Psychosocial Assessment Tools for Children and Adults

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

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- Spitzer RL, Kroenke K; Williams JBW, Lowe B. A Brief Measure for Assessing generalized Anxiety Disorder. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Arch Inern Med., 2006, p 166.

- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. GAD-7 Assessment. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, p. 1-4.

- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Primary Care PTSD Screen (PC-PTSD), Prins, Ouimette, & Kimerling, 2003, p. 1.

Update
Screening for PTSD and TBI
in Veterans using Routine Clinical
Laboratory Blood Tests

- Xu, M., Lin, Z., Siegel, C. E., Laska, E. M., Abu-Amara, D., Genfi, A., Newman, J., Jeffers, M. K., Blessing, E. M., Flanagan, S. R., Fossati, S., Etkin, A., & Marmar, C. R. (2023). Screening for PTSD and TBI in Veterans using Routine Clinical Laboratory Blood Tests. Translational psychiatry, 13(1), 64.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article References:
Aralis, H. J., Macera, C. A., Rauh, M. J., & MacGregor, A. J. (2014). Traumatic brain injury and PTSD screening efforts evaluated using latent class analysis. Rehabilitation Psychology, 59(1), 68–78.

Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2021). PTSD symptoms, daily subjective age, and psychological distress in community-dwelling older adults. GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry.

Kröger, C., & Kliem, S. (2014). Screening for posttraumatic stress disorder: Comparison of the diagnostic efficiency of two self-rating measures. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 30(2), 93–99.

Penney, D., El-Baalbaki, G., & Lepage, M. (2021). Exploring the factor structure of the PTSD checklist for DSM–5 in psychotic disorders. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Polizzi, C. P., Aksen, D. E., & Lynn, S. J. (2021). Quality of life, emotion regulation, and dissociation: Evaluating unique relations in an undergraduate sample and probable PTSD subsample. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Weinberg, A., Kotov, R., & Proudfit, G. H. (2015). Neural indicators of error processing in generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and major depressive disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124(1), 172–185. 

Online Continuing Education QUESTION 6
How is GAD-7 administered? Record the letter of the correct answer the CEU Test.