180 World Experts on Helping Families Change
If you are interested in the recent trend of parenting methods around the world, here’s a big event for keeping yourself well informed.
About 180 parenting experts from around the world will meet at The University of Queensland on Thursday and Friday for the sixth annual Helping Families Change Conference.
The conference would reveal the developments in child and family welfare, childhood obesity and family and parenting methods, said Prof. Matt Sanders, UQ psychologist and co-organiser of the conference. The conference will also cover the results of a Canadian parenting study and the success of UQ’s own Triple P — Positive Parenting Program in the United States, Japan and Australia.
What is Triple P? It was developed over 25 years by Professor Sanders’ UQ team to strengthen families and is being used in 14 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America. Moreover, Triple P provides parents with different resources including individual consultations, group programme, seminar series, self help booklets and tips sheets.
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