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Purpose
Measures the strength of the child-rearing alliance between parents
Authors
Richard R. Abidin, EdD, and Timothy R. Konold, PhD
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Get a Clear Picture of How Effectively Parents Cooperate, Communicate, and Care for Their Children
The PAM assesses the parenting aspects of a couple’s relationship and provides you with each parent’s perception of the strength of their parenting alliance—how cooperative, communicative, and mutually respectful they are with regard to caring for their children.
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Features and benefits
- Appropriate for a variety of parenting partners (married, divorced, unmarried, and more) for parents of children ages 1 to 19 years.
- Useful as a screening and diagnostic instrument for family counseling, joint custody evaluations, identification of dysfunctional parenting skills, and assessing the impact of intervention.
- The PAM contains 20 items that are written at a 3rd-grade reading level.
- Standardized on 1,224 parents of children from the general population and a clinical sample of 272 parents of children diagnosed with ADHD, CD, ODD, or other problems.
- Internal consistency of .97; test-retest reliability has been measured at .80.
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