PAM™

Parenting Alliance Measure™

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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

Administration Formats

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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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Age Range 18 years to 99 years
Admin Time 10 minutes
Qualification Level B

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4235-KT
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4235-KT
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