PCL-M (PTSD Checklist - Military Version)
   
 

Instructions: Below is a list of problems and complaints that veterans sometimes have as a response to stressful military experiences. Please read each one carefully, then circle one of the numbers to the right to indicate how much you have been bothered by that problem in the past month.
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Instructions for PCL-M Scoring

 

Not

at all

A little

bit

 

Moderately

Quite

a bit

 

Extremely

1.       Repeated, disturbing memories, thoughts, or images of a stressful military experience?

1

2

3

4

5

2.       Repeated, disturbing dreams of a stressful military experience?

1

2

3

4

5

3.       Suddenly acting or feeling as if a stressful military experience were happening again (as if you were reliving it)?

1

2

3

4

5

4.       Feeling very upset when something reminded you of a stressful military experience?

1

2

3

4

5

5.       Having physical reactions (e.g., heart pounding, trouble breathing, sweating) when something reminded you of a stressful military experience?

1

2

3

4

5

6.       Avoiding thinking about or talking about a stressful military experience or avoiding having feelings related to it?

1

2

3

4

5

7.       Avoiding activities or situations because they reminded you of a stressful military experience?

1

2

3

4

5

8.       Trouble remembering important parts of a stressful military experience?

1

2

3

4

5

9.       Loss of interest in activities that you used to enjoy?

1

2

3

4

5

10.   Feeling distant or cut off from other people?

1

2

3

4

5

11.   Feeling emotionally numb or being unable to have loving feelings for those close to you?

1

2

3

4

5

12.   Feeling as if your future somehow will be cut short?

1

2

3

4

5

13.   Trouble falling or staying asleep?

1

2

3

4

5

14.   Feeling irritable or having angry outbursts?

1

2

3

4

5

15.   Having difficulty concentrating?

1

2

3

4

5

16.   Being “superalert” or watchful or on guard?

1

2

3

4

5

17.   Feeling jumpy or easily startled?

1

2

3

4

5

PCL-M for DSM-IV (11/1/94)  Weathers, Litz, Huska, & Keane  National Center for PTSD - Behavioral Science Division

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