Dudley Parenting Offer

Interventions for parents Ante-natal

• Triple P for Baby

Triple P for Baby aims to prepare expectant or parents with a baby up to 12 months of age. for a positive transition to parenthood and the first year with baby, promoting sensitive and responsive care in the perinatal period.

Parents actively participate in a range of exercises to learn strategies to develop a positive relationship with their baby, promote their baby’s development and help teach their baby new skills and behaviours.

• Solihull Approach Online – Understanding your pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby.

This course has the same content as an antenatal group.  It integrates the traditional information given on an antenatal course with a new approach to starting the relationship with baby before they even make an appearance!

It explains how and why you are so important to this baby, whether you are the mother, father, partner, grandparent or birth partner.  The course has content that can be trusted. It was developed by Registered Midwives working with Clinical Psychologists and Health Visitors in the Solihull Approach team.

• Henry (Health, Exercise and Nutrition for the Really Young)

Is a programme designed to support parents and families holistically at healthy lifestyles. From pregnancy, breastfeeding, starting solids, nutrition and get children active and ready for school, oral health and emotional wellbeing.  There are 8-week programmes Families Right from the Start and Preparing for Parenthood and a suite of 2-hr workshops.

Interventions for parents of children aged 0 – 12 years

• Solihull Approach Online – Understanding your Baby

Is for everyone around a new baby: supporting baby and family from birth to 12 months.   It gives information about baby's brain development, baby's physical and emotional development.  It integrates the traditional information given on a postnatal course with this new approach around developing relationship with baby. It looks at baby’s sleeping, feeding, crying, playing and childcare options.

• Selected Triple P Seminars

A series of three two-hour seminars that give a broad overview of positive parenting for parents of children 0 – 12.  The topics are:

The Power of Positive Parenting, Raising Confident, Competent Children and Raising Resilient Children 

• Triple P Discussion Groups

A series of two-hour standalone small group sessions that target a specific behaviour problem. Topics are: Fighting & Aggression, Bedtime Routines, Hassle-free Shopping, Dealing with Disobedience and Hassle-free mealtimes.

• Group Triple P

A small group course that gives parents a comprehensive understanding of positive parenting and 17 parenting strategies.  8-week programme made up of 5 two-hour sessions with three short support phone calls.

• Standard Triple P

A course of ten individual consultations gives parents a tailored and comprehensive plan for managing a range of complex behaviour and parenting issues.

• Triple P Online

Triple P Online (TPOL) is a self-directed parenting course that is delivered via a smartphone, tablet or computer.  It’s designed to help parents set their own goals, become confident in their ability to manage parenting issues and become self-sufficient problem solvers. There are 8 modules parents have 12 months to complete.

• Solihull Approach Online – Understanding your Child

Is for all parents, grandparents and carers of children aged 0-18 years. This course covers parenting and builds up a way of looking at things that will be helpful for most situations and covers the foundations of wellbeing and mental health.

There are 11 modules that build on the ones before, creating a course. There are interactive activities, quizzes and video clips.  Lifetime access. 

Interventions for parents of Teenagers 11 – 16 years

• Adolescent Programme

Can be delivered over 9 weeks for parents of secondary aged children as a universal programme and can also be delivered for parents whose child is dealing with additional emotional and behavioural concerns.

• Selected Teen Triple P Seminars

A series of three standalone seminars that give a broad overview of positive parenting strategies to help parents of teenagers. The three themes are: Family, School and Community.

• Teen Triple P Discussion Groups

A series of two-hour standalone small group sessions that target a specific teenage behaviour problem or family issue.  Topics are: Getting teenagers’ to cooperate, Coping with teenagers’ Emotions, Building teenagers’ Survival Skills and Reducing Family Conflict.

• Group Teen Triple P

A small group course that gives parents a comprehensive understanding of positive parenting and 17 teenagers parenting strategies.  8-week programme made up of 5 two-hour sessions with three short support phone calls.

