Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) Scales

  • Self-paced Feeding module | Apply
  • Self-paced Teaching module | Apply

 

What are the Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) Feeding and Teaching Scales?

  • The scales are valid and reliable assessments for measuring parent-child interaction with an extensive body of research across disciplines.
  • They serve as a well-developed set of observable behaviors that describe caregiver/parent-child interaction in either a feeding or teaching situation.
  • They are excellent pre and post measures to document intervention effects for clinicians and researchers.
  • The scales have been used in hundreds of studies and published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

How do the PCI Scales benefit caregiver/parent-child interaction?

  • The PCI Scales give the provider a new lens with which to see the strengths and opportunities for growth in the parent-child relationship.
  • It also gives concrete areas to guide intervention.
  • The scales measure change in the parent-child relationship.

Learn more about the self-study courses for the Feeding and Teaching Scales (do not purchase the course online, use this link to apply for an ESIT sponsored spot).