For Parents

The Power of Positive Parenting seminar helps you to understand why kids behave the way they do and introduces practical strategies to support your child’s social and emotional development.

This seminar will help you to:

• Understand why kids behave the way they do 
• Raise happy, confident kids   
• Get on well with their kids and argue less   
• Manage kids’ behaviour   
• Develop routines that everyone follows   
• Balance work and family with less stress  

The Helping Your Child to Manage Anxiety seminar is designed to equip you with the skills and strategies you need to support your child to manage their emotions and overcome challenges.

This seminar will help you to:   

• Teach kids to manage their emotions
• Develop your child’s ability to bounce back from disappointments   
• Show kids how to express strong feelings in a healthy way   
• Raise kids who can deal with stress   
• Encourage problem-solving and a positive attitude  

The Keeping your Child Safe from Bullying seminar helps you maintain good communication with your child, develop positive peer relationships, and address conflict and bullying.

This seminar will help you to: 

• Maintain good communication with their child  
• Help children develop positive relationships with their peers  
• Notice signs when children are having problems like bullying  
• Teach your child how to solve problems with peers  
• Address conflict and bullying    

Participation in this study should involve no physical or mental discomfort, and no risks beyond those of everyday living. If, however, you should find any question or procedure to be invasive or offensive, you are free to omit answering or participating in that aspect of the study. We also encourage you to discuss any concerns with the project.

All data collected in this study will be stored confidentially. All information collected about you will remain confidential. You will be assigned a unique participant ID, which will be used throughout the project duration. Identifiable information will be stored separately to the main data file, while your participant ID will be used to match both files. Only the de-identified data will be used in all analyses so that your identity cannot be ascertained. All electronic data will be stored in password-protected files stored on university password-protected servers. For this study, only the relevant research staffs will have access to the data. The data you provide will be used for research purposes of this study and may also be used for future studies in the similar research areas.

Only the non-identifiable information could be accessed by other researchers in the future.
It is anticipated that the results of this research project will be published and/or presented in a variety of forms. In any publication and/or presentation, information will be provided in such a way that you cannot be identified, except with your expressed permission.

Your participation in this research is voluntary and you are free to withdraw from the research anytime without needing to provide any explanation, and you would not receive any penalty or bias as a result of your withdrawal. Should you decide to withdraw your data, please let us know, all the information collected from/about you will be destroyed and will not be used in the research. Please note that once the data is analysed and/or included in publications it will not be possible for you to withdraw your data from the project. Data analysis is planned to start after the third assessment. As mentioned before, your data would always be unidentifiable after analysis. 

If you are interested, and upon request, the outcome of the study can be communicated to you as a brief report at the end of the project. Findings of the current study will be made publicly assessable in various outputs including, journal articles, conference papers, reports, scientific presentations, and thesis chapters.

This study adheres to the Guidelines of the ethical review process of The University of Queensland and the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research. If you would like to speak to an officer of the University not involved in the study, you may contact the Ethics Coordinator on +617 3365 3924 / +617 3443 1656 or email humanethics@research.uq.edu.au.

This research Ethics ID number: 2022/HE001114