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Empower your parenting journey

Regain confidence, reduce stress, and enhance children’s wellbeing with our family systems based resources.

We provide unique family systems programs that assist parents in discovering what they can adjust to help children flourish. Our resources include podcasts and articles, with books, online courses and training.

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Parenting Courses

Support your child’s wellbeing with our family systems approach to parenting. Free, short course and more in depth online courses with Dr Jenny Brown.

These courses are for individual access. See the training menu for organisation access.

Parenting for Flourishing Children

Free course, 2 weeks access

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Cultivating Confident Parenting

1 Part Course, $25 1 month access 

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The Confident Parent Course

4-part course, $99 five months access

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Research and the development of the Parent Hope Project

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Podcasts and Articles

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How Bowen Family Systems Builds Hope for Worried Parents

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  • 12/09/2024
In this Episode Jenny is back in the hosting seat with guest Dan Papero. Dr Jenny Brown draws on Dan’s rich experience as a Bowen family systems scholar, teacher and clinician. They explore how our families are both the seedbed for symptoms and a garden of recovery. They explore how parents can contribute to their…
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Co-regulation or Self-regulation in Parenting

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  • 01/07/2024
In this episode the tables are turned! Last week’s guest, Michelle Varcoe, interviews Dr Jenny Brown to discuss: To hear more about Michelle go to Season 2 Episode 4 or see links below. About Dr Jenny Brown:Dr Jenny Brown has over 35 years of clinical experience in child, couple, and family health. Her primary clinical…
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Banning smartphones? How can parents respond to the mental health crisis in our young people?

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  • 14/05/2024
Banning smartphones? Setting age restrictions for social media? How can parents respond to the mental health crisis in our young people and the link to smartphone use?
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Books

Parenting Resources

Parenting with Clarity

Parenting with Clarity: A Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Their Supporters Who Want to Contribute to Children’s Flourishing
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Growing yourself up:

How to bring your best to all of life’s relationships

Discover how relationships are central to growing in responsibility and maturity.

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Parenting with Clarity

Parenting with Clarity: A Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Their Supporters Who Want to Contribute to Children’s Flourishing
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Growing yourself up:

How to bring your best to all of life’s relationships

Discover how relationships are central to growing in responsibility and maturity.

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Parent Hope Project Manuals

Available for purchase as eBook and paperback through your preferred online bookseller or Amazon AU or Amazon US.

These manuals are designed for working with a trained Parent Hope clinician, and are not self-help manuals. Each parent will require their own copy of the manual; digital or hard copy.

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Extra course resources

The course extension provides 6 weeks further access to your training course. The digital version of the manual available here is a non-write pdf, with your email watermarked on each page.

Articles for Professionals

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New Book – Facilitating Parents’ Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

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  • 17/08/2023
Dr Jenny Brown has a new book “Facilitating Parents’ Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Helplessness to Hope”.
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Time to De-medicalise Children’s Mental Health

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  • 15/05/2023
What is the effect of parents representing themselves to their children instead of trying to fix or change their children? A parent’s connection is especially relevant when helping children navigate their screens. Parents can have regular, curious conversations with their children about what is safe and healthy online and what is dangerous and unhealthy.
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Hope for Parents- Parent Hope Project review by Dave Galloway

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  • 27/03/2023
A Manualized Process to Give Parents Hope; a review of the Parent Hope Project professional program by Dave Galloway, Living Systems Counselling Canada.

“We Don’t Need Your Help, But Will You Please Fix Our Children?”

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  • 17/11/2020
“We Don’t Need Your Help, But Will You Please Fix Our Children?” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) Vol.29 No.2 pp. 61-69. 2008. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpts Without a systems view, problems in a child will be explained with linear cause and effect thinking. When parenting deficits are seen as primary contributors to a…

[Video] Family Matters: Parents Focused on “Fixing” Children

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  • 18/11/2020
In this edition of Family Matters, I talk with Dr. Jenny Brown about how she helps parents think about children with mental health challenges. We’ll explore how parents’ work on themselves can help foster maturity and resilience in their children. Dr. Brown is the founder and director of The Family Systems Institute in Sydney, Australia.

Engaging with parents in adolescent mental health services

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  • 18/11/2020
Engaging with parents in adolescent mental health services, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, June 2020 doi: 10.1002/anzf.1409 Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpts As a family therapy supervisor in the child and adolescent mental health field over some decades, it is common for the author to hear clinicians express the challenges of developing a…

EXCERPT 1: “Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018 Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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  • 18/11/2020
“Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018  Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpt 1 Findings Parent helplessness and hope invested in external treatment The longitudinal journey revealed changes across the course of parents’ treatment experience. A compelling ‘meta’ theme that emerged from the initial…

EXCERPT 2: “Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018 Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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  • 18/11/2020
“Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018  Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpt 2 In a matter of only ten to twelve weeks, parents experienced: starting at Redbank with its associated respite, relief and misgivings; ongoing involvement in regular family and parent sessions; and…

EXCERPT 3: “Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018 Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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  • 18/11/2020
“Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018  Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpt 3 The high and moderate hope parents all described ways their treatment involvement provided an opportunity to observe the way they were relating to their child and consider what wasn’t working:…

The reciprocity between parents and their child’s mental health treatment systems, Family Systems

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  • 18/11/2020
The reciprocity between parents and their child’s mental health treatment systems, Family Systems: A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences, 14:2, 2020 Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpts Any treatment may achieve some symptom relief for a child even if it does not address the underlying parental process. This can occur through anxiety…