Resources for Parents

Finding Balance in Parenting: Love, Support, and Space  Dr Jenny Brown  The Parent Hope Project approach draws inspiration from Bowen family systems theory, specifically the concept of Differentiation of Self. Murray Bowen describes this as the ability to:  “be emotionally close to members of their own families or to any other person without fusing into…

Guest mini blog – Katie Small counselling katiesmall.com.au It’s a new year and a lot of families are managing an array of big changes including kids starting daycare/preschool/school/high school or kids moving into a new year with new teachers, classrooms and peers.  Change is just one of those things that naturally tends to produce some degree of…

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?

Discovering that your child is self-harming is understandably fear-inducing for any parent. Drawing on Bowen family systems theory, PHP invites parents to consider first how they are responding when safety fears are raised – rather than focusing on the details of the self-harm and diagnoses. In this podcast Jenny Brown interviews leading Child and Adolescent…

(Goal setting – how parents setting applicable goals helps a family to function) In this first episode of 2025, Jenny Brown interviews Philip Klever, a clinician and researcher from Kansas City in the USA.  Philip describes his research and what it reveals about the variations in what goals parents set and together they explore how…

Recent studies have found that several of these programs not only failed to help young people but also made their mental health problems worse. Jenny shares some thoughts about this and links it to the Bowen family system ideas of how focusing on a problem in a person can actually project or amplify that problem….