I have the CTQ manual and here are the scoring cut offs:

Emotional Abuse: None=5-8; Low=9-12; Moderate=13-15; Severe=16+

Physical Abuse: None=5-7; Low=8-9; Moderate=10-12; Severe=13+

Sexual Abuse: None=5; Low=6-7; Moderate=8-12; Severe=13+

Emotional Neglect: None=5-9; Low=10-14; Moderate=15-17; Severe=18+

Physical Neglect: None=5-7; Low=8-9; Moderate=10-12; Severe=13+

Also, please note that in the handbook, "None" is also described as "None or Minimal", "Low" is also described as "Low to Moderate", "Moderate" it also described as "Moderate to Severe" and "Severe" is also described at "Severe to Extreme"...However, I feel it is more simple to use None, Low, Moderate and Severe

Deart Mercede,

Maybe this book will help you.

Kind regards.

 Dear Silvio,

Thank you for sharing the book, although I already had it and it has no explanation regarding scoring the questionnaire! I actually need the full manual.

Best,

What exactly do you require?

How to score each subcategory and also how to take minimization /denial subcategory?

Hi Mercede,

Did you find out how the CTQ scoring manual or any other means of how to do it? I have the same difficulty.

Thank you.

Irismar. 

*The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. From Pennebaker, J.W. & Susman, J.R. (1988). Disclosure of traumas and psychosomatic processes. Social Science and Medicine, 26, 327-332. A brief survey of 6 early traumatic experiences (death, divorce, violence, sexual abuse, illness, or other) and ratings of the degree to which individuals confided the traumas. There is no psychometric information available for this questionnaire. The items are face valid. There is no scoring key for this questionnaire. You can score it any way that you like. Feel free to change the items in any way you prefer. Go ahead and translate it into any language. You do not need my permission to use this.

Dear Christine

thst is not what I was looking for but CTQ by Bernstein et al. ( 1997), investigating 5 different subcategories of childhood maltreatment 

I have the CTQ manual and here are the scoring cut offs:

Emotional Abuse: None=5-8; Low=9-12; Moderate=13-15; Severe=16+

Physical Abuse: None=5-7; Low=8-9; Moderate=10-12; Severe=13+

Sexual Abuse: None=5; Low=6-7; Moderate=8-12; Severe=13+

Emotional Neglect: None=5-9; Low=10-14; Moderate=15-17; Severe=18+

Physical Neglect: None=5-7; Low=8-9; Moderate=10-12; Severe=13+

Also, please note that in the handbook, "None" is also described as "None or Minimal", "Low" is also described as "Low to Moderate", "Moderate" it also described as "Moderate to Severe" and "Severe" is also described at "Severe to Extreme"...However, I feel it is more simple to use None, Low, Moderate and Severe

 Please send me the manual of child trauma questionnaire brnestin  and fink 1998

This is the link for purchasing the manual (Pearson Inc):

http://www.pearsonclinical.com/psychology/products/100000446/childhood-trauma-questionnaire-a-retrospective-self-report-ctq.html 

hello,

Please download the child trauma questionnaire  scale (brenestin) and manual also

BEST

Research scholar

Samvedna sharma(INDIA)

Hello! 

Does anyone have a copy of the CTQ and manual by Bernstein and Fink? I'd be very grateful for any leads or help! Thanks!

Arshia as you requested

Hello, does anyone know if you can calculate a total (i.e. global maltreatment) score on the CTQ instead of just the subscales? Don't have a manual to verify this. Thanks!

Hi Michelle, 

As far as I know it is not possible! Please find the manual attached, although it is all about scoring.

Hi I cannot see the whole manual, but only a few pages. Am I missing something?

Thanks

Hi, do I need to purchase/ get permission from Bernstein and Fink to use CTQ? Can I use your CTQ manual for my study? Any prob on it?

Hi Sarasuphadi,

I'm afraid you need to purchase the manual. It is written in it that one should not lend it.

I'm sorry!

