Promoting Positive Parenting

The Centre for Fun and Families is a national voluntary organisation which was established in 1990. Its objective is to empower parents who are experiencing behaviour and communication difficulties with their children. This book both shares with the reader the theoretical ideas that underpin the work of the Centre and provides a practical guide of how to undertake such a programme, thereby enabling the reader to react sensitively and productively to the unforeseen circumstances which are inevitable when running a groupwork programme. Professionals coming to these methods for the first time can work through the text safe in the knowledge that these are tried and tested ways of working, which are known to be effective. At a time when attention is focused on the importance of parenting and the way in which children are brought up, no practitioner working with this field should ignore the message within these covers.