Reliability and Validity of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children – Spanish Version

Trauma and psychological distress in Latino citizen children following parental detention and deportation.

“…Specifically, the children of detained and deported parents were rated on the TSCYC–SP as endorsing more symptoms in all three DSM–IV PTSD criterion domains as well in total posttraumatic symptoms. Although to the best of our knowledge, no other study has used the TSCYC–SP with this population, our results seem congruent with those of prior studies reporting on the validity of the TSCYC–SP (e.g., Wherry et al, 2014). TSCYC–SP scores were significantly correlated with BASC-2 internalizing problems but not with child self-ratings, consistent with research documenting divergence in such child and parent reports (Briere, 2005; De Los Reyes & Kazdin, 2005).…”

“…Parents also completed the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children—Spanish Version (TSCYC–SP; Briere, 2005), a standardized 90-item caregiver report developed to assess trauma-related symptoms in children ages 3–12 ( T scores with clinical cutoff ≥70). The reliability and validity of the TSCYC–SP has been established in a sample of outpatient children from Spanish-speaking families, with reported Cronbach alphas from .67 to .93 (Wherry et al, 2014). Reliability for the TSCYC–SP scales in the current study were strong (alphas of .79 to .85).…”