Parenting and families across the lifespan

Parenting is a lifelong journey, which begins before a child is born and continues when the child reaches adulthood and beyond. The tasks and needs of parents differ substantially across the course of development.

While some areas are relatively well understood, there are many gaps in our knowledge.

This stream of research aims to support parents across the lifespan, beginning with parenthood preparation through to grandparenting. It aims to understand parents’ needs, and develop and test interventions to address these needs.

Current projects:

• Prem baby Triple P: A randomised controlled trial of enhanced parenting capacity to improve developmental outcomes in preterm infants
• MotherCare: Exploring relationships between self-compassion, self-efficacy, psychological flexibility, and outcomes for mothers in the postnatal period
• A compassion-focused approach to parenting
• Intergenerational co-parenting project
• An evaluation of the effects of an online behavioural family intervention for parents of teenagers
• Assessing the multifaceted influence of parents on adolescent adjustment: Development and validation of a new parent-adolescent questionnaire battery
• Protective functions of parent-adolescent relationships in youth mental health outcomes
• Indonesian Parenting Survey