For parents

How it works

Your school will contact you with information about when you can register for the online seminars (Term 4). You can participate in the 3 seminars on a date and at a time in Term 4 that suits your family.

You will be asked to complete a brief (10-15 minutes) online survey at 2 time points:

• Before the seminars (first questionnaire)
• After the Triple P seminars (4 weeks after the first questionnaire).

The seminars and benefits

The three interconnected seminars focus on an important set of strategies that will help you guide your child’s behaviour, manage everyday worries, and build healthy peer relationships. Attending all three seminars will provide you with the strategies you need to best support your child’s development and help them thrive now and into adolescence.

Our team has evaluated these seminars across 160 schools, and we found that children’s social, emotional, and behavioural wellbeing and parents’ relationship with their child’s school all improved significantly. Further details can be found in the project report. So that schools and parents have a shared language and set of strategies, a webinar containing a summary of the content of each of the three seminars; a detailed summary sheet of strategies including examples classroom application is available for school staff.

More about the seminars

• Power of Positive Parenting

  The Power of Positive Parenting seminar helps you to understand why kids behave the way they do and introduces practical strategies to support your child’s social and emotional development.

  This seminar will help you to:

  • Understand why kids behave the way they do
  • Raise happy, confident kids
  • Get on well with their kids and argue less
  • Manage kids’ behaviour
  • Develop routines that everyone follows
  • Balance work and family with less stress
• Helping Your Child to Manage Anxiety

  The Helping Your Child to Manage Anxiety seminar is designed to equip you with the skills and strategies you need to support your child to manage their emotions and overcome challenges.

  This seminar will help you to:

  • Teach kids to manage their emotions
  • Develop your child’s ability to bounce back from disappointments
  • Show kids how to express strong feelings in a healthy way
  • Raise kids who can deal with stress
  • Encourage problem-solving and a positive attitude
• Keeping your Child Safe from Bullying

  The Keeping your Child Safe from Bullying seminar helps you maintain good communication with your child, develop positive peer relationships, and address conflict and bullying.

  This seminar will help you to:

  • Maintain good communication with their child
  • Help children develop positive relationships with their peers
  • Notice signs when children are having problems like bullying
  • Teach your child how to solve problems with peers
  • Address conflict and bullying

Frequently asked questions

• What are the possible risks and disadvantages of taking part?

  Participation in this study should involve no physical or mental discomfort, and no risks beyond those of everyday living. If, however, you should find any question or procedure to be invasive or offensive, you are free to omit answering or participating in that aspect of the study. We also encourage you to discuss any concerns with the project.

• What will happen if I decide to withdraw?

  Your participation in this research is voluntary and you are free to withdraw from the research anytime without needing to provide any explanation, and you would not receive any penalty or bias as a result of your withdrawal. Should you decide to withdraw your data, please let us know, all the information collected from/about you will be destroyed and will not be used in the research. Please note that once the data is analysed and/or included in publications it will not be possible for you to withdraw your data from the project. Data analysis is planned to start after the third assessment. As mentioned before, your data would always be unidentifiable after analysis.

• Can I hear about the results of this research?

  If you are interested, and upon request, the outcome of the study can be communicated to you as a brief report at the end of the project. Findings of the current study will be made publicly assessable in various outputs including, journal articles, conference papers, reports, scientific presentations, and thesis chapters.

• Has this study undergone ethics approval?

  This study adheres to the Guidelines of the ethical review process of The University of Queensland and the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research. If you would like to speak to an officer of the University not involved in the study, you may contact the Ethics Coordinator on +617 3365 3924 / +617 3443 1656 or email humanethics@research.uq.edu.au.

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