The first comprehensive instrument measuring how stress and trauma impact children in a school-based setting from the teacher’s perspective, the FACT Teacher Form allows school psychologists to formulate targeted interventions that better meet kids’ needs.

Features and benefits

• Quantifies the impact of traumatic experiences on school-based functioning in order to help you generate specific interventions.
• Completed by a classroom teacher or other educator familiar with the student’s typical behavior and day-to-day functioning.
• Evaluates both academic functioning and resiliency in the same measure.
• Demonstrates strong evidence of reliability and validity.
• Four clinical scales (Behavior, Emotional, Physiological, Academic), one index (Trauma Index), and a supplemental Resiliency scale paint a broad picture of students’ functioning. Two validity scales are also provided.
• Critical items are included to help identify children who may need immediate follow-up or intervention.
• Designed for use by educational diagnosticians, school counselors, school psychologists, school nurses, community mental health providers, school administrators, and pediatricians.
• Administered exclusively through PARiConnect.
• An e-Manual provides detailed administration and scoring instructions, along with psychometric data and rationale for publishing.
• This edition can be used immediately by teachers while development of the full instrument, which will include a Parent Form and Self-Report Form, is ongoing.
• Developed by noted school psychologist and educational neuropsychologist Steven G. Feifer, DEd.