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PCL-C

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist

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The PTSD Checklist (PCL) is a self-report questionnaire that measures symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The PCL was first developed during the 1990s by Frank Weathers and colleagues at the National Center for PTSD (Weathers et al. 1993) and recently revised. The current version (PCL-5; Blevins et al. 2015; Weathers et al. 2013b) is a 20-item questionnaire with items corresponding to the 20 PTSD symptoms (Criteria B-E) in the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013). Items 1–5 reflect intrusive reexperiencing symptoms (Criteria B), items 6–7 reflect avoidance symptoms (Criteria C), items 8–14 reflect negative mood and cognition symptoms (Criteria D), and items 15–20 reflect hyperarousal symptoms (Criteria E) (Blevins et al. 2015). Respondents rate the degree to which each symptom has bothered them within past month on a 5-point...

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Silva, M.A. (2017). PCL-C. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_9235-1

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