Harvard T Scale

PART I. EVENTS

Please check the blank spaces when it applies:

E = experienced W = witnessed H= heard about it

EVENTS E W H No

1. Lack of food / water

2. Ill health without access to medical care

3. Lack of shelter

4. Imprisonment

5. Serious injury

6. Combat situation

7. Brainwashing

8. Rape or sexual abuse

9. Forced isolation from others

10. Being close to death

11. Forced separation from family members

12. Murder of family or friend

13. Unnatural death of family or friends

14. Murder of stranger

15. Lost or kidnapped

16. Torture

17. Any other situation that was very frightening

or life endangering to you

Total:
PART II. SYMPTOMS
Please check when it applies:

SYMPTOMS 1 2 3 4

1) Recurrent thoughts of the most hurtful or terrifying event

2) Feeling as though the event is happening again

3) Recurrent nightmares

4) Feeling detached or withdrawn from others

5) Unable to feel emotions

6) Feeling jumpy, or easily startled

7) Difficulty concentrating

8) Trouble sleeping
9) Feeling on guard

10) Feeling irritable or having outburst of anger

11) Avoiding activities that remind me of the traumatic or hurtful

event

12) Inability to remember parts of the most hurtful/traumatic

events

13) Less interest in daily activities

14) Feeling as if I don’t have a future

15) Avoiding thoughts or feelings associated with the traumatic /

hurtful events

16) Sudden emotional or physical reaction when reminded of

them most hurtful or traumatic events

17) Feeling that people don’t understand what happened to me

18) Difficulty performing work/ daily task

19) Blaming myself for things that have happened

20) Feeling guilty for having survived

21) Hopelessness

22) Feeling ashamed of the hurtful or traumatic events that have

happened to me

23) Spending time thinking about why these things happened to

me

24) Feeling as if I am crazy

25) Feeling that I am the only one who suffered these events

26) Feeling others are hostile towards me

27) Feeling that I have no one to rely on

28) Finding out or being told by others that I have done

something that I cannot remember

29) Feeling as if I am split into two people and one of me is

watching what the other is doing

30) Feeling someone I trusted betrayed me

Total
Total raw score: _____ Overall score:_____