Overview of the Parents Under Pressure Program
The PuP program is intended to be delivered on a one to one basis, preferably in the family's home. A Therapist Manual provides the theoretical overview behind the PuP program and the Parents Workbook is given to the family and forms the basis of the treatment program.
Modules contain many different exercises that help the parent work towards their own parenting goals. The Parent Workbook is seen as a buffet of options to choose from rather than a recipe to follow.
The art of PuP therapy is to use the program creatively, acknowledging the unique needs and resources of each family.
Module 1: Starting the PuP Journey
The first module of the PuP program aims to assist parents understand the diverse problems they face and how these problems act to make parenting difficult. A shared understanding of a family's current concerns, strengths and areas of difficulty is the basis for working together to make family life better.
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Module 2: Planning My PuP Journey
Module 2 provides feedback on the assessment, arrives at shared goals to work towards, and develops a way of monitoring progress towards goals. This module also looks at the potential involvement of partners or other carers in the PuP program.
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Module 3: View Of Self as a Parent
Module 3 of the Parents Under Pressure program aims to help parents reflect on their view of themselves as parents and help find and believe in evidence of their parental competency.
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Module 4: Connecting With Your Child to Help Them Feel Loved and Safe
Module 4 is aimed at promoting a positive parent-child relationship. This involves encouraging sensitive and responsive parenting to provide the maximum opportunity for the development of a nurturing and loving relationship.
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Module 5: Understanding What May Happen When Children Are Exposed To Trauma Or Loss
Module 5 address trauma and loss. Many people, including children from an early age, have experienced difficult life events. At times children may have felt scared, lost, abandoned or unloved. Maybe they have lost a parent or caregiver through death or separation. Maybe they have witnessed violence or been involved in violence themselves.
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Module 6: Health Check Your Child
Module 6 is designed to open up a discussion on health, hygiene and nutrition. These are often difficult topics to raise with parents but all are really important to the well being of children.
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Module 7: How To Manage Emotions When Under Pressure: Increasing Mindful Awareness
The aim of Module 7 is to teach and encourage the use of emotional regulation and self-soothing skills.
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Module 8: Supporting Your Child To Develop Self Regulation
Module 8 is aimed at providing parents withe strategies they can use to improve their child's self-regulation. There are many times when young children have trouble settling and focusing their attention. It is likely they will misbehave-all children do at times. Children also have difficulty managing their emotions. All this can affect other people and sometimes breaking rules puts your child and other people at risk.
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Module 9: Managing Substance Use Problems
Module 9 aims to ensure that parents are not drinking at risky levels or at risk of developing substance abuse problems. The module looks at the skills needed to avoid this and helps build confidence to avoid substance use problems. For those who have already developed a substance use problem, strategies are discussed that help ensure that potential lapses to use do not become relapses.
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Module 10: Connecting With Family, Community And Culture
Module 10 is about connecting with family, community and culture. Support can come from extending social networks. Beyond this, a sense of connection is a source of strength and important in developing a sense of identity as a member of community and what that may involve culturally.
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Module 11: Life Skills
Module 11 aims to teach parents practical life skills where these do not exist. Life skills include budgeting, nutrition, health care, obtaining housing etc.
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Module 12: Relationships
Module 12 addresses issues around communication skills and other problems in adult intimate relationships. This moduleis used when the parent would benefit from learning how to communicate effectively with their partner or when their relationship is experiencing difficulties.
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Closure
The completion of the PuP program can be a time of mixed emotions for both parent and therapist. For many it is a time of joyful celebration. It might be the first time the parent has successfully completed anything in their lives, let alone concrete evidence that they are in control of parenting.
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