Parenting Teens- Teen Triple P Programme

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Group Teen Triple P is a broad-based parenting intervention delivered over eight weeks for parents of teenagers up to 16 years old and who are interested in learning a variety of parenting skills. Parents may be interested in promoting their teenagers development and potential or they may have concerns about their teenager’s behaviour that they want to change. The program involves four (2 hour) group sessions of up to 12 parents. Parents actively participate in a range of exercises to learn about the causes of adolescent behaviour problems, setting specific goals, and using strategies to promote a teenager’s skills development, managing inappropriate behaviour and teaching emotional self-regulation. Parents also learn how to plan around risk-taking behaviour or risky situations. Then there are three (15 to 30 minute) individual telephone consultations to assist parents with independent problem solving while they are practising the skills at home. The group then re-convenes to review progress, discuss maintenance and generalisation issues and complete final assessments.

What is covered in sessions with parents?

Session 1: Positive parenting. This session provides parents with an introduction to what is positive parenting, factors that influence teenagers’ behaviour, and how to set goals for change. Parents submit a completed assessment booklet at the beginning of this session.

Session 2: Encouraging appropriate behaviour. During this session, the practitioner discusses how to develop positive relationships with teenagers, increase desirable behaviour, teach new skills and behaviours, use behaviour contracts, and hold family meetings.

Session 3: Managing problem behaviour. In this session, parents learn how to develop family rules, deal with noncooperation, acknowledge emotions, and use behaviour contracts. They have an opportunity to rehearse these routines to promote emotional self-regulation in the session.

Session 4: Dealing with risky behaviour. This session covers identifying risky situations, routines to deal with risky behaviour, and family survival tips. Parents also prepare for their telephone consultation sessions.

Session 5-7: Implementing parenting routines 1-3. The practitioner provides feedback from initial assessments that the family completed and then uses a self-regulatory feedback model to assist parents to review their implementation of parenting strategies and risky behaviour plans. From this, parents set goals for the further refinement of their routines, if needed.

Source: Triple P International

All programmes are free, childcare is offered based on family needs and dinner/refreshments are provided for the family.