Parent or Family Behavior/Functioning
- Alabama Parenting Style Questionnaire (APQ)
- Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
- Family Adaptation and Cohesion Scales (FACES IV)
- Adult Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI)
- Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire/Control (PARQ/Control)
What it Measures
Several dimensions of parenting that have proven to be important for understanding the causes of conduct problems and delinquency in youth.
Minimum Age
6
Maximum Age
18
Domains/Subscales
Parenting Dimensions
-Positive Reinforcement
-Parental Involvement
-Inconsistent Discipline
-Poor Monitoring and Supervision
-Harsh Discipline
Number of Items
42
Free or Cost
Free
Website for More Information
http://labs.uno.edu/developmental-psychopathology/APQ.html
Reviewer Notes
What it Measures
Screening for depression/anxiety symptoms in postpartum women in outpatient, home visiting settings, or at the 6 –8 week postpartum examination.
Minimum Age
12
Maximum Age
99
Domains/Subscales
N/A
Number of Items
10
Free or Cost
Free
Website for More Information
Reviewer Notes
What it Measures
Family cohesion and family flexibility, which are the two central dimensions of the Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems.
Minimum Age
12
Maximum Age
23
Domains/Subscales
FACES IV taps both balanced (healthy) and unbalanced (problematic) aspects of family functioning. The two balanced FACES IV scales
are balanced cohesion and the balanced flexibility. These balanced scales are very similar to cohesion and flexibility as measured by FACES II & FACES III. The new unbalanced scales are Enmeshed, Disengaged, Chaotic and Rigid. There are three scales for the Cohesion Dimension (Disengaged, Balanced Cohesion, and Enmeshed) and three scales for the Flexibility Dimension (Rigid, Balanced Flexibility and Chaotic) which can be plotted onto the Circumplex Model.
Number of Items
42
Free or Cost
$
Website for More Information
Reviewer Notes
What it Measures
The AAPI-2.5 is an inventory designed to assess the parenting and child rearing attitudes of adolescents and adult parent and pre-parent populations. Based on the known parenting and child rearing behaviors of abusive parents, responses to the inventory provide an index of risk for practicing behaviors known to be attributable to child abuse and neglect.
Minimum Age
12
Maximum Age
99
Domains/Subscales
Subscales:
-Expectations of Children
-Parental Empathy toward Children’s Needs
-Use of Corporeal Punishment
-Parent-Child Family Roles
-Children’s Power and Independence
Number of Items
40
Free or Cost
$
Website for More Information
https://assessingparenting.com/assessment/aapi
https://nurturingfamiliescenter.com/curriculum/
Reviewer Notes
What it Measures
Child’s perception of parent’s warmth, hostility, indifference, rejection, and permissiveness.
Minimum Age
4
Maximum Age
23
Domains/Subscales
4 domains: warmth/affection
hostility/aggression
indifference/neglect
undifferentiated rejection
Number of Items
60 (Original)
24 (Short Form)
Free or Cost
$
Website for More Information
https://www.parinc.com/Products/Pkey/312
Reviewer Notes
The PARQ/Control is the standard PARQ with a 13-item parental control (permissiveness-strictness) scale built into it.The standard measure has 73 items; the short version has 29 items.