• Standard Teen Triple P

A course of ten individual consultations gives parents a tailored and comprehensive plan for managing a range of complex teen behaviour and parenting issues.

• Teen Triple P Online (TPOL)

TPOL is a self-directed parenting course that is delivered via a smartphone, tablet or computer.  It’s designed to help parents set their own goals, become confident in their ability to manage parenting issues and become self-sufficient problem solvers. 

Interventions for parents of children with a physical disability or neurodiversity

• Solihull Approach Online– Understanding your child with additional needs

For parents, relatives and friends of children who may have a physical or learning disability or who may have autistic traits, within the SEND (Special educational needs and disability) system.

Level 1 lays the foundation for understanding your child. Level 2 looks at some particular aspects of parenting: sleeping and anger management, together with more about how we interact with each other.

• Group Stepping Stones Triple P

For parents of a child with a disability.  A small group course that gives parents comprehensive understanding of strategies for behaviour management and to teach new skills.  9-week programme made up of six sessions with three short support phone calls.

• ADHD Programme

For parents of a child with a child on the pathway or diagnosed with ADHD aged 6 to 12 years old.  It gives parents a greater understanding of ADHD and it’s challenges and gives parents helpful solution focused therapeutic strategies to improve the relationship and build their child’s self-esteem and encourage positive behaviours.

Interventions for relationships/ reducing parental conflict

• Solihull Approach Online – Understanding your relationships

This course is for anyone who is in a relationship.  It covers feelings, communication, conflict in relationships, anger, repair and more.

Interventions for separated parents of children all ages

• Family Transitions Triple P

A five-week small group parenting course for parents whose separation or divorce is complicating their parenting.

Interventions for parents of children with anxiety

• Fear-less Triple P (see below)

For parents of children aged 6 – 14 years with moderate to high levels of anxiety that negatively impact on everyday functioning.

Delivered to parents in 6 group or individual sessions.  Can be delivered as 1-day or 3 x 2-hour workshops.

Interventions for child to parent aggression

• Non-Violent Resistance (NVR)

This approach addresses controlling, aggressive and harmful behaviours in children and adolescents towards parents.  NVR principles and strategies are currently delivered individually to parents.  There is a 9-week programme called Rebuilding Relationships, this covers all of the NVR principles.

Fear-less Triple P

Supporting Parents of Children with Anxiety

What is Fear-less Triple P?

It’s a cognitive-behavioural parenting intervention, that supports parents to help children manage their anxiety more effectively.

Fear-less Triple P aims to help parents to:

• Set a good example of coping with anxiety
• Coach their children to become more emotionally resilient
• Develop a toolbox of strategies for helping children to manage their anxiety
• Choose the most effective ways to respond to their children’s anxiety

Who is it for?

The programme is for parents/ caregivers who have children aged from 6 to 14 years with anxiety that causes significant distress or impacts on their everyday life, such as school refusal.  It may also be attended by parents who are waiting for clinical services, such as CAMHS.

The programme can be delivered with 6 x 2-hour sessions

What is covered on the programme?

Session 1

Parents learn about anxiety and how it works, it’s development and continuation and reflect on how it impacts their family. 

Session 2

Parents are introduced to strategies that promote emotional resilience that encourage their children to express, tolerate and manage uncomfortable emotions more effectively.

Session 3

This introduces; parental modelling, understanding children’s emotional reactions.  It also covers how thoughts can affect the development and maintenance of anxiety,  and teaching parents to encourage flexible-thinking in children.

Session 4

Parents learn about avoidance, the most common response to anxiety.  Introduced to the ‘fear ladder’, a tool used to gradually confront and overcome anxiety.

Session 5

Looks at the most common ways parents respond to children’s anxiety, and the advantages and disadvantages of each.  Parents are encouraged to reflect on which responses are relevant to them and what they might do differently.

Session 6

Parents are introduced to step-by-step problem-solving approach to help children manage their anxiety. It also covers guidelines on how to maintain positive changes over time.