The  Stress Index for Parents of Adolescents (SIPA) is a 112 item screening and diagnostic instrument that identifies areas of stress in parent-adolescent interactions, allowing examination of the relationship of parenting stress to adolescent characteristics, parent characteristics, the quality of the adolescent-parent interactions, and stressful life circumstances in parents of adolescents ages 11-19 year . The SIPA yields scores on three domains: Adolescent Domain (AD), Parent Domain (PD, and Adolescent-Parent Relationship Domain (APRD); a Life Stressors (LS) scale; and an Index of Total Parenting Stress (TS). The AD and PD domains contain four sub-scales each.

• Areas of parent-focused inspection include life restrictions, relationship with spouse/partner, social alienation, and incompetence/guilt.
• Areas of adolescent-focused inspection include moodiness/emotional lability, social isolation/withdrawal, delinquency/antisocial, and failure to achieve or persevere.
• Useful for family counseling, forensic evaluations for adolescent custody, identification of dysfunctional parent-adolescent systems, prevention programs designed to reduce parental stress, and intervention and treatment planning in high stress areas.
• Internal consistency coefficients range from .80 to .90.
• Test-retest reliability coefficients for the subscales range from .74 to .91.