Parenting Alliance Measure™ (PAM™)
Richard R. Abidin, Ed.D., and Timothy R. Konold,,Ph.D.

The PAM is the only assessment that measures the parenting aspects of a couple’s relationship, providing the counselor with the parents’ perspective  of how cooperative, communicative, and mutually respectful they are with regard to caring for their children.
 
The PAM is a useful screening and diagnostic tool for a variety of applications:
 
• Family counseling
• Joint custody evaluations
• Identification of dysfunctional parenting
• Assessing the impact of intervention
 
In addition to its unique measure, the PAM is remarkably convenient and efficient:

• Quick and easy for parents to complete in approx. 10 minutes
• Easy to score in approx. 5 minutes
• Applicable to a variety of  parenting partners (married, divorced, unmarried, etc.)
 
Administration/Scoring

The PAM  materials consist of the Professional Manual and self-scoring 20-item PAM test form written at a 3rd grade reading level.  Once the test form has been completed, the top page peels back to reveal the scoring page.  Both T scores and percentile scores can be used to determine the strength of the parentingalliance.  Separate norms are available for fathers and mothers.