The Parenting Practices Rating Scale is designed to document the clinical assessment of parenting by the targeted parent. The scale contains four primary items:
1.) Category Level of Parenting:
2.) Permissive-Authoritarian Rating
3.) Empathy
4.) Issues of Clinical Concern
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Dr. Craig Childress: Attachment Based "Parental Alienation" (AB-PA)
The Parenting Practices Rating Scale is designed to document the clinical assessment of parenting by the targeted parent. The scale contains four primary items:
1.) Category Level of Parenting:
Item 1, the Category Level of Parenting, identifies deviant-abusive parenting relative to broadly normal-range parenting.
The Level of parenting is rated on a 4-point Likert scale (abusive, severely problematic, normal-range problematic, normal-range healthy), anchored by descriptive categories of parenting. Identifying the category of parenting locates the parenting in the corresponding Level of the rating scale.
The 4-point Likert scale is then brought together into two broad categories of parenting; deviant-abusive (Levels 1 and 2) and normal-range (Levels 3 and 4). It is this dichotomous classification that is used for diagnostic indicator 1 by the Diagnostic Checklist for Pathogenic Parenting to define a “normal-range parent” (Levels 3 and 4)
Ratings on Item 1: Category Levels should offer parenting examples to support the…
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