severity rating

[Connie Horton <cbhorto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Colleagues---

As part of planning a study which involves extensive CPS record reviews, I
am looking for input on how to rate the severity of maltreatment history.
Given the breadth of the study and the length of the measure for the
caseworker to complete, we do not have the luxury of coming up with a 20
item scale for each form of maltreatment, but want to go beyond simply
"yes" and "no" for the four forms we are interested in
	neglect
	sexual abuse
	physical abuse
	exposure to domestic violence
Could somebody recommend (and/or provide a cite) for a measure which
provides a method of relatively succinctly determining, for each form of
maltreatment, whether the experience was mild, moderate, severe (or some
similar continuum)?  

Thank you.

Connie Burrows Horton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Illinois State University