The Triple P Positive Parenting Program has been working with parents for decades to help them gain skills and techniques to foster a healthy and loving family dynamic.
Not only offering support for new parents, the program has recently created an online course designed to help recently separated or divorced families navigate the pivotal transition with their children more confidently.
Aiming to reduce negative impacts while ensuring kids feel supported and secure, the new Triple P Family Transitions Online Course looks to be a valuable tool for families trying to navigate this change as smoothly as possible.
About Triple P – Positive Parenting Program
Triple P is well-respected and widely used evidence-based parenting program. Created with the aim of providing parents with the skills, knowledge and techniques to confidently raise their children in a healthy and loving family dynamic, the program is based on over 35 years of research with proven success worldwide.
The online parenting program teaches parents how to navigate through, and even prevent, emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents.
Providing strategies to deal with conflict and parent in a more gentle and effective manner, the main aims of the program are to:
- Build a stronger and more positive family dynamic
- Encourage consistently good behaviour in your child
- Effectively manage problem behaviour with confidence
- Predict potentially difficult situations and navigate your child successfully through them
- Build the best possible relationship with your child
- Learn to look after your own emotional needs as a parent
Triple P is ranked by the United Nations as the world’s most extensively researched parenting program in the world and is backed by four decades of ongoing research.
Triple P – Family Transitions Online Course
The team behind Triple P understand parenting can be challenging at any time, however, one of the hardest periods to navigate with children is when parents separate or divorce.
An upheaval of what they previously considered their “normal”, this period of time can be fraught with concern, worry, anxiety, and stress for both parents and children.
Dr Helen Stallman, a clinical psychologist and co-author of Family Transitions Triple P, is available to discuss the evolving nature of family dynamics in Australia, and how parents and carers can navigate this pivotal time more confidently.
“Statistics show that almost half of Australian divorces involve children under 18. The research shows divorce itself isn’t harmful to children. It’s how parents and carers manage the transition through separation and divorce that has the potential to negatively impact children.”
The Triple P Family Transitions online program has been created with this in mind.
University developed and based on extensive research with parents going through this change, the course offers proven tips and strategies which assist everyone to cope and adjust well during this time.
What is in the Family Transitions online course?
The Triple P Family Transitions Online course is free and, regardless if one or both parents register, can make a difference with practical tips and strategies.
The program includes five different modules, which include:
- Module One – Separation or divorce – a family transition – understand common ‘parent traps,’ build support and stability for your child, and learn how to help children manage and express their feelings.
- Module Two – Coping with emotions – explore coping skills and relaxation strategies to help reduce stress and allow you to feel calmer.
- Module Three – Coping with emotions (2) – get strategies to manage unhelpful thoughts, learn how to take better care of your emotional and mental well-being.
- Module Four – Manage co-parent conflict – learn how to effectively co-parent, minimise conflict and communicate well with your former partner. Discover age-appropriate ways to discuss the separation with your child. Create a solid parenting plan.
- Module Five – Balancing work, family, and play – helpful ways to create a positive family identity, manage new relationships and build your social support.
There are many resources available for Brisbane families to help support them through separation or divorce.
This Family Transitions online program can further ease the transition by walking you through coping skills and strategies which will help with the adjustment. Some of the benefits to the course are that you can:
- Personalise the program to suit your circumstances, your family, your values
- Feel more confident in your parenting skills – learn how to handle challenging moments more positively
- Discover effective ways to help your child (and yourself) to manage big emotions
- Build your communication skills to co-parent effectively with your former partner
- Do the program anywhere, anytime, on any device
- University-developed and proven to work
- Videos, resources and interactive learning
Delivery of the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program to parents and carers of children in Australia is supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care under the Parenting Education and Support Program.
Parents and carers can access free, online parenting support 24/7 at triplep-parenting.net.au.
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