The Fully Present Parent: Piloting a New Parenting Program

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Harbour View Room 1
Friday, March 22, 2019
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Harbour View Room 1

Overview

Michelle Andrews Luke


Presenter

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Dr Michelle Andrews Luke

The Fully Present Parent: Piloting a New Parenting Program

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Abstract

Parenting practices have a major influence on child development and behaviour. Many new parents are motivated to develop and enhance their parenting skills so that they can raise children who thrive. The Fully Present Parent: Parenting in the Here-and-Now and Prioritising What Matters Most, a new parenting program, aims to provide parents with practical tools and techniques to help them to parent with more confidence and joy and to raise resilient children. It brings together current scientific developments in neurobiology and attachment theory, and emphasises that a secure and loving parent-child relationship is the foundation of effective parenting and healthy child development. This paper will introduce the program, it’s theoretical basis, and the benefits as identified by participants. This paper will also present information about what contributes to a successful parenting program.

Biography

Michelle Andrews Luke, DEdPsych, is the director of The Flourishing Child, a private psychology practice in Melbourne, Australia. She has extensive experience working as a researcher, lecturer, and educational and developmental psychologist in government schools, independent schools, and universities, and holds a doctorate of educational psychology from the University of Melbourne. Her main areas of expertise are in child and adolescent stress and coping and relationship-based parenting.

Session Chairs

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Janene Swalwell


Student Volunteers

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Ashlee Withers
University of Tasmania

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Marissa Yi-Hsuan Wu
University of Melbourne

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