Once the story creation part has finished, they complete the PCIA-II Inquiry video-recall procedure where they are shown selections from their videotape.
As a research tool, the PCIA-II is used to test hypotheses relevant to clinical psychology, psychiatry, and child development.
As a psychological assessment measure, information is obtained about parent-child relational functioning and each person's behaviors and cognitions.
Videorecordings are analyzed qualitatively and/or quantitatively using a set of parent, child, or relational codes that have demonstrated good psychometric properties (see Holigrocki, 2008).
Richard Holigrocki, Patricia Kaminski, Siebolt Frieswyk, George Hough, and Karen Shectman developed the PCIA between 1995 and 1997 at The Menninger Clinic and the measure was updated and revised in 2002 by the first three authors.