Is it possible to have CTQ and manual free of charge? or any discount for students?

So far mostly used the free version!

I know this is an old thread, but i am looking for reliability data in the CTQ. Does anybody have this that can share with me or know where I can access this as a student?

Hi,

This article might help you.

Article Childhood trauma: a risk for major depression in patients wi...

Do you know if there is reliabilty data that they have from the norm group? I’m working on a critique of the original assessment. I thought that might be in the manual

Not that I know! I did lots of literature reviewing and could not find however if you find something please share it with me.

Will do

To add to the discussion: The attached paper describes binomial cutoff scores for each of the sub-scales, validated by comparison with a blinded clinical interview (sensitivity and specificity > 0.85 for each).

Thank you Bart for sharing this.

The paper has been published long ago anyways.

Best,

M.

Hola Mercedes,

Here are my SPSS syntaxs for the CTQ:

RECODE

CTQ2 CTQ5 CTQ7 CTQ13 CTQ19 CTQ26 CTQ28 (1=5) (2=4) (3=3) (4=2) (5=1) .

EXECUTE .

COMPUTE CTQEmotionalAbuse = CTQ3 + CTQ8 + CTQ14 + CTQ18 + CTQ25 .

VARIABLE LABELS CTQEmotionalAbuse 'CTQEmotionalAbuse' .

EXECUTE .

COMPUTE CTQPhysicalAbuse = CTQ9 + CTQ11 + CTQ12 + CTQ15 + CTQ17 .

VARIABLE LABELS CTQPhysicalAbuse 'CTQPhysicalAbuse' .

EXECUTE .

COMPUTE CTQEmotionalNeglect = CTQ5 + CTQ7 + CTQ13 + CTQ19 .

VARIABLE LABELS CTQEmotionalNeglect 'CTQEmotionalNeglect' .

EXECUTE .

COMPUTE CTQPhysicalNeglect = CTQ1 + CTQ4 + CTQ6 + CTQ2 + CTQ26 .

VARIABLE LABELS CTQPhysicalNeglect 'CTQPhysicalNeglect' .

EXECUTE .

COMPUTE CTQSexualAbuse = CTQ20 + CTQ21 + CTQ23 + CTQ24 + CTQ27 .

VARIABLE LABELS CTQSexualAbuse 'CTQSexualAbuse' .

EXECUTE .

COMPUTE CTQTotal = CTQEmotionalAbuse + CTQPhysicalAbuse + CTQEmotionalNeglect + CTQPhysicalNeglect + CTQSexualAbuse.

VARIABLE LABELS CTQTotal 'CTQTotal' .

EXECUTE .

Ciao,

Samet

Emily H. Brackman I'm looking for this as well, were you able to find anything?

Hi everyone,

do you have also the cut off for the total score?

Thanks a lot in advance

Martina

You can find more info about cut score in the attached pages.

Mercede

Thank you

Do you have the APA reference for the pages you included as PDFs? Thank you!

So helpful! I would also like to have the APA reference for the pages..

Do we cut off scores for the total CTQ?

it has been explained in the manual, scroll up, you can easily found it in the thread

IDear i am from Pakistan and doing PhD in Psychology I want to use Child Trauma Questionnaire in my research for this purposeIi have to translate it in Urdu language. i need need permission, Any one can guide me

It has already been translated and used in Urdu. See below:

http://jpps.com.pk/article/15432137783788-Development%20of%20Child%20Abuse%20and%20Neglect%20Experience%20Screening%20Questionaire%20for%20Patients%20Suffering%20From%20Depressive%20and%20Anxiety%20Symptoms-.pdf

dear i want to translate child trauma questionnaire(david p. bernstein). which has 28 items. i think it is not translated on urdu

please guide me in this regard. thanks

you did not answer me dear

Asma Gul

Try to get in touch with the authors of the paper i shared in earlier post. Since the study was done in Pakistani’s population, i am sure it was translated.

Dear I know the author of that study. But she translated other test. I will inquire to her about my test