The Trauma-Informed Climate Scale-10 (TICS-10): A Reduced Measure of Staff Perceptions of the Service Environment

Travis Hales; Nancy Kusmaul; Stephanie Sundborg; Thomas Nochajski

doi:10.1080/23303131.2019.1671928

The Trauma-Informed Climate Scale-10 (TICS-10): A Reduced Measure of Staff Perceptions of the Service Environment

Travis Hales
, Nancy Kusmaul
, Stephanie Sundborg
, Thomas Nochajski

School of Social Work

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Portland State University

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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).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	443-453
Number of pages	11
Journal	Human Service Organizations Management, Leadership and Governance
Volume	43
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2019.1671928
State	Published - Oct 20 2019

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leadership and organizational change
management
organizational and management theory and analysis
workforce/workplace issues in human service organizations

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