General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 321-327 , May 2010

The Child Stress Disorders Checklist-Short Form: a four-item scale of traumatic stress symptoms in children

  • Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Children's Hospital Boston, 21 Autumn St, 1st Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Tel.: +1 617 919 4680; fax: +1 617 730 0759.
    • ,
  • Nancy Kassam-Adams, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • ,
  • Glenn Saxe, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Received 4 August 2009 ,Accepted 11 January 2010.

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☆ The research was supported by NIMH grant R01 MH57370 and SAMHSA grant U79 SM54305 to Dr. Saxe. During the preparation of this manuscript, Dr. Bosquet Enlow was supported by K08MH074588.

PII: S0163-8343(10)00010-1

doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2010.01.009

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 321-327 , May 2010

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