Tweddle NCAST Parent-Child Interactions (PCI) Teaching Scales

Nov 28, 2022 - Dec 05, 2022

Tweddle Child & Family Health Service 53 Adelaide Street Footscray, VIC 3011

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Tweddle NCAST Parent-Child Interactions (PCI) Teaching Scales

Nov 28 2022 - Dec 5 2022

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The PCI Teaching Scales are a widely used validated tool for measuring parent-child interaction. The scale contains a well-developed set of observable behaviours that describe the caregiver-child communication and interaction during a teaching situation, birth to 36 months of age for the purpose of assessing a dyad’s strengths and areas that need improvement. It informs development of skill plans and supports documentation.

Teaching scores from interactions with children as young as 3 months of age show a signification correlation with subsequent measures of attachment, resilience, and cognitive abilities. Scales have been used in research and informed outcomes. As a research validated assessment tool they are an integral part of parenting assessments.

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