The training period for parents begins. Triple P-Positive Parenting Training will add a lot to you and your family.

Many parents raise their children in their own way without any training. Triple P-Positive Parenting Training, which aims to help parents raise their children in the right way, teaches parents new approach methods.

Üsküdar University NPISTANBUL Hospital Child - Adolescent Psychiatry Specialist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emel Sarı Gökten gave important information about child-rearing methods and Triple P-Positive Parenting Training.

An 8-week training process awaits parents

"Raising a child is a very difficult and laborious process. Every parent may feel helpless, inadequate and blame themselves for their children's problem behaviors at certain periods while raising their children." Assist. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emel Sarı Gökten said the following:

"However, most parents have not received any training in child rearing. They apply the methods they have learned or seen from their own parents to their children. However, they may not know how valid or correct these methods are. In this training, parents go through an 8-week program. In the first four weeks, parents attend 4 sessions, each lasting 2 hours. In these sessions, they receive practical theoretical training on the importance of positive parenting, the causes of children's behavior problems, and methods of coping with behavior problems. In the following 3 weeks, the practitioner calls the parents once a week and continues to support them in applying what they have learned. In the 8th week, the parents come together for the last time and evaluate the program and its results together with the practitioner and learn what they need to do in the long-term process."

Prepared by the University of Queensland, Australia

Stating that Triple P-Positive Parenting Training is a very effective program in solving the problems faced by parents in raising children, ensuring healthy development of children, strengthening social skills and problem solving skills, Gökten said, "It was created by the Department of Psychology of Queensland University in Australia and its effectiveness has been confirmed by hundreds of scientific researches conducted in at least 40 countries all over the world."

Stating that this training is widely implemented in 40 countries around the world and that parents are equipped, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emel Sarı Gökten said, "Parents are taught the healthiest and most positive way to raise children who are of eternal importance for the future. However, the program was implemented for the first time in our country in 2008 at 9 Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. A project was established in a small district of Izmir, where the program was applied to parents, and at the end of the application, it was determined that the parents benefited from the program. In 2018, the first course was opened to increase the number of Triple P-Positive Parenting Training practitioners and efforts were made to expand the program."

The program increases parents' competence in raising children

Assist. Prof. Dr. Emel Sarı Gökten stated that positive parenting, encouraging the development of their children and methods of coping with problematic behavior are studied in the program and said, "Thanks to the program, the competence of parents in raising children will increase and as a result, social and language skills, emotional skills, independence skills and problem solving skills will be developed in children."

Assist. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emel Sarı Gökten listed the goals of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program as follows:

1. To increase the competence of parents in controlling behavioral and developmental problems in children.
2. To reduce the use of punitive and coercive parenting attitudes.
3. To improve parents' communication about parenting.
4. To reduce child rearing anxiety.

"In order to increase the prevalence of the program and to help parents in this regard, we aim to create parent groups within our hospital and start implementing the Triple P-Positive parenting program," said Assist. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emel Sarı Gökten and informed that the program will be started by creating small family groups with volunteer parents who have children in a similar age group and who want to learn the program.