Description
The PAM is a useful screening and diagnostic instrument for family counseling, joint custody evaluations, identification of dysfunctional parenting skills, and assessing the impact of the intervention. The PAM was 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. The only measure that assesses the parenting aspects of a couple’s relationship. Validity studies show the PAM to be correlated in the expected directions with measures of parenting stress, family and marital functioning, children’s social skills and psychosocial adjustment, and other parent characteristics.
