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Purpose
Identifies stressful areas in parent–adolescent interactions in parents of adolescents ages 11-19 years
Authors
Peter L. Sheras, PhD, and Richard R. Abidin, EdD; Professional Manual by Peter L. Sheras, PhD, Richard R. Abidin, EdD, and Timothy R. Konold, PhD
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Additional Details
Parent Stress Screening Instrument for Interactions with Adolescents Aged 11 to 19 Years
The SIPA is a screening and diagnostic instrument that identifies areas of stress in parent–adolescent interactions, allowing examination of the relationship of parenting stress to adolescent characteristics, parent characteristics, the quality of the adolescent–parent interactions, and stressful life circumstances.
Features and benefits
- Areas of parent-focused inspection include life restrictions, relationship with spouse/partner, social alienation, and incompetence/guilt.
- Areas of adolescent-focused inspection include moodiness/emotional lability, social isolation/withdrawal, delinquency/antisocial, and failure to achieve or persevere.
- Useful for family counseling, forensic evaluations for adolescent custody, identification of dysfunctional parent-adolescent systems, prevention programs designed to reduce parental stress, and intervention and treatment planning in high stress areas.
- The SIPA (along with the PDDBI, PSI-4-SF, and SRS-2) meet the requirements for ABA therapists working with autism patients who have federal health insurance (i.e., TRICARE).
- This upward age extension of the third edition of the Parenting Stress Index (PSI-3) contains 112 items and is written at a fifth-grade reading level.
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FAQs
What is the technical information of the SIPA™?
Technical
- Normative data were derived from 778 parents of adolescents from the general population and a clinical sample of 159 parents of adolescents who had received a DSM-IV diagnosis.
- Internal consistency coefficients range from .80 to .90.
- Test-retest reliability coefficients for the subscales range from .74 to .91.
Is the SIPA™ approved by TRICARE’s Autism Care Demonstration (ACD) program?
Yes. The Stress Index for Parents of Adolescents (SIPA™) is a standardized, reliable measure of stress and family dynamics that helps to identify where additional support resources may benefit both the family and the beneficiary. Under the ACD, ABA providers must submit SIPA scores every 6 months for all enrolled beneficiaries ages 11 years through 19 years and 11 months. For beneficiaries ages 11-12 years at the time of authorization/reauthorization, either the PSI-4-SF or SIPA will be accepted. With beneficiaries ages 13 years and older, the SIPA will be accepted.
The PDDBI and the SRS-2 are also approved by the ACD program.
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