Positive Parenting Programme for parents of teenagers aims to promote teenagers’ development and manage teenagers’ behaviour in a constructive and non-hurtful way. It is based on good communication and positive attention to help teenagers develop the skills they need to become mature adults.
Triple P aims to promote positive caring relationships between children teenagers and their parents and to support parents in managing common behaviour and development issues through enhancing parents’ knowledge, skills and confidence. Younger Programme (2 – 10 years): Triple P teaches parents skills to encourage and support their child’s social and language skills, emotional self regulation, independence and problem solving skills. Teen Programme (11 – 15 years) Triple P teaches parents how to encourage emotional self regulation, how to support their teenager to develop the social skills to get along with others and to do well in school and community.Group work, One-to-one work, Triple P is delivered to groups of parents using active skills training through observation, discussion, practice and feedback on progress. The programme works at prevention, early intervention and intervention level for parents. Parents discuss and receive practical tips and advice about parenting skills that they can incorporate into their everyday interactions with their child/teenager.
Providing parenting support in a variety of models including: public seminars/talks, half day workshops, 3-6 week courses, 1 day weekend course and small group work.
Provide participants with an opportunity to update information on drugs and their effects. Explore attitudes and decisions related to substance misuse. Develop a family focused drug prevention strategy.
The primary focus of the course is on the participants’ relationship with self. How we relate with ourselves will hugely affect how we relate with others. The course aims to facilitate parents and those working with children, to explore their relationship with self so that they may become conscious of what unconscious protectors may be driving their behaviour when they are stressed.
Provide parents of children who struggle with anxiety and emotion regulation with proven, practical strategies to support the child, and ultimately benefit the whole family unit.
