica L. (2004). Standardized self-report measures of civilian trauma and PTSD. In J.P. Wilson, T.M. Keane & T. Martin (Eds.), Assessing psychological trauma and PTSD (pp. 63-102). New York: Guilford Press. PILOTS ID 18638 To obtain scale, contactScott Vrana, PhD From the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,
US Department of Veterans Affairs. What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Trauma Exposure MeasuresChart - Trauma Exposure Measures PTSD Screening InstrumentsBelow is a list of links to information on select PTSD Screens, brief questionnaires completed in order to identify people who are more likely to have PTSD. A positive response to the screen does not necessarily indicate that a patient has Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. However, a positive response does indicate that a patient may have PTSD or trauma-related problems and further investigation of trauma symptoms by a mental-health professional may be warranted. Chart - Screens for PTSD PLEASE NOTE: Screens are to be used to determine possible problems, and positive cases should be followed up by assessment with a structured interview for PTSD. Common Reactions to TraumaPeople experience a range of reactions following trauma. Here you will find information on what these common reactions are, including anger, nightmares, sleep problems, and more. Avoidance If you are in an immediate crisis, please go to your nearest Emergency Room, or call 911, or call 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255) to talk to someone right now. |