The Parents Under Pressure (PuP) program is an intervention specifically designed for use with multi-problem, high-risk families. Such problems may include depression and anxiety, substance use problems, family conflict and severe financial stress. Often parents with these pressures have limited emotional resources that mean the relationship with children may be problematic. In turn children may have significant behavioural problems. The overarching aim of the PuP program is to help parents facing adversity develop positive and secure relationships with their children in order to reduce problem child behaviours (where they exist), and promote a settled, nurturing and safe family environment.
Professor Sharon Dawe and Dr Paul Harnett have been working with students and fellow researchers for over 10 years on the development of the PuP model. We have published a number of studies on the efficacy of PuP and on related issues (see Publications).
Welcome to the new website
We are very excited to launch the new PuP website. In addition to providing information about the PuP program, the website offers a range of treatment tools to help PuP Therapists in their work. This includes online scoring for all assessment measures, profiles generated of assessment scores, goal setting and monitoring tools and links to other related resources. Access is limited to those either undergoing training or who are Accredited PuP Therapists.
PuP Training Sessions 2009
Our next training session to be conducted in Brisbane is @ Griffith University, Mt Gravatt campus: 2 day intensive: Friday 31st July and Saturday 1st August start 9 am to 4pm 1 day follow up: Friday 18th Sept. start 9 am to 4pm clinical supervision conducted in pairs - times arranged during the 2 day intensive training. Maximum of 10 participants. See supervision and training for details on costs and further on training requirements
For more information about the PuP program, please click here to contact us.