Description
The SIPA is a screening and diagnostic instrument that identifies areas of stress in parent and adolescent interactions and is appropriate for parents of adolescents. This upward extension of the popular Parenting Stress Index (PSI) for parents of children ages 1 month to 12 years allows a clinician or researcher to examine the relationship of parenting stress to adolescent characteristics, parent characteristics, and the quality of the adolescent-parent interactions, and stressful life circumstances. Four subscales measure adolescent characteristics: Moodiness/Emotional Lability, Social Isolation/Withdrawal, Delinquency/Antisocial, Failure to Achieve or Persevere Four subscales measure parent characteristics: Life Restrictions, Relationship with Spouse/Partner, Social Alienation, Incompetence/Guilt.