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The PPTTM has been reserved for exclusive use by psychologists and psychiatrists working in the following areas:
Public
and private counseling facilities and institutions working with
preventive family projects, family investigations, family
counseling, family therapy and couples therapy
Divorce
counseling facilities and child psychology expert opinion
inquiries at the courts of law
Adoption agencies
and foster-parent associations.
The
PPT™ is published in Danish and English by Dansk Psykologisk Forlag (The
Danish Psychological Publishing Co.). The publisher may be
reached here:
Phone: +45
3538 1655
Fax +45 3538 1665
E-mail:
info@dpf.dk
ppt™
The Parents’ Preference Test, PPTTM, is a picture-based, multiple-choice test with images representing everyday family activities
The Parents’ Preference Test, PPTTM is planned to be supplemented with a children's part, making then "The family test"The PPTTM is aimed at measuring general aspects of the interactions between parents and their children, presumed to be universal.
The PPTTM is a test where the parents indicate their own preferred modus operandi as parents – in central areas; i.e., the way they prefer to function as parents, and which is part of the basis of attachment and parent-child interaction in the family.The PPTTM has several objectives in view:
- A high level of face validity. This means that the situations and themes appearing in the test all represent normal situations in the everyday life of a family – situations that most people are able to recognize and identify with as parents. The cozy, down-to-earth family pictures have an anxiety-reducing effect.
- A rapid and easy administration procedure.
- Capability of inspiring a dialogue on parenthood and of inviting a feeling of joint ownership of the test results, and of the development and change indicated as desirable by the results.
- Standardization and testing according to scientific principles.
The lessons learned so far from using the PPTTM in family studies and family therapy indicate that the use of pictures is very suitable as a basis for a dialogue concerning parenting style perspectives, the personal historical background of these perspectives, and the possible connection between one’s parenting style and the problems encountered in raising one’s children. Due to the use of images from daily family life, it becomes natural to discuss the reasons for taking the test: one’s personal way of parenting and the potential ties to the family problems occasioning the examination.
The PPTTM makes it possible to describe central aspects of people’s parenting style, despite the enormous complexity of this phenomenon. Using the test results for diagnostic as well as therapeutic purposes, however, requires insight and experience, and no final evaluations should be made solely on the basis of this test. The test results should be combined with other sources of information, such as interaction observation, in order to arrive at a professional evaluation of the parenting style in question
