Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ)

View information and ordering instructions for the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire, a checklist available in English, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Japanese, Croatian and Bosnian that inquiries about emotional symptoms considered to be associated with trauma.

Power and Control Wheel for Immigrant Woman (English and Spanish)

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7), Spanish

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7), English

Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)

Beck Depression Inventory in Spanish

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Resources from Georgetown University, Center for Trauma and the Community

• TRAUMA HISTORY QUESTIONNAIRE (THQ)

The development, use, and psychometric properties of the Trauma History Questionnaire.  (full text) Hooper, L. M., Stockton, P., Krupnick, J., & Green, B. L. (2011). The development, use, and psychometric properties of the Trauma History Questionnaire. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 16, 258-283.

     THQ Available in English, Spanish, Danish, French, Portuguese, Urdu, Icelandic

• STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS SCREENING QUESTIONNAIRE (SLESQ)​

Evaluating the cultural validity of the Stressful Life Events Questionnaire. Green, B.L., Chung, J.Y., Daroowalla, A., Kaltman, S., & DeBenedictis, C. (2006). Violence against Women, 12, 1191-1213.
Assessing traumatic event exposure: General issues and preliminary findings for the Stressful Life Events Screening Questionnaire. Goodman, L., Corcoran, C., Turner, K., Yuan, N., & Green, B.L. (1998). Journal of Traumatic Stress , 11 , 521-42.

Assessment Instruments Developed by Others

• PTSD CHECKLIST

Information about post-traumatic stress disorder as well as assessment instruments for trauma and PTSD can be accessed through the National Center for PTSD  

PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)

PCL-5 (in Spanish)

• PHQ, PHQ9

These instruments can be accessed at the following site: Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) Screeners  in many languages

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Mental health instruments in non-English languages: Victorian Transcultural Mental Health

General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE); General Self-Efficacy Scale (available in 33 languages) 
The Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale is a 10-item psychometric scale designed to assess optimistic self-beliefs to cope with a variety of difficult demands in life. The scale has been used in many studies with ten thousands of participants. In contrast to other scales that were designed to assess optimism, this one explicitly refers to personal agency, i.e., the belief that one’s actions are responsible for successful outcomes. The scale is available in 29 languages.

Hamilton Scale: Greek version from Psycho MedNet HELLAS
Mednet Hellas is a project of the Athens Medical Society which aims to offer information services to Greek Medical professionals, advance the communication between Greek doctors wherever they live and practice and promoting Greek Medicine all over the World.
Note: No foreign fonts are necessary, but you will need to download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print the documents.

Kessler 10 measure
The Kessler (K10) measure is a 10-item self-report questionnaire intended to yield a global measure of “psychological distress” based on questions about the level of anxiety and depressive symptoms in the most recent 4-week period.  The Kessler 10 brochure provides information about the Kessler 10 questionnaire. Both are available in 14 languages.

Mental health instruments in non-English languages: Research literature
A VTPU project to identify translations of psychiatric assessment instruments reported in the research literature, carried out by Anne Gordon and Steven Klimidis. The preamble provides a description of how the references were obtained, and a link to the table of instruments by languages.

Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE): Multilingual versions
A commentary on clinical use and bibliography of versions in languages other than English. Literature referring to the Mini Mental State Examination in different language groups was examined and presented as a bibliography of research using different language versions of this instrument.

PRIME-MD in Greek, Italian and Vietnamese
The PRIME-MD is a two-part questionnaire designed to aid the diagnosis of mental disorders in general practice. The Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit, with support from the copyright holder, Pfizer Pty. Ltd., has translated this instrument into three community languages. No foreign fonts are necessary, but you will need to download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print the documents.

Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
The SDQ is a brief behavioural screening questionnaire about 3-16 year olds, available in multiple languages.

PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)

View information and download The PCL-5 a screening tool, created by the Veteran Affairs National Center for PTSD that is used to screen for PTSD, make a provisional PTSD diagnosis, and monitor symptoms changes.

The Refugee Health Screener-15

View this resource for background information, guidelines for use, and a link The Refugee Health Screener-15 (RHS-15) Packet. This is a tool that can be used to screen refugees for emotional stress and mental health.

Spanish Version

Mexican Spanish Version

(Also available in Arabic, Nepali, Karen, Burmese, Russian, Somali (other languages planned for translation in 2012: Tigrinya, Ki-Swahili, and Farsi)

Slides for webinar:

“Operationalizing the RHS-15, Creating Pathways for Refugee Services to Heal” (includes scoring)

Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)

CAPS(link is external) is a highly-regarded instrument developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD. To obtain this scale in its original version, complete the online request form(link is external) at the VA website. A version for children and adolescents is available. An Arabic translation is available from our colleagues at Wayne State’s Trauma Recovery Center(link is external).

Hopkins Symptom Checklist

The Hopkins Symptom Checklist 25(link is external) is a common mental health evaluation tool. It was originally developed by Parloff, Kelman, and Frank at Johns Hopkins University, and reduced to its 25-item version by Karl Rickels. Bosnian, Cambodian, Croatian, Japanese, Laotian, and Vietnamese are also available. HealTorture.org colleagues at the Heartland Alliance’s Marjorie Kovler Center(link is external) (5 HSCL 25- Arabic), and the International Counseling & Community Services(link is external) at LCSNW (Arabic_3_Hopkins CL25_Final) have developed Arabic versions.

Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale

The Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS)(link is external) is a 49-item self-report measure recommended for use in clinical or research settings to measure severity of PTSD symptoms related to a single identified traumatic event.

Projective tools