I am not sure which particular outcomes you are interested in, but the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse website (http://www.cebc4cw.org/assessment-tools/) includes a range of different evidence-based assessment tools (with outline of available evidence, how to access and administer the measure etc.) that may be helpful to you. Unfortunately, the website is currently being updated, but should be up and running again soon! 

What constructs are you attempting to measure?

Hi Inge, thank you for this, I have seen and used materials from the CEBC, shame the website seems to be taking such a long time to update. 

Michelle we are attempting to design a simple, general and quite basic tool to be used across services as a starting point. We hope to do some extensive testing across the county in order to ensure that the tool is appropriate. The tool would be used to measure parenting capacity, knowledge and capacity/motivation to change. 

Take a look at the PICCOLO from researchers at Utah State. It measures positive behaviors in 4 domains: affection, responsiveness, encouragement, and teaching, that are proven to promote children's well-being in school and beyond.

The Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC, Johnson and Mash) and the Parenting Scale (PS, measures likelihood of parents using negative techniques to manage child behaviour) are freely available online. I've used them myself.

PICCOLO is great for measuring parent-child relationship with very young children (

For my research I applied the Adult & Adolescent Parenting Inventory II (AAPI-2) that resulted in beautiful findings. There is a cost, however, I have 300 applications available for use, if you would like to collaborate. Let me know.