PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP ASSESSMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

Author(s):  
Charles H. Zeanah ◽  
Paula D. Zeanah
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. e12378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Kopala-Sibley ◽  
Lea R. Dougherty ◽  
Margret W. Dyson ◽  
Rebecca S. Laptook ◽  
Thomas M. Olino ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Postert ◽  
Marlies Averbeck-Holocher ◽  
Sandra Achtergarde ◽  
Jörg Michael Müller ◽  
Tilman Furniss

Author(s):  
Anna Maria Speranza ◽  
Maria Quintigliano ◽  
Marco Lauriola ◽  
Alexandro Fortunato

This study aimed to examine the ability of a new clinician-report tool, the Parent-Child Relationship Scale (P-CRS), to assess the individual contributions that parents and their children make within the parent-child relationship, as well as interactions between parents and children in terms of developmental psychopathology. As clinical diagnoses in early childhood is both important and difficult, it is necessary to identify tools that can effectively contribute to evaluating parent-child relationships during the diagnostic process. A sample of 268 mother-child dyads, taken from both public and private clinical settings, was assessed. Clinicians were asked to assess these dyads using the P-CRS after four to five sessions of clinical evaluation. The results indicated that the three areas assessed by the P-CRS—“Interaction”, “Child” and “Parent”—could have different impacts on the various aspects of the parent-child relationship within distinct diagnostic groups. Thus, our findings support the use of the P-CRS to assist with clinical diagnosis during early childhood.


Author(s):  
Roseanne Clark ◽  
Audrey Tluczek ◽  
Elizabeth C. Moore ◽  
Amber L. Evenson

This chapter reviews the theoretical foundations and empirical support for employing a relational perspective when assessing the mental health of an infant or toddler. A review of specific measures widely used in assessing the quality of affect and behavior in parent–child interactions, relationship quality, and parenting capacities (see Clark, Tluczek, Moore, & Evenson, 2019, Chapter 3) illustrates the importance of utilizing a parent–child relationship paradigm in the assessment of the mental health and social and emotional functioning of infants and young children. Although the term parent is used throughout the chapter, another significant caregiver who holds a parenting or primary caregiving role may be substituted as needed, such as a grandparent or foster parent.


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