A Practitioner's Guide to Enhancing Parenting Skills

Professor Judy Hutchings was an NHS Clinical Child Psychologist for 37 years, and since 1988 has also worked as a researcher in Bangor University, where she set up the Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention. She introduced parenting programmes into treatment and preventive services and undertook research trials on services for children with behavioural problems, including developing the EPaS programme. In 2011, she was awarded an OBE for her work with children and families. Dr Margiad Williams’ PhD evaluated the Enhancing Parenting Skills (EPaS) programme in health visiting services across north Wales and Shropshire. She has studied/worked at the Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention since 2009 evaluating programmes for parents, teachers and children.

Part I Background; Chapter 1 Conduct problems and the risk factors for poor outcomes; Chapter 2 Interventions; Chapter 3 The EPaS programme, an early intervention for families at home; Part II, The EPaS programme; Chapter 4 Assessment session 1: setting up an effective working relationship with parents; Chapter 5 Assessment session 1: initial information gathering; Chapter 6 Assessment session 2: the typical day interview and parent record keeping; Chapter 7 Assesment session 3: observing the parent–child interaction and other information sources; Chapter 8 Developing a case analysis; Chapter 9 Sample case analysis; Chapter 10 The intervention plan; Chapter 11 Teaching new behaviour; Chapter 12 Concluding the EPaS intervention; Part III Typical problems; Chapter 13 A bedtime problem; Chapter 14 A morning problem; Chapter 15 A shopping trip; Chapter 16 A toileting problem; Chapter 17 An eating problem; Chapter 18 Avoidance and anxiety-based problems; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Index