None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The aim of the project is to evaluate the impact of a brief, intensive seminar on positive parenting for parents who are divorced. The seminar is specifically developed to address risk factors and enhance protective factors for parents who are divorced. It aims to enhance parental coping, communication, and conflict management skills as well as reduce dysfunctional parenting styles and parental adjustment issues. The seminar also aims to encourage parents to build skills and competencies in their child that will enable the child to successfully negotiate high-risk environments, and enhancing their child’s resilience.
Interventions
Triple P is a multilevel system of behavioural family interventions that aims to prevent and treat child social, emotional and behavioural problems by enhancing parenting confidence, knowledge and skills. Triple P offers five levels of intervention varying in the degree and type of parental support required. The current intervention is classified as Level 2 (seminars).
Within the Triple P system, Family Transitions Triple P was developed specifically for who are separated or divorced. Parents
Triple P is a multilevel system of behavioural family interventions that aims to prevent and treat child social, emotional and behavioural problems by enhancing parenting confidence, knowledge and skills. Triple P offers five levels of intervention varying in the degree and type of parental support required. The current intervention is classified as Level 2 (seminars). Within the Triple P system, Family Transitions Triple P was developed specifically for who are separated or divorced. Parents in the intervention group will participate in a 4 hour seminar on successfully navigating the transition through divorce. The seminar will describe the needs of children following divorce, provide an understanding of the transition of divorce, and help parents identify factors that play a role in causing problems for children following divorce. The intervention also aims to teach positive parenting skills, reduce conflict between parents over parenting issues, improve communication with children and build parents' stress management and coping skills. A randomised controlled trial design will be used to evaluate the effects of participation in the seminar intervention, in comparison with a wait list control group.
Sponsors
Jenna Campbell
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
A parent who has at least one child between the ages of 2 and 12. The parent has been separated from their partner for no more than two years - this includes being divorced for no more than one year.
Exclusion criteria
The parent has been separated from their partner for longer than two years. The target child has a disability and/or chronic illness, including language or speech impairment. The parent is currently seeing a professional for parenting support, primarily relating to their child’s behaviour difficulties. The parent is currently enrolled in a parenting program or attended a parenting program in the past 3 months. The parent is receiving psychological/psychiatric help or counselling (personal/marital). The parent is intellectually and/or hearing impaired. The parent is not able to read/write English without assistance.
Outcome results
None listed