ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a set of scales for measuring “triadic coordination” processes. The instrument provides a method for examining how each parent coordinates his or her behavior with the other parent’s bids toward their child as mother, father, and child engage in triadic interactions. It offers an approach to operationalizing whether a child is “caught in the middle” of marital discord, a family process that is of considerable interest to researchers and clinicians. More generally, it provides a way to study interesting new questions about the organization of interaction in family triads.
