| Target audience: | Parents in general, Parents of children 0-5, First time parents, People who parent alone, Post separation parents, Fathers, Foster parents, Blended families |
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| Theme/subject matter: | General Parenting, First Time Parenting, Behaviour Management, Special Needs, Post-separation parenting |
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| Method of delivery: | Group work, One-to-one work, Home visiting |
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| Programme aims: | The Early Years Parenting Programme aims to build on parents’ strengths and to have more enjoyable and satisfying relationships with their children and to help them solve discipline problems. |
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| Resources used: | Two DVDs which contain 3 hours of footage containing over eighty real scenes of parenting situations, which are backed up by comments by professionals, parents and children. A comprehensive facilitators manual that contains the full text of the DVDs, extensive background information, a full guide on how to prepare and run each session of the course, detailed group exercises, along with handouts and homework assignments for participants. Authors: The material was written and developed by Dr. John Sharry, Social Worker and Psychotherapist, Grainne Hampson & Mary Fanning, Speech & Language Therapists at the Department of Child & Family Psychiatry at the Mater Hospital in Dublin. The material was developed in consultation with colleagues in the Mater Hospital and in partnership with over forty parents and children who attended the Mater service along with other parents and children from the community. |
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