ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child Version

Date

2009

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Publisher

Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal

Abstract

In 2009, ISPCAN collaborated with UNICEF, the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence against Children, the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, and the World Health Organization to develop the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tools (ICAST). The ICAST is a measure to assess child abuse prevalence and frequency, and is used worldwide in various countries. There are three versions of the ICAST tool: a child version for ages 11-18 (ICAST-C), a parent version (ICAST-P) and a young adults’ retrospective version (ICAST-R). The questionnaires and manuals were updated in 2015, and are currently available in English, Russian and Spanish. ICAST-C (Children) is a 69-item self-assessment instrument for children over 11 years of age. This instrument is to be administered to a group of children at the same time so that individual children’s answers are anonymous. There are two versions of the ICAST-C: ICAST-CI (Institutional) and ICAST-CH (Home version). The ICAST-CI measures victimization in school or other institutional environments. The ICAST-CH measures a child’s current (past-year) and lifetime exposure to physical, emotional and sexual abuse, neglect, domestic violence and community violence. The tools can be completed by the participants themselves or by a practitioner. The ICAST-C was validated in 2009 by researchers from 10 countries and was proven to demonstrate feasibility as a strategy to assess child victimization. (CVR Abstract)

Description

Cost: Yes
Training: Yes
Number of Items: 69

Keywords

Child Abuse, Screening Tool, Purpose: Detection, Administration Method: Self-Administered, Administration Method: Practitioner-Administered, Population: Youth, Domain: Child Abuse, Domain: Physical Abuse, Domain: Verbal Abuse, Domain: Sexual Abuse, Domain: Emotional Abuse, Domain: Neglect, Domain: Physical Violence, Domain: Emotional Violence, Domain: Sexual Violence

Citation

Zolotor, A. J., Runyan, D. K., Dunne, M. P., Jain, D., Péturs, H. R., Ramirez, C., … Isaeva, O. (2009). ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool Children’s Version (ICAST-C): Instrument development and multi-national pilot testing. Child Abuse & Neglect, 33(11), 833–841. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2009.09.004 

URI

https://www.ispcan.org/learn/icast-abuse-screening-tools/
 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11990/2154

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Collections

Screening and Assessment Collection