The Trauma-Informed Climate Scale-10 (TICS-10): A Reduced Measure of Staff Perceptions of the Service Environment
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Travis Hales, Nancy Kusmaul, Stephanie Sundborg & Thomas Nochajski (2019) The Trauma-Informed Climate Scale-10 (TICS-10): A Reduced Measure of Staff Perceptions of the Service Environment, Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, DOI: 10.1080/23303131.2019.1671928
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This is the submitted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance on 2019-10-10, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23303131.2019.1671928
This is the submitted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance on 2019-10-10, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23303131.2019.1671928
Abstract
Trauma-informed climates prioritize staff and client experiences of safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and empowerment. The Trauma-Informed Climate Scale (TICS) was developed to measure staff perceptions of these values within the service environment. The aims of the current study were to create a reduced version of the original TICS and assess its psychometric properties to increase its efficiency and appropriateness in human service settings. Item retention was based on discrimination parameters, item-total correlations, and correlations with external criteria. The analytic approach yielded a 10-item scale reduction, with confirmatory factor analyses supporting the scale’s construct validity and reliability (α = .91).