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Parent Hope Project Manuals

These manuals are designed for working with a trained Parent Hope clinician/coach, and are not self-help manuals. Each client/parent will require their own copy; digital or hard copy.

Clinician/Coach manuals are available when a Clinician registers for training.

Purchase 5 or more hard copy manuals in a single transaction for 15% off. 

Prices in AUD (incl. Tax)

Important Ordering Information

Physical Manuals:

  • Can take 10-14 days to deliver.
  • Contact us at contact@parentproject.com.au if you need them urgently and live in Sydney.
  • When entering your shipping address, please ensure each line does not exceed 30 characters in length.

Digital manuals:

  • Are only downloadable once, so please download the manual to the device you wish to view the manual on (as soon as possible before the link expires).
  • Contact us at contact@parentproject.com.au if you have any problems.

Other Course Resources

The course extension provides 6 weeks further access to your training course. The group facilitation workbooks are for organisations access to the workbook, when an outside facilitator is delivering the Confident Parent Course.

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New Book – Facilitating Parents’ Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

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  • 17/08/2023
Dr Jenny Brown has a new book “Facilitating Parents’ Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Helplessness to Hope”.
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How the worry cycle plays out in schools

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  • 28/06/2023
Levels of diagnosis for behavioural and learning difficulties are incredibly high, often with 50% of kids on specialised learning plans. How can schools keep up with this demand? Is the worry cycle contributing to this phenomenon in schools?
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Time to De-medicalise Children’s Mental Health

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  • 15/05/2023
What is the effect of parents representing themselves to their children instead of trying to fix or change their children? A parent’s connection is especially relevant when helping children navigate their screens. Parents can have regular, curious conversations with their children about what is safe and healthy online and what is dangerous and unhealthy.
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Hope for Parents- Parent Hope Project review by Dave Galloway

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  • 27/03/2023
A Manualized Process to Give Parents Hope; a review of the Parent Hope Project professional program by Dave Galloway, Living Systems Counselling Canada.

“We Don’t Need Your Help, But Will You Please Fix Our Children?”

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“We Don’t Need Your Help, But Will You Please Fix Our Children?” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) Vol.29 No.2 pp. 61-69. 2008. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpts Without a systems view, problems in a child will be explained with linear cause and effect thinking. When parenting deficits are seen as primary contributors to a…

[Video] Family Matters: Parents Focused on “Fixing” Children

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  • 18/11/2020
In this edition of Family Matters, I talk with Dr. Jenny Brown about how she helps parents think about children with mental health challenges. We’ll explore how parents’ work on themselves can help foster maturity and resilience in their children. Dr. Brown is the founder and director of The Family Systems Institute in Sydney, Australia.

Engaging with parents in adolescent mental health services

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  • 18/11/2020
Engaging with parents in adolescent mental health services, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, June 2020 doi: 10.1002/anzf.1409 Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpts As a family therapy supervisor in the child and adolescent mental health field over some decades, it is common for the author to hear clinicians express the challenges of developing a…

EXCERPT 1: “Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018 Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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“Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018  Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpt 1 Findings Parent helplessness and hope invested in external treatment The longitudinal journey revealed changes across the course of parents’ treatment experience. A compelling ‘meta’ theme that emerged from the initial…

EXCERPT 2: “Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018 Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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“Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018  Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpt 2 In a matter of only ten to twelve weeks, parents experienced: starting at Redbank with its associated respite, relief and misgivings; ongoing involvement in regular family and parent sessions; and…

EXCERPT 3: “Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018 Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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“Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018  Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpt 3 The high and moderate hope parents all described ways their treatment involvement provided an opportunity to observe the way they were relating to their child and consider what wasn’t working:…

The reciprocity between parents and their child’s mental health treatment systems, Family Systems

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The reciprocity between parents and their child’s mental health treatment systems, Family Systems: A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences, 14:2, 2020 Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpts Any treatment may achieve some symptom relief for a child even if it does not address the underlying parental process. This can occur through anxiety…

Also see our page of Resources for Parents which help explain the Parent Hope Project principles with practical examples.