Goal 1
Parents will report increased parenting skills, confidence, and satisfaction in their parenting-related occupations and activities.
Parenting with Confidence: Skills for Parents with Mental Health Challenges
Supporting parents facing mental health challenges to enhance parenting skills and strengthen family bonds, ultimately improving overall well-being and quality of life.
What is Parenting With Confidence?
This program was developed by a mental health occupational therapist as a doctoral capstone project. It is a peer-reviewed, evidence-driven program. The objective of the PWC program is to build parents skills and support through learning and using positive parenting skills, identifying, and using individual coping strategies to manage the symptoms of their illness as they relate to parenting.
Goal 2
Parents will report increased engagement in meaningful family occupations and activities.
Goal 3
Parents will demonstrate decreased stress related to parenting occupations and activities.
Program Description
The program goals are completed through six modules. The content is designed to be flexible and easily adjusted to meet the unique needs of parents and their families. Ideally, parents should complete one 90-minute session per week. This allows time for learning skills and concepts and then taking time to apply what they have learned through the weekly homework activities. The lesson modules are designed to be interactive and include videos, activities, quizzes, worksheets, and a weekly “homework” activity to be completed both alone and with the family.
Session 1
Create
Session 2
Self-Regulate
Session 3
Communicate
Session 4
Mediate
Learn skills to mediate conflicts and set age-appropriate boundaries.
Session 5
Rejuvenate
Taking the needed time to rejuvenate and engage in essential self-care activities.
Session 6
Advocate
Learn to advocate for needs through identifying and creating social and community networks of support and increasing comfort levels when asking for support.