When It Is Used
Use it for baseline assessment or monitoring points during prolonged exposure care for PTSD symptoms.
PTSD Symptom Assessment / PCL-5
PTSD Symptom Assessment / PCL-5 is a ready-to-send standardized PTSD symptom assessment for practitioners monitoring clients in prolonged exposure care. It helps practitioners collect symptom ratings, review an overall severity score/profile when scoring rules are supplied, and compare repeated assessments across treatment points.
Explore baseline and follow-up setup, sample client completion, and practitioner review before saving it.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Shows
When instrument content and scoring rules are supplied, the review shows overall score/profile, elevated or changing areas supported by the structure, and repeated-score comparison.
Limitations
The tool does not invent item wording, scoring rules, symptom clusters, severity thresholds, diagnostic conclusions, or exposure plan recommendations.
Can the demo calculate a real PCL-5 score?
Only when the standardized item wording, response anchors, and scoring rules are supplied. Without them, scoring remains unresolved.
What happens if an item is incomplete?
Incomplete score-bearing items prevent final scoring, but partial responses can remain saved for resume.
Does the assessment diagnose PTSD?
No. It produces a symptom score/profile for practitioner review and does not make diagnostic conclusions.