A Tool for Identifying Preschoolers' Deficits in Social Competence: The Preschool Taxonomy of Problem Situations

The purpose of this article is twofold. First, the article describes the development of the Preschool Taxonomy of Problem Situations (PTOPS), a preschool age-appropriate version of the Taxonomy of Problematic Social Situations. The PTOPS is a measure of preschoolers' social competence across specific social contexts. Second, the psychometric properties of the PTOPS are examined using a clinical sample of maltreated children, a population that is...