Without screening, trauma histories and related symptoms often go undetected, which can lead health care professionals to target services associated with symptoms without fully understanding the whole picture. Screening for trauma history and trauma-related symptoms can help identify children and adolescents at risk of developing more pervasive and severe symptoms of traumatic stress. Screening, early identification, and intervention serves as an important prevention strategy. This resource provides a review of twenty nine child and adolescent trauma screening tools including the title, acronym, year of publication, number of items, ages, respondents, language, considerations, approaches and empirical evidence. This resource was created in connection with the California Screening Assessment and Treatment (CASAT) Initiative, Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego Chadwick Center for Children and Families.
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