Triple P in Western Sydney Area Health Service: five years on

The Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) is a multilevel behavioural family intervention developed by Professor Matt Sanders of the University of Queensland. This paper provides an overview of the Triple P Parenting Service conducted by Western Sydney Area Health Service which commenced in 1998. The paper will describe the development and implementation of Triple P interventions within a universal community context. This includes discussion of preliminary outcome data based on 899 parents which indicates significant changes in measures like the Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory, the Parenting Scale and the Depression. Anxiety and Stress Scale. Examples of targeted uses of Triple P interventions in a variety of ways with specific groups of parents and communities will also be discussed.