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SACHS Scoring and Interpretation

This document provides a rating scale for determining a subject's degree of disturbance across 15 categories related to attitudes and feelings. The ratings are on a scale of 0 to 2, with 0 indicating no disturbance, 1 indicating mild disturbance, and 2 indicating severe disturbance.

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SACHS Scoring and Interpretation

This document provides a rating scale for determining a subject's degree of disturbance across 15 categories related to attitudes and feelings. The ratings are on a scale of 0 to 2, with 0 indicating no disturbance, 1 indicating mild disturbance, and 2 indicating severe disturbance.

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Interpretation

Rating Scales Used to Determine the Subject’s Degree of Disturbance


2 Severely disturbed. Appears to require therapeutic aid in handling emotional
conflicts in this area.
1 Mildly disturbed. Has emotional conflicts in this area but appears able to handle
them without therapeutic aid.
0 No significant disturbance noted in this area.
X Unknown. Insufficient evidence,

SACK’S SENTENCE RATING SHEET


Time Began: Time Finished:
Name: Sex: Age: Date:
Instructions: On the basis of your clinical judgment, taking into account such factors as
inappropriate responses, dysphoric references, and manifestations of conflict, rate the
SSCT responses of the subject in the fifteen categories listed below, according to the
following scale:
Rating:
ATTITUDE TOWARDS MOTHER
14. My mother
29. My mother and I
44. I think that most mother
59. I like my mother but
Interpretative Summary:

2 = Completely rejects and depreciates mother whom he considers over demanding.


1 = Sees mother’s fault but accepts and tolerates differences.
0 = express only positive feelings towards the mother.

ATTITUDE TOWARDS FATHER Rating:


1.I feel that my father seldom
16. If my father would only
31. I wish my father
46. I feel that my father is
Interpretative Summary:

2 = feels extreme hostility and contempt with overt death wishes.


1 = admires father but wishes that their relationship were closer.
0 = expresses complete satisfaction with father’s personality.

ATTITUDE TOWARDS FAMILY UNIT Rating:


12. Compared with most families, mine
27. My family treats me like
42. Most families I know
57. When I was a child, my family
Interpretative Summary:

2 = feels rejected by the family which lacks solidarity and which has constantly contended with
difficulties.
1 = aware that the family does not recognize him as a mature person but has no difficulty in
relating with them.
0 = instability of the family domicile has had little effect on his favorable feeling towards them.

ATTITUDE TOWARDS WOMEN/MEN Rating:


10. My idea of a perfect woman/man
25. I think most girls/boys
40. I believe most women/men
55. What I like least about women/men
Interpretative Summary:

2 = extremely suspicious, possible homosexual tendency


1 = high ideas but ambivalent feelings.
0 = only minor or superficial criticisms

ATTITUDE TOWARD HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP Rating:


11. When I see a man and a woman together
26. My feeling about married life is
41. If I had sex relations
56. My sex life
Interpretative Summary:

2 = appears to have given up achieving good sexual adjustment


1 = deserved sexual experiences but reservation about his ability to maintain marital
relationship.
0 = indicates satisfaction towards this area

ATTITUDE TOWARD FRIENDS AND ACQUIANTANCES Rating:


8.I feel that a real friend
23. I don't like people who
38. The people I like best
53. When I'm not around, my friends
Interpretative Summary:

2 = suspicious and apparently seclusive


1= seems to wait approval of others before committing himself emotionally
0 = express mutual relationship with friends and self

ATTITUDE TOWARD SUPERIORS AT WORK OR SCHOOL Rating:


6.The men over me
21. In school, my teachers
36. When I see the boss coming
51. People whom I consider my superior
Interpretative Summary:

2 = resents or fear authority


1 = mild difficulty in accepting difficulty of relating with them
0=

ATTITUDE TOWARD PEOPLE SUPERVISED Rating:


4.If I were in charge
19. If people work for me
34. The people who work for me
48. In giving orders to others, I
Interpretative Summary:

2 = feels he can handle or control hostility in handling others


1 = feels capable of doing good supervisory but has misgivings about assuming an authoritarian
role.
0 = feels controllable and well accepted by subordinates.

ATTITUDE TOWARD COLLEAGUES AT WORK OR SCHOOL Rating:


13. At work, I get along best with
28. Those I work with are
43. I like working with people who
58. People who work with me usually
Interpretative Summary:

2 = feels rejected by colleagues, and condemns them


1 = has some difficulty at work and depends on colleagues
0 = expresses good mutual feelings

FEARS Rating:
2.I know it is silly, but I am afraid of
22. Most of my friends don't know that I am afraid of
37. I wish I lose the fear of
52. My fears sometimes force me to
Interpretative Summary:

2 = disturbed by the apparent fear of loving, possibility to control his feelings


1 = fear of self-assertion which is fairly common and not pervasive.
0 = lack of fear
GUILT FEELINGS Rating:
15. I would do anything to forget the time I
30. My greatest mistake was
45. When I was younger, I felt guilty about
60.The worst thing I ever did
Interpretative Summary:
2 = concerned with spiritual feeling and physical sex drives
1 = has regret over past and seems mildly disturbed by his failure to control his trouble.
0 = does not seem to be aware of guilt feelings

ATTITUDE TOWARD OWN ABILITIES Rating:


2.When the odds are against me
17. I believe that I have the ability to
32. My greatest weakness is
47. When luck turns against me
Interpretative Summary:

2 = feels completely incompetent and hopeless


1 = feels he has a specific ability but tends to fear difficulty
0 = confident on his ability to overcome obstacles

ATTITUDE TOWARD PAST Rating:


9. When I was a child
24. During my childhood
39. If I were young again
54. My most vivid childhood memory
Interpretative Summary:

2 = feels rejected and isolated


1=
0 = feels well adjusted, no significant disturbance in the past

ATTITUDE TOWARD FUTURE Rating:


5.To me the future looks
20. I look forward to
35. Someday, I
50. When I am older
Interpretative Summary:

2 = pessimistic, no hope in his own resources for happiness and success


1 = unsure of himself but tries to be optimistic
0 = seems confident in achieving his goals

GOALS Rating:
3.I always wanted to
18. I could be perfectly happy if
33. My secret ambition in life
49. What I want most out of life
Interpretative Summary:

2 = lack of motivation for achievement


1 = desires material things for family as well as for himself
0=

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