Media Release: Families feeling the pressure. Men’s Health Week highlights the impact on dad’s mental health

Triple P: Positive Parenting Program

Positive parenting is simply an approach to parenting that gives parents and carers tools and strategies to raise their child in an environment that is safe, loving and predictable. Triple P’s positive parenting program allows each person doing the program to decide what is important to them. So, it’s not telling you how to raise children but giving you the confidence and skills to build good relationships, set boundaries and rules calmly and in ways that kids understand, and follow up with consequences that are not harmful.

Dr Alan Ralph, Head of Training and Clinical Psychologist with The Triple P – Positive Parenting ProgramDr Alan Ralph, Head of Training and Clinical Psychologist with The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program, said, “the mental health and wellbeing of fathers is worsening amidst rising financial pressures and work-life balance struggles…” to learn more, read the official media release linked here or head to www.triplep-parenting.net.au

Did you know: Triple P is ranked by the United Nations as the most extensively researched parenting program in the world and is backed by four decades of ongoing research? Triple P has helped millions of children and their families; is used in more than 30 countries and has been translated into 23 languages other than English.  More than 105,000 practitioners have been trained in its delivery.