An Evaluation of Group Triple P – Positive Parenting Program with Chinese Parents

The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program is an effective evidence-based parenting program, and aims to help parents build strong, healthy relationships, and confidently manage children’s behaviour by providing parents with simple and practical strategies. Group Triple P has been shown to have the positive impact on Chinese parents, which significantly reduced child adjustment problems and ineffective parenting practices, while improving parental self-efficacy (Guo, Morawska, & Sanders, 2016). Parents in the intervention condition will receive a slightly modified version of Group Triple P. The session content will be tailored slight to have a larger focus on father involvement and partner support, but no major content changes will be included. The program is comprised of four 2-hour group sessions and four 30-minute individual telephone sessions and lasts eight consecutive weeks. One group session per week for 4 weeks followed by one phone session per week for 4 weeks. The four group sessions focused on providing parents skills and strategies needed to manage their children behaviours and support each other in parenting. The four follow-up phone calls were designed to help families tailor the program to the family's needs. During phone call sessions, the weekly goals and homework tasks parents set will be reviewed. Parents can also set the agenda for each of telephone sessions, and discuss problems they encounter and the successes they have with using the positive parenting strategies. The group sessions will be videotaped for the purpose of ensuring that the intervention is implemented according to the research protocol. Parents will be provided with Group Triple P workbook and "Supporting Your Partner" Tipsheet. The intervention will be delivered in Chinese (Mandarin). All sessions will be conducted by an accredited provider of the program. The location of the group sessions will be in the local universities or community organizations in China, and will be also based on the preference of the parents.