{"id":6688,"date":"2020-11-17T17:24:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2025-02-07T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:05:12","slug":"child-ptsd-symptoms-cpss-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/child-ptsd-symptoms-cpss-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Child PTSD Symptoms | CPSS-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wysiwyg-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS-5)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wysiwyg-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Recommended\u00a0frequency: Every 4 weeks<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span class=\"wysiwyg-underline\">Summary<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS-5) is a 27-item measure that evaluates posttraumatic symptom severity in children and adolescents based on DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.<\/p>\n<p>There are two parts to the scale. The first part of the scale consists of 20 items that evaluate the frequency and severity of re-experiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal symptoms individuals exposed to a traumatic or distressing event may have experienced over the past month on a 5-point Likert scale. The second part of the CPSS-5 contains 7 items and determines whether any of the posttraumatic symptoms have functionally impaired a certain domain of the individual\u2019s life (e.g. \u201cRelationships with your friends\u201d) over the past month.<\/p>\n<p>The self-report version of the scale can be used by individuals between the ages of 8 to 18. There is a therapist-complete version that can be administered in-session with a child. A parent\/caregiver version has also been developed; although, this measures has not been empirically validated. The CPSS-5 can be used to measure changes in PTSD symptoms and assess for childhood and adolescent PTSD diagnoses.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span class=\"wysiwyg-underline\">Psychometric Properties of the CPSS-5<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The CPSS-5 demonstrates excellent internal consistency (\u03b1s = .92) and good test-retest reliability (r = .80) for its total score. It also demonstrates good convergent validity and discriminant validity with the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) and Child Depression Inventory (CDI).<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/28820616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/28820616<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS-5) Recommended\u00a0frequency: Every 4 weeks Summary The Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS-5) is a 27-item measure that evaluates posttraumatic symptom severity in children and adolescents based on DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. There are two parts to the scale. The first part of the scale consists of 20 items [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-assessment-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}