The Family Assessment Device (FAD) was administered to
assess global family functioning.
Not exact matches
These dimensions, each
assessed by a
global item, were: (1) Background characteristics (social class, race,
family background, religion); (2) Attitudes and beliefs; (3) Leisure activities and interests; (4) Communication style; (5) Personality; and (6) Physical attributes.
Most prior PAT items were retained; however, parents recommended changes to improve screening format (separately
assessing each sibling within the
family and expanding response options to include «sometimes»), developmental sensitivity (developing or revising items for ages 0 — 2, 3 — 4, 5 — 9, and 10 + years), and content (adding items related to sibling - specific social support,
global assessments of sibling risk, emotional / behavioral reactions to cancer, and social ecological factors such as
family and school).
Various measures exist for
assessing constructs in the areas of parent — child relationships, parental practices and discipline, parental beliefs, marital quality,
global family functioning and situation - specific measures.
The FAAS were specifically designed to
assess the quality of triadic interactions during the LTP along one categorical scale (
global assessment of the «
family alliance» typology) and 15 ordinal scales (focused on specific characteristics of the interactions).
Instead of measuring
global family functioning, a pediatric psychologist may be interested in
assessing the functioning of the
family within the context of the medical condition they are facing.