Trauma symptom inventory

The Trauma Symptom Inventory (TSI) is a Psychological evaluation/assessment instrument that taps symptoms of Posttraumatic stress disorder and other posttraumatic emotional problems. It was originally published in 1995 [1] by its developer, John Briere. It is one of the most widely used measures of posttraumatic symptomatology.[2]

The TSI is relatively unique in comparison to other measures of posttraumatic symptomatology, in that it is a multi-scale instrument, including 10 scales of various forms of clinical psychopathology related to psychological trauma. Also unique, it has three validity scales in order to assess the trauma victim's test-taking attitude, such as overreporting, underreporting and inconsistency; however, research demonstrates that the TSI does not achieve excellent accuracy in detecting the Malingering of posttraumatic stress disorder from genuine PTSD.[3]

Original psychometric data on the TSI demonstrated adequate internal consistency (alphas ranging from .84 to .87).[4] Validity with a civilian trauma-exposed sample has been demonstrated, with substantial relationships found between the TSI's clinical scale scores and other established measures of PTSD.[5] Further corroboration of the TSI's psychometric properties, with trauma-exposed military veterans, was recently documented.[6]

More recently, a second edition of the TSI was published (TSI-2),[7] with limited research investigating its performance thus far.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Briere, J. (1995). Trauma Symptom Inventory professional manual. Psychological Assessment Resources.
  2. ↑ Elhai, J. D., Gray, M. J., Kashdan, T. B., & Franklin, C. L. "Which instruments are most commonly used to assess traumatic event exposure and posttraumatic effects?: A survey of traumatic stress professionals". Journal of Traumatic Stress 18: 541–545. doi:10.1002/jts.20062. PMID 16281252.
  3. ↑ Elhai, J. D., Gray, M. J., Naifeh, J. A., Butcher, J. J., Davis, J. L., Falsetti, S. A., & Best, C. L. "Utility of the Trauma Symptom Inventory's Atypical Response Scale in detecting malingered post-traumatic stress disorder". Assessment 12: 210–219. doi:10.1177/1073191105275456. PMID 15914722.
  4. ↑ Briere, J., Elliott, D. M., Harris, K., & Cotman, A. "Trauma Symptom Inventory: Psychometrics and association with childhood and adult victimization in clinical samples". Journal of Interpersonal Violence 10: 387–401. doi:10.1177/088626095010004001.
  5. ↑ McDevitt-Murphy, M. E., Weathers, F. W., & Adkins, J. W. "The use of the Trauma Symptom Inventory in the assessment of PTSD symptoms". Journal of Traumatic Stress 18: 63–67. doi:10.1002/jts.20003.
  6. ↑ Snyder, J. J., Elhai, J. D., North, T. C., & Heaney, C. J. "Reliability and validity of the Trauma Symptom Inventory with veterans evaluated for posttraumatic stress disorder". Psychiatry Research 170: 256–261. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2008.11.008.
  7. ↑ Briere, J. (2011). Trauma Symptom Inventory-2 professional manual. Psychological Assessment Resources.
  8. ↑ Gray, M. J., Elhai, J. D., & Briere, J. "Evaluation of the Atypical Response Scale of the Trauma Symptom Inventory-2 in detecting simulated posttraumatic stress disorder". Journal of Anxiety Disorders 24: 447–451. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.02.011.
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