PARQ

Parent Adolescent Relationship Questionnaire

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Purpose

Helps you understand the parent–adolescent relationship

Authors

Arthur Robin, PhD, Thomas Koepke, PhD, and Ann Moye, PhD; Professional Manual by Arthur Robin, PhD, Thomas Koepke, PhD, Ann Moye, PhD, and Rebecca Gerhardstein, PhD

Administration Formats

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Measure Parent-Adolescent Relationship in Independent Private Practices, Outpatient Clinics, Hospitals, Schools, and Forensic Settings

The PARQ examines the relationships between adolescents and parents and enables you to plan effective treatments through an understanding of the multifaceted adolescent-parent relationship.

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Helps you to guide intervention and improve relationships

  • Scales assess global distress and conflict in several areas
  • Measures global distress and conflict in the realms of communication, problem solving, school, siblings, and eating behavior; various maladaptive beliefs, including autonomy, ruination, unfairness, perfectionism, and malicious intent, are also assessed.
  • Family structure and functioning items evaluate cohesion, coalitions (side-taking), and triangulation (putting family members in the middle of conflict).
  • Separate forms for adolescents and parents are written at a 5th-grade reading level and in the first person to elicit current thoughts.

Provides an unmatched level of detail

  • Two validity scales and 12 clinical scales assess the parent-adolescent relationship in detail unmatched by other, similar assessments.
  • T scores, percentile ranges, and reliable change scores are provided separately for adolescents, mothers, and fathers.
  • Average profiles are included for ADHD, ODD, anxiety, depression, eating disorder, and spina bifida clinical groups.

Interested in how the PARQ can inform interventions for defiant teens?

Check out Dr. Robin's popular and handy manual, Defiant Teens, Second Edition: A Clinician's Manual for Assessment and Family Intervention, for clinicians who work with challenging teens.

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Age Range 11 years to 18 years
Admin Time 25-35 minutes
Qualification Level B

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What is the technical information of the PARQ™?

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  • The PARQ Parent is appropriate for use with parents of adolescents between 11 and 18 years of age. The PARQ Adolescent is appropriate for use with adolescents between 11 and 18 years of age. Appropriate populations include adolescents and parents of adolescents who (a) are in clinical and private practice settings with psychiatric diagnoses such as AD/HD, ODD, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and eating disorders; (b) are in school settings and have been diagnosed with learning, behavioral, and emotional problems; (c) are in forensic settings and information about the parent-adolescent relationship is needed; and (d) are in a medical hospital or clinical setting and have chronic or acute illnesses and assessment of the parent-adolescent relationship is needed to improve adherence to medical regimens or to aid in coping with disease processes.
  • There are two parallel versions of the PARQ: the PARQ Adolescent, which consists of 168 true/false items; and the PARQ Parent, which consists of 152 true/false items. Both mothers and fathers complete the PARQ Parent Response Booklet, although separate norms exist for each parent.
  • The PARQ contains 12 scales that comprehensively assess overt conflict, problem solving and communication, extreme beliefs, and family structure, the clinician obtains a multidimensional profile of family functioning.
  • Both of the PARQ Response Booklets (Parent and Adolescent) are hand scored. The PARQ Adolescent Profile Form and the PARQ Parent Profile Form may be plotted, permitting the clinician to compare family functioning across the different scales for each family member.