P-CRS: A Clinical Scale to Assess the Parent-Child Relationship in Infancy and Early Childhood

Anna Maria Speranza, Maria Quintigliano, Marco Lauriola and Alexandro Fortunato
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Anna Maria Speranza: Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Maria Quintigliano: Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Marco Lauriola: Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Alexandro Fortunato: Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 10, 1-15

Abstract: This study aimed to examine the ability of a new clinician-report tool, the Parent-Child Relationship Scale (P-CRS), to assess the individual contributions that parents and their children make within the parent-child relationship, as well as interactions between parents and children in terms of developmental psychopathology. As clinical diagnoses in early childhood is both important and difficult, it is necessary to identify tools that can effectively contribute to evaluating parent-child relationships during the diagnostic process. A sample of 268 mother-child dyads, taken from both public and private clinical settings, was assessed. Clinicians were asked to assess these dyads using the P-CRS after four to five sessions of clinical evaluation. The results indicated that the three areas assessed by the P-CRS—“Interaction”, “Child” and “Parent”—could have different impacts on the various aspects of the parent-child relationship within distinct diagnostic groups. Thus, our findings support the use of the P-CRS to assist with clinical diagnosis during early childhood.

Keywords: caregiving; infancy; early childhood; parent-child relationship; assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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