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Validate
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Strengthen parents’ confidence in their own ability.
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Encourage parents’ work with the ABC: "It sounds like you had a breakthrough moment with ABCD although the time was short, wonderful!"
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Be a model for the parents.
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Treat parents emphatically: "It sounds like you’ve had a rough week, no wonder you feel tired."
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Create a permissive atmosphere so that parents dare raise difficulties.
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Encourage parents’ responses and contributions.
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Activate
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Increase participation.
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Return questions:
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Maintain the interest of the parents.
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1. What are your thoughts about this?
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2. Does anybody else have any comments?
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Encourage activity of the parents when this is desirable.
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Wait for the parents’ response. Give them time to think of discussion questions.
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Ensure that everyone gets the same opportunity to talk
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Let the parents discuss in small groups.
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Structure
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Increase clarity.
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Start and end the meeting on time.
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Stick to the content of the material and bring the discussion back to the theme.
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Write the agenda on the board or flip chart.
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Go through the hits according to group leader material.
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Cancel discussions that drift from the subject and return to contents by thanking for the comments, summarizing and moving on.
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Talk in behavioral terms: “What does Karin do when she is angry?”, “What do you do?”
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