The Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES): Validity as a Screening Instrument for PTSD

— filed under:

The link address is: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=6259DBE171986576DD73C37B5FFFE66D.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=344875

CRIES is a child friendly measure designed to screen children at risk for PTSD. It has good face and construct validity, a stable factor structure, correlates well with other indices of stress. The paper discusses instruments correlation with DSM-IV and the parents’ scale ADIS-CP. Besides the major purpose of the paper it also demonstrates the ways in which other professional groups validate and use scales for children.

Alternate title: Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2005, 33, 487-498
Creator:
  • Perrin, S.
  • Meiser-Stedman, R.
  • Smith, P.
Type of resource: Article
Format: HTML
Language: English
Date added: 29 September 2009
Date last modified: 26 October 2009