Checklist of Sexual Abuse and Related Stressors

The C-SARS was developed to measure stress associated with sexual victimization during childhood or adolescence. It assesses for the occurrence of 70 stressful events related to sexual abuse. Events include not only those events associated with the actual abuse but perpetrator behaviors that set the stage for the event (e.g., inducements, manipulations, threats), events that occur as a consequence of the abuse (e.g., disruptions in family relationships, disbelief of children's disclosures), and events that occur as a consequence of public disclosure of abuse (e.g., intrusive encounters with social service, police, and legal professionals). The measure yields a total scale as well as scores for three event categories and their subscales: 1. Abuse Events (Negative Coercion, Inducements, Violations of Trust, Stigmatizing Messages) 2. Related Events (Family/Conflict/Dysfunction, Loss of Social Contacts, Non-Supportive Responses to Disclosure) 3. Public Disclosure Events (Spaccarelli, 1995)