PARENTS PLUS EARLY YEARS PROGRAMME

A Practical and Positive Guide to Parenting Young Children Aged One to Six
John Sharry, Grainne Hampson, Mary Fanning

Drawing on well-researched ideas about child development, and parent-child communication, the Parents Plus ‘Early Years’ Programme is ideal for parents who want to maximise their children’s learning, language and social development, as well reduce behaviour problems, while ensuring their children grow up happy and emotionally secure. The programme is suitable both for children within the normal range of development as well as children with special needs such as ADHD, speech and language and other development problems.

Topics include:

• Being a Responsive Parent
• Encouraging and Supporting Children
• Promoting Children’s Language and Development
• Helping Children Concentrate and Learn
• Building Cooperation in Young Children
• Managing Tantrums, Misbehaviour and Problems

Authors:
The material was written and developed by Dr. John Sharry, Social Worker and Psychotherapist, Grainne Hampson and Mary Fanning, Speech and Language Therapists at the Department of Child and Family Psychiatry at the Mater Hospital in Dublin. The material was developed in consultation with colleagues in the Mater Hospital and in partnership with over forty parents and children who attended the Mater service along with other parents and children from the community.

A second edition of the PPEY manual was published in May 2009. We strongly encourage all facilitators to exchange their manual for the new edition which can be done at a small admin cost.

A short community version of the PPEY, known as the Parents Together Course , was developed in association with NCI in 2009- please contact us if interested in this version.