Level 5 Triple P Family Transitions (TPFT) is for parents with a child aged between 2 and 14 years old experiencing difficulties as a result of parental separation or divorce. TPFT is delivered by a single practitioner to groups of up to eight families through five sessions lasting two hours each. TPFT sessions are intended to be delivered in addition to the Level 4 Group Triple P intervention, resulting in a total of 12 sessions. During the TPFT sessions, parents learn strategies for managing interparental conflict and their overall stress.
The information above is as offered/supported by the intervention provider.
2 to 14 years old
Group
Level 5 Triple P Family Transitions (TPFT) is for parents with a child aged between 2 and 14 years experiencing difficulties as a result of parental separation or divorce.
TPFT is delivered by a single practitioner to groups of up to eight families through five sessions lasting two hours each. TPFT sessions are intended to be delivered in addition to the Level 4 Group Triple P intervention, resulting in a total of 12 sessions.
TPFT’s content aims to improve parents’ ability to manage the separation transition and reduce their child’s emotional distress. During the sessions, parents are supported to:
2 to 14 years old
Parents with a child aged between 2 and 14 years, whose relationship ended less than four years previously, and who are concerned about co-parental conflict, parenting, or child behaviour following the relationship breakdown.
Disclaimer: The information in this section is as offered/supported by the intervention provider.
Science-based assumption
Parental separation, divorce, and the immediate aftermath can be a stressful transition in the family lifecycle
Parental separation is known to increase the risk of child emotional and behavioural problems during childhood and adolescence.
Science-based assumption
Avoiding conflict and working effectively as co-parents can reduce the stress children experience during parental divorce and separation.
Science-based assumption
Separating parents can benefit from advice on improving the co-parenting relationship.
Intervention
Parents learn how to:
Work effectively as co-parents while living apart
Reduce inter-parental conflict
Support their children’s needs
Implement age-appropriate discipline
Manage their own stress and wellbeing.
Short-term
Parents are better able to work effectively as co-parents
Families are better able to manage conflict
Parents experience improved wellbeing
Parent–child interaction improves.
Medium-term
Families are better able to manage post-separation
Children’s emotional wellbeing is supported
Children’s behaviour improves.
Long-term
Children are at less risk of emotional and behavioural problems as they develop.
Parents with a child aged between 2 and 14 years old, whose relationship ended less than four years previously, and who are concerned about co-parental conflict, parenting, or child behaviour following the relationship breakdown.
Triple P Family Transitions is delivered in five sessions of two hours’ duration each by one practitioner, to groups of approximately eight families.
These five sessions are delivered in conjunction with a Level 4 Triple P intervention.
Family Transitions Triple P focuses on skills to resolve conflicts with former partners and how to cope positively with stress. Learning is supported through role-play exercises, homework exercises and group discussions involving video-taped examples of effective parenting strategies.
The practitioner who delivers this programme is a Triple P practitioner, who can come from a range of professions (e.g. family support worker).
Practitioners have 37.5 hours of programme training. Practitioners attend two days of training and complete a half-day accreditation session. It is recommended they set aside four to six hours for quiz and competency preparation before accreditation. Booster training of practitioners is not required.
It is recommended that practitioners are supervised by one host-agency supervisor, with 0 hours of intervention training.
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.
TPFT’s most rigorous evidence comes from a single RCT conducted in Australia consistent with Foundations’ Level 3 evidence strength threshold.
This study observed statistically significant improvements in TPFT’s parents’ reports of the frequency and intensity of child behavioural problems compared to parents not receiving the intervention.
TPFT 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.
Reduced amount of problem behaviour
immediately after the intervention
Improvement index
Interpretation
Study
Reduced intensity of problem behaviour
immediately after the intervention
Improvement index
Interpretation
Study
| Identified in search | 1 |
| Studies reviewed | 1 |
| Meeting the L2 threshold | 0 |
| Meeting the L3 threshold | 1 |
| Contributing to the L4 threshold | 0 |
| Ineligible | 0 |
| Study design | RCT |
| Country | Australia |
| Sample characteristics | 205 separated parents with a child aged between 2 and 14 years old. |
| Race, ethnicities, and nationalities | Not reported |
| Population risk factors |
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| Timing | Baseline and post-intervention (12 weeks post-baseline). The intervention group also completed a 12-month follow-up measurement, though this was not given to the control group. |
| Child outcomes |
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| Other outcomes |
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| Study rating | 3 |
| Citations | Stallman, H. M. & Sanders, M. R. (2014) A randomized controlled trial of Family Transitions Triple P: A group-administered parenting program to minimize the adverse effects of parental divorce on children. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage. 55 (1), 33–48. |
No other studies were identified for TPFT.
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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