Resilience Triple P is for parents with a child between the ages of 6 and 12 who is experiencing bullying at school. It is delivered by a Triple P practitioner to groups of two to six families over a period of eight weeks. During these sessions, the parent and child learn strategies for resolving conflict and responding to negative peer behaviour.
The information above is as offered/supported by the intervention provider.
6 to 12 years old
Group, Individual
Child outcomes:
UK available
UK tested
Resilience Triple P is part of the Triple P multi-level system of family support and is specifically for families with a child between the ages of 6 and 12 who has been victimised or bullied at school.
Accredited Triple P practitioners work with families individually or in groups of up to six parents, for an eight-week period with one session per week. Four of the sessions are for the child, with a focus on how to prevent and handle difficult behaviour of peers. During these sessions, the child learns play and friendship skills, everyday body language, how to interpret and respond to negative peer behaviour, and how to resolve conflicts.
The other four sessions provide parents with strategies for supporting their child’s needs and requesting assistance where required from schools. During these sessions, parents learn facilitative parenting strategies to promote a warm parent–child relationship, support children’s friendships, address problem behaviour, coach effective responses to bullying and conflict, and communicate with school staff. Behavioural and cognitive strategies are described, modelled, practised, and coached.
6 to 12 years
Children who have been bullied or victimised at school.
Disclaimer: The information in this section is as offered/supported by the intervention provider.
Science-based assumption
Experiences of bullying in childhood significantly increase the risk of mental health problems in adulthood.
Science-based assumption
Positive relationships with peers and parents reduce the likelihood of being bullied and increase children’s emotional resilience to bullying behaviours.
Science-based assumption
Children with experience of bullying.
Intervention
Resilience Triple P teaches social and emotional regulation skills to children and encourages parents to provide warm support, coach, and provide opportunities for children to develop positive peer relationships.
Short-term
Increased supportive parenting
Improved parent–child relationship
Improved child wellbeing.
Medium-term
Reduced peer victimisation
Greater acceptance by peers
Improved emotional wellbeing.
Long-term
Improved peer relationships at school
Reduced risk of adult mental health problems.
Children aged 6 to 12 with experience of bullying.
Resilience Triple P is delivered in eight sessions of 2.5 hours’ duration each by one practitioner, to groups of two to six families. Four sessions are delivered to parents, and four sessions are delivered to children.
The intervention can also be delivered in eight sessions of 1.5 hours’ duration each by one practitioner, to individuals. Four sessions are delivered to parents, and four sessions are delivered to children.
During each session, brief didactic presentations are alternated with discussion, DVD and live demonstrations of skills, rehearsal of skills using role plays, games, and peer modelling, and small-group problem-solving exercises. Parents and children receive a workbook, which describes the information and strategies presented during the sessions and includes homework tasks.
The parent and child sessions cover the following themes:
Parent session 1: Understanding bullying covers working together, describes bullying and why children are bullied, and setting goals for change and keeping track.
Child session 1: Playing well together and building friendships covers working together, setting goals, joining in, practising play skills, encouraging other children to be friendly, responding to unfairness, and planning for play and friendships.
Parent session 2: Helping children develop, in which parents learn about positive parenting, building and maintaining good relationships, encouraging appropriate behaviour, teaching new skills and behaviours, and helping children develop skills and confidence.
Child session 2: What to do when other kids act mean takes the group through what bullying is, why kids act mean, responding calmly, ‘bouncing off’ bullying, using words to stand up for yourself, and starting to plan to ‘bounce off’ bullying.
Parent session 3: Managing misbehaviour, in which parents learn to identify and manage misbehaviour, and learn the early conflict intervention routing, and how to develop other parenting routines.
Child session 3: What else to do when other kids act mean covers additional ways to ‘bounce off’ bullying, getting help from an adult, ‘bouncing off’ cyberbullying, how to help others without becoming a target, and making a plan to ‘bounce off’ bullying.
Parent session 4: Communicating with school staff and other adults, in which parents learn about considering seeking help from school staff, preparing to speak with school staff, and meeting with the teacher.
Child session 4: Sorting out conflicts covers calmly responding to conflict, solutions to conflict, steps of working it out, win–win solutions, good listening, practising working it out, reviewing progress, continuing to improve, and preparing for the future.
The practitioner who delivers this intervention is a Child and Family Mental Health Practitioner, or other school support professional.
