Child Trauma Screen (CTS) is a brief child and adolescent trauma screening tool for child-serving practitioners. It helps clinicians, intake staff, child welfare workers, school personnel, and other providers capture child or caregiver responses about trauma exposure and PTSD-related reactions so they can decide whether fuller assessment, referral, or additional support may be warranted.
Interested in using Child Trauma Screen (CTS) with clients? Request access now.
Request access to Child Trauma Screen (CTS). Enter your email below.
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
CTS is used in child-serving settings when a practitioner needs a brief trauma exposure and PTSD-related reaction risk signal before deciding whether fuller trauma-focused assessment, treatment referral, or additional support is warranted.
The tool captures child or caregiver responses to trauma exposure and PTSD symptom items, then displays exposure signal, reaction/PTSD symptom score, respondent/source, completion status, and cutoff/referral status.
CTS is a screening tool. It does not produce a diagnosis, full trauma assessment, treatment plan, trauma narrative, or unsupported severity label.
No. The CTS is a brief trauma exposure and PTSD symptom screen that supports triage toward fuller assessment, referral, or additional support when indicated.
Yes. The product supports child/adolescent and caregiver report forms where appropriate, and results keep respondent/source visible rather than merging sources automatically.
Missing required responses produce an incomplete state. Incomplete screens are not presented as final threshold determinations unless CTS scoring rules support scoring with missing items.
The CTS tool and selected reusable setup are saved. Fictional responses, sample scores, and temporary demo notes are not saved as real client data.