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Parenting Modules

Intake meeting: Getting on Board & Connecting

Getting to know each other. History & background. Building trust and setting the ground rules and boundaries. Identifying some positive goals and a plan for everyone

1. Parenting – Nurture or Abuse?

A close look at the two parenting wheels - the abuse wheel and the nurture wheel. Look

at non-violent ways to discipline. Identify the ways we attend to our own and their wellbeing

Gain an understanding of different Parenting Styles

2. Triggers – What Pushes My Buttons?

Which buttons do your children push? Why do they push your buttons? What is the

history to this trigger for you? How to manage your reactions. Coming up with a strategy

for managing your triggers

3. Anger & Stress Management

Day to day management of stress in order to parent well. How to assess the physical,

emotional, mental, spiritual well-being of yourself, your family and the relationships within

your family. Gain some clearer ideas of options for when you are right up against it and

are about to explode at your children.

4. Communication & Listening Skills
     Improving understanding between young people and parents.   Identify your own style of
     communication and what is needed for good communication. How you might improve your
     listening skills. Understand clearly the difference between ‘passive’, ‘aggressive’, and
     ‘assertive’ styles of communicating

5. Healthy Relationships
     What relationships are good for you and your children and what are not? What does it
     takes to keep a relationship healthy? What is peer pressure and how can you help your
     children deal with it in a positive way? Boundaries – What are healthy boundaries. How to
     hold them.  Rules & Consequences - What happens when the rules are broken?

6. Self esteem
    Why is self esteem so important for everyone?   Ways to build self esteem for all family

members. Positive and negative messages and how they work – short term and long term

What are you each good at and what is good for you? Goals and steps to get there.

7. Human Development – growing up to ‘grown up’

What are the different stages of human development? What tasks need to be achieved at

each stage? What behaviour can you expect at each stage? What children need from

adults at each stage of growing up. How to stay ‘grown up’ as a parent/caregiver

What adults need to do for themselves in order to parent well

8. Values and Beliefs

What values and beliefs do you and your partner have in common about parenting? Which

ones do you clash on? How do you manage these clashing beliefs within your relationship

and your job of parenting? What messages do your children get? Mixed?? Where do they

actually stand with your values and beliefs?

9. Roles and role Modelling

What is your role as a parent/caregiver? How do you set example? What other adults are

in their lives that set example? Negative & positive impact of behaviour and attitudes they

see. Choosing the right people to support you and your family. Identify your roles. What

new roles can you develop?

10. Safety Plans & Conflict Resolution
Setting up a safety plan and family agreement. What is conflict? Why is it important to
‘resolve’ it? What steps will you take? How will you do this?

REVIEW MEETINGS
Parents/caregivers are also required to attend 4 review meetings every 2-3 weeks with youth, parents/caregivers, referring agency representative to:

Assess and review progress. Talk about how it is going for everyone
Formulate a ‘family agreement’ in consultation with young person. What is it that they would like/need from you? More of? Less of? What is it that you would like from them
Looking at this plan in terms of the safety and well-being of them and the whole family.

Final review meeting to look at options & to assess whether any further additional support needed

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