Family Transitions Triple P parenting programme

This parenting programme is designed to support parents who are making the transition through separation and/ or divorce. The parenting course helps parents to find ways of coping with their emotions and manage the stresses and demands following separation, manage or reduce conflict, promote their child/children’s development and move towards a new family identity.

The course overview

The course is divided into 5 x 2 hour sessions, which can be set up with a group or arranged on an individual basis at a time that is suitable. They can be online or in person.

The 5 sessions, focus on the following:

1. The separation/divorce – focusing on the challenges that you face during this transition and how you can make changes to improve your own and your children’s well-being during this time and following separation; how to make as positive a transition as possible through the separation for both parents and children

2. Coping with emotions – focusing on how emotions work and how they affect each of you as parents and your children, providing ways of managing unpleasant emotions and finding ways of staying calm in stressful situations.

3. Coping with emotions – as above, focusing on finding ways to manage emotions and develop coping strategies to use in stressful situations

4. Managing conflict – focusing on improving communication between you both as parents to improve or establish a co-parenting relationship, developing strategies to deal with and manage conversations with an angry parent so as not to escalate the anger further and finding ways of managing differences of opinion to find mutual solutions that meet the needs of your children

5. Balancing work and family – focusing on developing a new family identity as a separated family and creating a plan to give a better balance between work, family and time for one’s self

Skills based

The course is designed so that it provides appropriate information and skills needed to practise the strategies suggested, as soon as possible. Parents are asked to reflect on discussions and complete small tasks in between sessions as this increases the benefits parents gain by undertaking the course.

If both parents wish to undertake the course, which is always recommended but not essential, they would not usually attend the course at the same time as each other.

The Triple P programme, was designed by a team of clinical psychologists at the University of Queensland and has been extensively researched over decades in many different countries and was utilised by the DWP in their reducing parental conflict programme based on the extensive evidence based research. See https://www.triplep.net/glo-en/the-triple-p-system-at-work/evidence-based/

Key research findings can be found here: https://www.triplep.net/glo-en/the-triple-p-system-at-work/evidence-based/key-research-findings/

Costs

The costs of the Family Transition Triple P positive parenting programme are:

Group sessions of 4 (min) – 8 (max) parents: £350 per person for 5 x 2 hour sessions

Individual one to one sessions: £750 for 5 x 2 hour sessions

If you as a parent or parents that you are working with in your professional capacity, would like to take part in this programme, please contact Adrienne Cox on ac@devexmediation.co.uk or call on 01392 409094 for more information.The programme will be delivered by Adrienne Cox, an accredited Family Transitions Triple P course provider. For more information about Adrienne, see https://devexmediation.co.uk/pages/the-mediator/the-mediator/100

Testimonials

The mediations sessions that my husband and I received helped us enormously to discuss in an amicable way our finances going forward in our divorce and therefore reaching a settlement amicably. The sessions we received via zoom worked extremely well especially as my husband was then living abroad enabling us to carry on with the process in a manner which didn't instigate relationship tensions which both parties felt developed during negotiations with our respective solicitors.

Adrienne remained professional and sensitive to the upset and trauma that divorce can cause to either party. I felt that her mediation was clear, time efficient and with the ability to diffuse situations which at times became heated in a gentle but controlled manner.

I would most certainly have no hesitation in recommending Adrienne to anyone who unfortunately finds themselves going through a divorce. I would like to add that mediation not only saved my husband and I most certainly large solicitor fees but more than this it has enabled us to separate in an amicable way which at one time felt impossible. After 11 years of marriage this has been a gift in order to remember the good that we had together and not to be bitter because of the nature of the divorce process.

I can't fully express really just how helpful, reassuring and supportive I found working with you to be. You helped me to find a way through such difficult discussions and decisions at such a confusing and vulnerable time. Thank you so very much.

I was really pleased with it. I felt comfortable that we were going through things with a level headed, tactful guide.

I cannot think of any way to improve your service. It was especially tricky through lockdown and the fact that we were able to keep meeting in a safe, supportive and productive way was amazing.

Mediation with you exceeded my expectations. Having had several sessions with a different mediation service, I was apprehensive and actually pretty fearful of how the process would leave me feeling. You always made me feel reassured and I felt that our family was in good hands. Your calm and sensitive approach, along with your considerable expertise was invaluable and I so appreciated your honesty and objectivity. I always felt listened to and that the whole experience was impartial and balanced, with the welfare of the girls at the centre of everything. I would have been happy and confident for you to meet with the girls had we reached that point, knowing that you would be sensitive to them and their needs too.

Thank you so much for all your help and advice. I have found the experience invaluable and still often refer back to some of the things we talked about to guide my decisions and actions.

You were very helpful and approachable and fair. You kept us on track when conversations went off on a tangent & allowed us to reach a satisfactory conclusion.

I would highly recommend Adrienne Cox for any couple who is going through a divorce ( and especially where a young child is involved as was in our situation ). Adrienne is very professional, highly skilled and knowledgeable.

It has been a long road with many ups and downs between myself and my husband but Adrienne has always remained very professional, neutral and very patient. We got there in the end, thanks to Adrienne,with an amicable, healthy relationship between ourselves which is the best outcome possible for our Son and a clearer future for us all.

I was very impressed with your professional service and the way the sessions were conducted in a calm and understanding environment.

I am satisfied and convinced that I couldn't have found a more competent, professional and sympathetic mediator and mediation service than that offered by yourself and your mediation service.

Just to let you know that the consent order has now been approved, the house transferred and the decree of absolute through, so all done and dusted thanks to mediation.

I didn't know what to expect having never been through it before but was very satisfied with your service. I really didn't know where to turn but your service really helped me.

The client reported that the mediation with you was really good. You were understanding but firm and he said he thought they had all come away from mediation feeling progress had been made with them all having compromised.