This programme is a preventative approach to provide intensive mental health and social support for parents with children on the edge of care. It is trauma informed and trauma responsive. It includes skills from third generation cognitive behavioural approaches and also eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy (EMDR) to target trauma directly.
Objectives:
- Increase insight into problem behaviour from trauma-informed and strengths-based perspectives
- Increase emotional management skills and apply to problem behaviour
- Improve conflict resolution skills and apply to problem behaviour
- Increase stress management skills
- Increase ability to reflect on self-states and how others may be thinking and feeling
- Reduce parents’ symptoms of trauma