The Power of Positive Parenting Transforming the Lives of Children, Parents, and Communities Using the Triple P System

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.

Matthew R. Sanders, PhD, is a Professor of Clinical Psychology, founder of the Triple P--Positive Parenting Program, and Director of the Parenting and Family Support Centre at the University of Queensland. He is considered a world leader in the development, evaluation, and global dissemination of evidence-based parenting programs. He has conducted a large number of high quality projects on the role of parenting in influencing developmental outcomes in children and adolescents. He has developed or co-developed a range of specific parenting programs. His work has been recognized with a number of international awards.

Trevor G. Mazzucchelli, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer of Clinical Psychology at Curtin University's School of Psychology and Speech Pathology and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Parenting and Family Support Centre at The University of Queensland. Over the past 20 years, he has held several clinical positions, conducted research in the area of parenting children with disability, and written many articles on this and related topics for scientific journals and publications. He is a co-author of Stepping Stones Triple P for parents of children with a developmental disability.

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