Intervention fidelity is maintained through the following processes:
A quality assurance checklist is available for organisations to use when planning for quality assurance of Triple P. There are three standard fidelity protocols built into the Triple P Implementation Framework: (1) Practitioner Accreditation, (2) Intervention Fidelity using Session Checklists, (3) Supervision and Practitioner Support Standards using the Peer Support Network. TPUK offers trainer-facilitated PASS sessions or a Flexibility and Fidelity workshop for professional development.
Organisation: Triple P UK
Email address: contact@triplep.uk.net
Website/s: www.triplep-parenting.net
www.triplep.net
https://pfsc-evidence.psy.uq.edu.au/
*Please note that this information may not be up to date. In this case, please visit the listed intervention website for up to date contact details.
Resilience Triple P’s most rigorous evidence comes from an RCT conducted in Australia, meeting Foundations’ L3 strength of evidence rating.
This study identified statistically significant reductions in child- and parent-reported amount of bullying, child depression, and child overt aggression.
Resilience Triple P can be described as evidence-based: it has evidence from at least one rigorously conducted RCT or QED demonstrating a statistically significant positive impact on at least one child outcome, as well as at least one more RCT or QED.
Reduced negative thoughts & feelings
Immediately after the intervention
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Reduced negative thoughts & feelings
6 months later
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Reduced depressive symptoms
6 months later
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Reduced distress
Immediately after the intervention
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Reduced distress
6 months later
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Reduced distress
Immediately after the intervention
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Reduced distress
6 months later
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Reduced bullying
Immediately after the intervention
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Reduced bullying
6 months later)
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Reduced bullying
Immediately after the intervention
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Reduced bullying
6 months later
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Study
Reduced overt aggression
Immediately after the intervention
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Study
Reduced overt aggression
Immediately after the intervention
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Reduced overt victimisation
6 months later
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Improved parent supportiveness of children’s peer skills and relationships, Parent report
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Study
| Identified in search | 2 |
| Studies reviewed | 2 |
| Meeting the L2 threshold | |
| Meeting the L3 threshold | 1 |
| Contributing to the L4 threshold | 0 |
| Ineligible | 1 |
| Study design | RCT |
| Country | Australia |
| Sample characteristics | 111 families with children between 6 and 12 years old (mean = 8.72) who were being bullied at school. |
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| Study rating | 3 |
| Citations | Study 1a: Healy, K. L. & Sanders, M. R. (2014) Randomized controlled trial of a family intervention for children bullied by peers. Behavior Therapy. 45 (6), 760–777. Study 1b: Healy, K. L. & Sanders M. R. (2013) Detailed report of results for families and schools. The University of Queensland. |
The following studies were identified for this intervention but did not count towards the intervention’s overall evidence rating. An intervention receives the same rating as its most robust study or studies.
Healy, K. L. & Sanders, M. R. (2018) Mechanisms through which supportive relationships with parents and peers mitigate victimization, depression and internalizing problems in children bullied by peers. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 49, 800–813.
Note on provider involvement: This provider has agreed to Foundations’ terms of reference (or the Early Intervention Foundation's terms of reference), and the assessment has been conducted and published with the full cooperation of the intervention provider.
Rated 1: Set up and delivery is low cost, equivalent to an estimated unit cost of less than £100.
Rated 2: Set up and delivery is medium-low cost, equivalent to an estimated unit cost of £100–£499.
Rated 3: Set up and delivery is medium cost, equivalent to an estimated unit cost of £500–£999.
Rated 4: Set up and delivery is medium-high cost, equivalent to an estimated unit cost of £1,000–£2,000.
Rating 5: Set up and delivery is high cost. Equivalent to an estimated unit cost of more than £2,000.
Set up and delivery cost is not applicable, not available, or has not been calculated.
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Rated 2: Has preliminary evidence of improving a child outcome from a quantitative impact study, but there is not yet evidence of causal impact.
Rated 2+: Meets the level 2 rating and the best available evidence is based on a study which is more rigorous than a level 2 standard but does not meet the level 3 standard.
Rated 3: Has evidence of a short-term positive impact from at least one rigorous study.
Rated 3+: Meets the level 3 rating and has evidence from other studies with a comparison group at level 2 or higher.
Rated 4: Has evidence of a long-term positive impact through at least two rigorous studies.
Rated 4+: Meets the level 4 rating and has at least a third study contributing to the Level 4 rating, with at least one of the studies conducted independently of the intervention provider.
Rating has a *: The evidence base includes mixed findings i.e., studies suggesting positive impact alongside studies, which on balance, indicate no effect or negative impact.
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