Positive parenting and building respect

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Positive parenting and building respect

• Claire Halsey
• Consultant Clinical Psychologist
• North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
• www.firststepsstoke.co.uk
• www.triplep.net

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Whats the problem?

• The Public say that low level crime, anti social
  behaviour and disrespect are big concerns.
• Anti social behaviour is expensive emotionally
  and financially at 3.4 billion a year.
• We can predict those children who are likely to
  go on to engage in crime and anti social
  behaviour.
• We know how to do something about it.

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Can we build respect?Social and emotional
building blocks
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Good parenting is the key

• Foundations for childrens social and emotional
  skills and relationships are laid in the early
  years
• Parents teach by example a childs values, skills
  and behaviours
• Parenting practices influence whether children
• develop confidence
• reach their potential
• get on well with others

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Behaviours related to respect
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Longer term consequences of not intervening
early

• Poor relationships with others (few friends,
  failed love relationships)
• Low resilience
• Poor qualifications and work history
• Low frustration tolerance
• Easily upset and see threat everywhere
• Greater involvement in antisocial behaviour and
  drug misuse
• Families who feel let down, upset, angry or
  powerless.

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Financial costs of of not intervening early
Costs to age 28
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Can you teach good parenting?

• An example Program
• The Triple P-Positive Parenting Program

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Triple P and building respect resilience
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Long term change after Triple P
All have moved from the clinical to normal range
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Getting more parents involved - who?
A The worried well B Easy to reach C Do not
approach for a service and have no need for a
service D Hard to reach / Left out, those who
need, but do not wish to access a service. (from
Eisenstadt 2002)
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Getting more parents involved - how?

• Be inclusive, normalize and destigmatize
  parenting programs
• Use multiple access points and delivery
  modalities (not just parenting groups)
• Listen to what parents say they want

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Trying harder to make parenting support
accessible

• Reminder letters ? 23
• Text message alerts
• Reminder telephone calls ? 22
• Contracting with the client a formal agreement
  to attend ?14
• Orientation video ?34
• Transport to services an offer to help sort
  out logistics
• ?22
• Active problem solving ? 17
• Local venues, home visiting and out of hours
  services.

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Key messages

• A successful parenting program needs to
• Be chosen from those that really work.
• Be delivered by well trained, skilled staff who
  have ongoing support.
• Use engagement strategies and enforcement if
  needed.
• Have good links to universal services who are not
  afraid to refer.

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Conclusions

• Parenting interventions are amongst the most
  powerful and cost effective interventions
  available
• Good parenting should be the centre piece of
  efforts to improve developmental outcomes for
  children