The Group Triple P Provider Training Course trains practitioners to deliver a broad focused parenting support program to groups of parents with children (aged 0 to 12 years). Group Triple P is suitable for parents with concerns about their child’s behavior or who wish to learn a variety of parenting skills that will promote their child’s development and potential. Group Triple P is suitable as a universal prevention strategy where it is offered to parents entering an early intervention or school age service. Group Triple P is delivered to parents over the course of 8 weeks. The program involves 5 (2 hour) group sessions that educate and actively train skills, and three (15 to 30 minute) individual telephone consultations that follow a self-regulatory format to facilitate independent problem solving. The Group Triple P Provider Training Course comprises of attendance at a 3-day training program, followed some weeks later by demonstration of knowledge andcompetence in program delivery through a skills-based accreditation process.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this program, practitioners will have knowledge and skills in the following areas:
• Application of key parenting strategies to a broad range of target behaviors.
• Strategies for promoting generalization and maintenance of behavior change.
• Use of active skills training strategies in a group format.
• Group dynamics and common process issues.
• Telephone support consultations with parents.
• Identification of indicators suggesting more intervention is required.
• Appropriate referral procedures.
• Risk and protective factors operating within families.