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

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).

KEYWORDS:

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

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