Stress Index for Parents of Adolescents: SIPA Introductory Kit
The SIPA (Screening Instrument for Parent-Adolescent Stress) is an instrument designed for the assessment of stress within parent-adolescent interactions in families experiencing relational difficulties. It helps clinicians and counselors gain a better understanding of how parenting stress relates to adolescent characteristics, parent characteristics, the quality of their interactions, and stressful life circumstances. This tool provides professional teams with a framework that facilitates screening and diagnostic evaluation of family dynamics and allows them to tailor interventions and prevention programs to reduce stress and improve relationships.
Benefits:
Comprehensive Stress Identification: Assesses multiple stress domains affecting both parents and adolescents.
Supports Forensic and Clinical Use: Valuable for custody evaluations, family counseling, and treatment planning.
Focus on Interaction Quality: Examines the relational patterns and stresses impacting family functioning.
Guides Prevention and Intervention: Helps design targeted programs to reduce parental stress and adolescent behavioural risks.
Key Features:
Parent-Focused Domains: Life restrictions, relationship with spouse/partner, social alienation, incompetence/guilt.
Adolescent-Focused Domains: Moodiness/emotional liability, social isolation/withdrawal, delinquency/antisocial behaviour, failure to achieve or persevere.
Stressful Life Circumstances: Includes evaluation of external factors influencing family stress levels.
Versatile Applications: Suitable for use in family counseling, forensic assessments, prevention programs, and treatment planning.
Applications
Family counseling and therapy for parent-adolescent stress
Forensic evaluations including adolescent custody cases
Identification of dysfunctional parent-adolescent systems
Prevention programs targeting parental stress reduction
Intervention and treatment planning for high-stress family dynamics
Price (excl. VAT):
€244.88