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Trauma-Check - Acute: Children 0-6 years

Your child experienced a traumatic event in the past 4 weeks.

Please fill out the Trauma-Check below to check whether professional advice is recommended. Important: The trauma check is only suitable for assessing reactions and problems within the first 4 weeks after a traumatic event. If the traumatic event occurred more than 4 weeks ago, please use the Trauma-Check of the category Chronic.

In case professional advice is recommended, you can search for a mental health care specialist specialized in child and adolescent psychotraumatology nearby via the Specialist Contacts function on the Kidtrauma website or app.

In case your child shows specific reactions and problems, you get tips on how to help your child to cope with them.

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User of Trauma-Check
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Gender of your child
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Age of your child
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Country
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What country are you from?
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Below is a list of stressful events that sometimes happen. Mark the appropriate event if it happened to your child in the past 4 weeks. Mark not applicable if it didn’t happen to your child in the past 4 weeks.

Happened to your child

 

1. Accident
2. Natural Desaster
3. Physical violence
4. Sexual abuse
5. Other
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Below is a list of stressful events that sometimes happen. Mark the appropriate event if your child has seen it happening to a parent or a caregiver in the past 4 weeks. Mark not applicable in each case if you child hasn`t seen any of the events happening to a parent or a caregiver in the past 4 weeks.

Your child has seen it happening to a parent or a caregiver

6. Accident
7. Natural Desaster
8. Physical violence
9. Sexual abuse
10. Other
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Please describe if you ticked off "Other" at Happened to your child or Your child has seen it happening to parent or a caregiver:

(If you have not ticked off "Other", please click on "not applicable".)

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If you ticked off more than one event, which one is bothering your child the most now?
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Below you find a number of behaviors that preschoolers can show related to traumatic events. Please take a look at each question and indicate whether and to what extent the particular behavior occurs more often since the traumatic event. Make sure that you use the Trauma-Check not before at least 5 days have passed since the traumatic event.

Acts whiny
Wants things right away
Refuses to sleep alone
Has trouble going to bed falling asleep
Has bad dreams
Seems fearful without good reason
Seems worried
Cries without good reason
Seems sad and withdrawn
Clings to adults/doesn't want to be alone
Seems "hyperactive"
Has temper tantrums
Gets frustrated too easily
Complains about aches and pains
Acts younger than used to for age (i.e., bed-wetting, baby talk, thumb sucking)
Seems to be easily startled
Acts aggressive
Creates games, stories or pictures about the event
Brings up the event in conversation
Avoids talking about the event even when asked
Seems fearful of things that are reminders of the event
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Please mark YES or NO if the problems you marked interfered with getting along with family relationships, his/ her friends, school, being happy or having fun.
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I agree that the anonymized data can be used for scientific information.