Feifer Assessment of Childhood Trauma™ [FACT]
Measures how stress and trauma impact students in a school-based setting
For Ages: 4 years to 18 years
Administration Time: 10 minutes
Format: Online administration and scoring via PARiConnect online platform
Author: Steven G. Feifer, DEd
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FACT online E-Manual
12235-EM
Online manual available in PARiConnect online account. Limited to one user only.
FACT online i-Admin/Score Report (each) min order 5
12239-IK
Price is per use for 1 i-Admin (Teacher, Parent, or Self-Report) and 1 Score Report (Teacher, Parent, or Self-Report). Choose form in PARiConnect.
FACT Professional Manual
12234-TM
Physical book.
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Quickly Measure How Stress and Trauma Are Impacting Students’ Academic, Behavioural, Emotional, and Physiological Functioning in a School Environment
The FACT is the first and only instrument measuring how stress and trauma impact students in a school-based setting. It guides clinicians in formulating targeted interventions that better meet the needs of students.
The FACT is different from other measures in that its focus is HOW stress and trauma impacts academic, behavioural, emotional, and physiological functioning in a school-based setting. The Score Report with Recommendations provides resources to aid your preparation of 504 recommendations and Individualized Education Program (IEP) accommodations, and to screen children within a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) delivery model.
Features and benefits
- Designed for use by educational diagnosticians, school counsellors, school psychologists, neuropsychologists, school nurses, community mental health providers, school administrators, and paediatricians.
- Quantifies the impact, rather than the source, of traumatic experiences on school-based functioning in order to help you generate specific interventions.
- Four clinical impact scales (Physiological Impact, Emotional Impact, Academic Impact, Behavioural Impact), one index (Total Trauma), and a four clusters (Resiliency, Anxiety, Depression, Inattention) paint a broad picture of students’ functioning. Two validity scales are also provided.
- The Total Trauma index captures overall functioning in a school environment, while scales target specific areas and clusters focus on mental health concerns that might benefit from further evaluation.
- Useful as part of an evaluation for emotional disturbance.
- The FACT includes a Resiliency cluster that focuses on positive attributes and the presence of protective factors.
- Parent, Teacher, and Self-Report Forms are available.
- Critical items are included to help identify children in need of immediate follow-up.
- Administration options are flexible:
- Administer digitally via PARiConnect and receive immediate scoring and report generation.
- Administer via printed form and transfer scores into PARiConnect to generate a Score Report with Recommendations.
- The Score Report with Recommendations includes scores and lists of recommendations for implementation both at home and at school.
- The e-Manual (also available in print) provides information on the role of stress and trauma in academic settings, appropriate uses and general applications for the FACT, directions for administration and interpretation, and data on reliability and validity.
- Developed by noted school psychologist and educational neuropsychologist Steven G. Feifer, DEd.
Yes. Any existing inventory of i-Admins and reports were automatically moved to the new item number within PARiConnect.
No. Prior to the transition, customers were alerted to the need to download and save any FACT Teacher Form reports in their account. Old reports were deleted from the system when the full FACT was released.
As the norms and structure of the FACT have changed, you will need to reference the new manual going forward. Customers who purchased an e-Manual prior to the transition received a complimentary new e-Manual in their digital library within PARiConnect.
As author Steven Feifer says, “A child can’t learn if they don’t feel safe.” Other trauma measures help you determine whether trauma has occurred and the nature of that trauma. The FACT focuses on the impact of stress and trauma on the student in an academic environment, and results provide insight into how stress and trauma are impacting academic, behavioral, emotional, and physiological functioning at school.
The results of the FACT can be useful when you are planning for IEP accommodations, making 504 recommendations, and screening children as part of a MTSS delivery model.
Yes, the FACT can be administered more than once to the same student. An interval of 4 weeks between administrations is recommended. Information about reliable change is provided in the FACT manual.
