Program components | Program process to address underlying causes | Short term participant and family impact | Long term impact |
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Caregiver sessions Goal: Normalise and manage stress Improve parenting confidence and develop positive parenting strategies Enancing resources to deal with stress Child sessions Goal: Improve mental health outcomes, better deal with stress, reduce challenging behaviour Family sessions Goal: Improved communication and relationships | Decrease risk factors Favourable attitudes towards coercive parenting strategies; Poor family management skills High levels of stress Environment favouring early initiation of drug use and of conflict and violenc Increase protective factors Improved family interaction Enhanced relationships, non-violent discipline, prosocial involvement, caregiver social support | Improved caregiver confidence in family management skills Improved caregiving in parenting skills Improved child behaviour Reduced aggressive and hostile behaviours Increased capacity to cope with stress Improved mental health outcomes in children and parents | Reduction in violence Reduction in substance abuse Reduction in risky behaviours Improved mental health for caregivers and children |