Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Earthquake Survivors : A Preliminary Study

The Psychometric Properties of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for the DSM‐5 in Korean Adults Exposed to Natural Disasters1,2

“…The scale has been shown to have good internal consistency, test–retest reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity in a variety of trauma‐exposed samples (Blevins, Weathers, Davis, Witte, & Domino, 2015; Bovin et al, 2016; Ito, Takebayashi, Suzuki, & Horikoshi, 2019; Kim et al, 2017; Wortmann et al, 2016). In addition, it has been demonstrated that its cutoff scores are optimally efficient for diagnosing PTSD (Bovin et al, 2016; Wortmann et al, 2016), and that it is sensitive to assessing treatment change (Kwon, Yang, You, & Cho, 2017; Wortmann et al, 2016).…”