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The purpose of the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory is to assess the parenting and child-rearing attitudes of adolescents ages 12 - 19 and adults ages 20 and older. The AAPI includes four subscales representing the most frequent patterns associated with abusive parenting:
Based on an individual's response within each of the four parenting patterns, specific instructions can be implemented to remediate assessed parenting and child-rearing deficiencies.
Treatment and educational settings. The room in which the inventory is administered should be comfortable and adequately lighted. The examiner should provide an environment that assures privacy and confidentiality will be respected.
The goal in utilizing the AAPI is to gather information regarding an individual's attitudes and beliefs toward parenting and child rearing. The responses to the items on the inventory provide an indication of the individual's abilities to parent children in a non-abusive manner. The most important use of the AAPI is assessment for treatment and education.
The AAPI was developed from four parenting patterns found to contribute to abusive parent-child interactions.
Scores from the AAPI indicate degrees of agreement and disagreement in the following, including: inappropriate AAPI, FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention 2 developmental expectations of children, lack of empathy toward children's needs, belief in the use of corporal punishment, and reversing parent-child roles. Based on an individual's responses within each of the four parenting patterns, specific instructions can be implemented to remediate assessed parenting and child-rearing deficiencies.
Administration Time: There is no time limit for responding to the AAPI. Generally, the distribution and completion of the entire inventory should take approximately 20 to 30 minutes.
Test Group: The AAPI is designed for adolescents ages 12 to 19 and adults ages 20 and older.
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