Researchers question world's top-ranked parenting resource

It is used in 25 countries, has been translated into 17 languages and ranked by the United Nations as the world's leading parenting program.

But a stoush has broken out over whether the ''Triple P'' - Positive Parenting Program - works as well as claimed, and has led to questions about the public money spent on it.

Triple P is an evidence-based program that aims to help adults understand and manage their child's behaviour to become confident parents. Parents sign up voluntarily, or can be referred to a parent educator by a GP, family counsellor or welfare agency.

Matt Sanders, director of the Parenting and Family Support Centre at the University of Queensland, spent three decades developing the program as it grew into the world's leading parenting resource.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/researchers-question-worlds-topranked-parenting-resource-20130319-2gdla.html#ixzz2O2UrV4d8

Researchers question world's top-ranked parenting resource

Researchers question world's top-ranked parenting resource

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