Parent-Child Interaction Assessment-II
Videotaped parent-child play and inquiry assessing relational functioning.
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The Parent-Child Interaction Assessment-II (PCIA-II) is a structured observation tool where a parent and their child, aged 3 to 10, are filmed playing together at a pretend zoo. They are given story prompts and instructed to act out what happens next.
After this play session, there is a video-recall step called the Inquiry. The parent and child are shown clips from their own video, which is paused, and each is interviewed separately about what is happening, what they and the other person are doing, thinking, feeling, and wanting. The entire process takes about 45 minutes, with 30 minutes for the filmed play and 15 minutes for the Inquiry.
This measure is used in both research and clinical work with parent-child pairs. In research, it helps test ideas in clinical psychology, psychiatry, and child development. Clinically, it serves as an assessment and a treatment tool.
As an assessment, it gathers information about how the parent and child relate to each other, including their behaviors and thoughts. The videos can be analyzed using a set of codes for the parent, child, or their relationship, which have shown good reliability and validity. As a treatment, the PCIA-II is central to the Modifying Attributions of Parents (PCIA-II/MAP) cognitive-behavioral therapy.
In this approach, a therapist first reviews a pre-treatment recording to find the parent’s strengths and areas of difficulty, such as inaccurate or negative beliefs. During therapy sessions, the clinician and parent work together to build on strengths and change those unhelpful attributions. The PCIA-II/MAP is currently used in treatment and outcome research in Ontario, Canada.
Quick Facts
- Age range
- 3 to 10 years
- Administration time
- Approximately 45 minutes (30 minutes videotaped interaction, 15 minutes Inquiry)
- Developers
- Richard Holigrocki
- Patricia Kaminski
- Siebolt Frieswyk
- George Hough
- Karen She
- Original development period
- 1995 to 1997
- Revision year
- 2002
- Consultant
- Peter Fonagy
- Location of development
- The Menninger Clinic
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Background
The PCIA was developed between 1995 and 1997 at The Menninger Clinic by Richard Holigrocki, Patricia Kaminski, Siebolt Frieswyk, George Hough, and Karen Shectman. Peter Fonagy, director of the Menninger Child and Family Center, provided consultation for the project. The measure was updated and revised in 2002 by the first three authors. Questions under investigation involve studying the influence of psychopathology of the parent or child on the other member of the dyad; child attachment; parental attunement; the relationship between defense mechanisms, internal representations, and aggression; parenting styles; the efficacy of the PCIA-II/MAP intervention; and cross cultural comparisons between samples collected in Hong Kong and the United States.
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Sources
Compiled from Wikipedia and the sources listed below. Text from Wikipedia is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is adapted from it.
- Wikipedia: Parent-Child Interaction Assessment-II (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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