Full Description
Safe, nurturing, and positive parent-child interactions lay the foundations for healthy child development. How children are raised in their early years and beyond affects many different aspects of their lives, including brain development, language, social skills, emotional regulation, mental and physical health, health risk behavior, and the capacity to cope with a spectrum of major life events. As such, parenting is the most important potentially modifiable target of preventive intervention.
The Power of Positive Parenting provides an in-depth description of "Triple P," one of the most extensively studied parenting programs in the world, backed by more than 30 years of ongoing research. Triple P has its origins in social learning theory and the principles of behavior, cognitive, and affective change, and its aim is to prevent severe behavioral, emotional, and developmental problems in children and adolescents by enhancing the knowledge, skills, and confidence of parents. Triple P incorporates five levels of intervention on a tiered continuum of increasing strength for parents of children from birth to age 16. The programs comprising the Triple P system are designed to create a family-friendly environment that better supports parents, with a range of programs tailored to their differing needs. This volume draws on the editors' experience of developing Triple P, and chapters address every aspect of the system, as well as how it can be applied to a diverse range of child and parent problems in different age groups and cultural contexts.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
Contributors
Section 1: Foundations and Overview of the Triple P: Positive Parenting Program as population approach to parenting support
1. A population approach to evidence-based parenting: An introduction
Matthew R. Sanders
2. How parenting influences the lives of children
Matthew R. Sanders and Trevor G. Mazzucchelli
3. Emergence of a population-based approach to parenting support
Matthew R. Sanders and Ron Prinz
4. Core principles and techniques of positive parenting
Matthew R. Sanders and Trevor G. Mazzucchelli
Section 2. Applications of positive parenting to social, emotional, and health problems
5. Applications of positive parenting: An introduction
Trevor G. Mazzucchelli
6. Children with externalizing behavior problems
Trevor G. Mazzucchelli and Matthew R. Sanders
7. Children with peer relationship difficulties
Karyn L. Healy
8. Children with anxiety problems
Vanessa Cobham
9. Parenting support for children with developmental disability
Trevor G. Mazzucchelli and Lisa J. Studman
10. Supporting parents of children with serious mental health problems
Kylie Burke
11. Children and adolescents with chronic health conditions
Alina Morawska
12. A population approach to parenting support for childhood obesity
Jessica A. Bartlett and Matthew R Sanders
13. Adolescents and young adults with psychosocial difficulties
Alan Ralph
Section 3: Applications of positive parenting with different types of families and family members
14. Applying positive parenting with different types of families and family members: An introduction
Matthew R. Sanders
15. Working with fathers
Louise Keown
16. Working with extended family members including grandparents
James N. Kirby
17. Parents with serious mental health problems
Rachel Calam and Anja Wittkowski
18. Parents who are separating or divorced
Helen M. Stallman and Jeneva L. Ohan
Section 4: Using positive parenting programs in different delivery systems
19. Using positive parenting programs in different delivery systems: An introduction
Matthew R. Sanders
20. Parenting support in the context of primary health care
Karen M. T. Turner and Carol W. Metzler
21. Parenting support in an early childhood learning context
Karen M. T. Turner, Cassandra Dittman, Julie C. Rusby, and Shawna Lee
22. Parenting support and the school system
Julie Hodges and Karyn L. Healy
23. Parenting support in the workplace
Divna Haslam and Nicole Penman
24. Parenting support in the context of natural disaster
Vanessa E. Cobham, Brett McDermott, and Matthew R. Sanders
25. Broadcast media-based approaches to positive parenting
Carol W. Metzler and Julie C. Rusby
26. Technology-assisted delivery of parenting programs
Karen M. T. Turner, Sabine Baker, and Jamin Day
Section 5: Responding to the needs of cultural diversity in families
27. Responding to the needs of cultural diversity in families: An introduction
Trevor G. Mazzucchelli
28. A collaborative partnership adaptation model
Karen M. T. Turner, Matthew R. Sanders, Louise Keown, and Matthew Shepherd
29. Working effectively with Indigenous families
Karen M. T. Turner, Lauren M. Hodge, Michell Forster, and Cari D. McIlduff
30. Accommodating race and ethnicity in parenting interventions
Divna Haslam and Anilena Mejia
31. The role of values and religious beliefs in positive parenting
Aala El-Khani and Rachel Calam
Section 6: Making large-scale population-level implementation work
32. Making large-scale population-level implementation work: An introduction
Matthew R. Sanders
33. A framework for successful implementation of the Triple P system
Jenna McWilliam and Jacqui Brown
34. Training a workforce to implement evidence-based parenting programs
Alan Ralph and Cassandra K. Dittman
35. Using social marketing strategies to enhance program reach
Leanne Wilkinson
36. Measuring child, parent and family outcomes at an individual and population level
Alina Morawska and Matthew R. Sanders
37. Promoting program fidelity through peer-assisted supervision and support
Kerri E. McPherson and Birgit Schroeter
Section 7: Learnings from large-scale population-level implementation of parenting support
38. Learnings from large-scale population-level implementation of parenting support: An introduction
Trevor G. Mazzucchelli
39. Shifting the needle on child maltreatment
Ronald J. Prinz and Cheri J. Shapiro
40. Partnerships and scaling up population level interventions
Conor Owens, Orla Doyle, Mary Hegarty, Karen Heavey, and Eamonn Farrell
41. Supporting families of children with a disability
Kate Sofronoff, Kylie M. Gray, Stewart L. Einfeld, and Bruce J. Tonge
Section 8: Program development, quality assurance and innovation
42. Program development, quality assurance and innovation: An introduction
Trevor G. Mazzucchelli
43. Quality assurance and program development
Matthew R. Sanders and James N. Kirby
44. The current state of evidence-based parenting support programs
Matthew R. Sanders
45. Innovation in parenting programs
Matthew R. Sanders, Karen M. T. Turner, and Trevor G. Mazzucchelli
46. The future of evidence-based parenting support programs
Matthew R. Sanders
Glossary
Author Index
Subject Index
