Development and psychometric evaluation of a new assessment method for childhood maltreatment experiences: The interview for traumatic events in childhood (ITEC)
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Participants
The pilot ITEC was administered to 362 adults, including patients from several psychiatric hospitals (20.7%, n = 75), community mental health centres (51.6%, n = 188), TBS-clinics (4%, n = 14) and prisons (3.7%, n = 13) in the Netherlands and Belgium, and non-patients (20%, n = 72). TBS clinics are part of the Dutch forensic system and refer to forensic psychiatric hospitals for the residential treatment of mentally disordered offenders who are sentenced by criminal court to involuntary admission because
Study II
During the administration of the pilot ITEC, some participants reported maltreatment events and perpetrators that were not specified in the pilot ITEC. Therefore, for Study II, a new version of the ITEC was constructed. In this new version, several new events and perpetrators of childhood maltreatment were added. Moreover, in line with previous studies that stressed the importance of witnessing abusive events in the development of psychopathology (Glodich, 1998, Luster et al., 2002), witnessing
General discussion
To our knowledge, this is the first validation study of a trauma interview for childhood events to examine so many different aspects of reliability and validity. The findings provide initial support for the reliability and validity of the ITEC. A five-factor model consisting of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, emotional and physical neglect underlay the maltreatment reports when only victimization items were included in Study I. When several new items were added to the ITEC (Study II), the
Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to Veron Dings, Josephine Giesen-Bloo, Simkje Sieswerda and Anoek Weertman who gave permission to use their data, and to Silke Janssen and Arnt Schellekens for their help in collecting the data.
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