Description
Derived from the Personality Assessment Inventory™ (PAI®), the PAS is designed for use as a triage instrument in most health care and mental health settings, as well as in corporate EAPs and college health services. This self-administered objective questionnaire was developed with reference to its parent instrument, the PAI®. The 22 PAS items are those items from the PAI that have been identified by extensive item analysis as the most sensitive to the broad range of contemporary clinical problems measured by the PAI. The items are organized hierarchically into 10 different “Elements” representing 10 distinct clinical problem domains: Negative Affect (NA), Hostile Control (HC), Acting Out (AO), Suicidal Thinking (ST), Health Problems (HP), Alienation (AN), Psychotic Features (PF), Alcohol Problem (AP), Social Withdrawal (SW) and Anger Control (AC).