PAM™

Parenting Alliance Measure™

Purpose: Measures the strength of the child-rearing alliance between parents

Format: Paper and pencil, E-Manual

Age range: 18 years to 99 years

Time: 10 minutes

DETAILS:

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.

• 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 the 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.