McMaster Family Assessment Device.
FAD
- What it measures
- Family functioning per the McMaster Model; 7 subscales: Problem Solving, Communication, Roles, Affective Responsiveness, Affective Involvement, Behavior Control, and General Functioning
- Length and format
- 60 items. 4-point agreement (strongly agree to strongly disagree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. Spanish, Greek, Chinese, German and dozens more
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Epstein, N. B., Baldwin, L. M., & Bishop, D. S. (1983). The McMaster Family Assessment Device. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 9(2), 171-180.
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