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88% (n = 44) described positive changes in the way they do thingschildren.with their88% (n = 44) reported increased responsiveness and ability to read cues.80% (n = 40) reported increased confidence in responding to their children’sattachment needs.Furthermore , 92% of mothers reported the project had helped them feel closer to their childand 88% noted lasting p ositive changes in themselves since completion of the project. Thepre- and post- application of a number of standardised psychometric instruments revealedstatistically significant improvements in parental stress, anxiety, depression, childresponsiveness to parent, child wellbeing and involvement, parent sensitivity and parentstructuring.3.4TRIPLE-P (POSITIVE PARENTING PROGRAM)Program services and target groupsTriple-P is a behavioural family intervention that is designed to improve family protectivefactors as well as reduce factors that are associated with severe behavioural and emotionalproblems in preadolescent children. The program was developed at the University ofQueensland as a multi-level intervention designed to improve the quality of advice availableto parents.Triple-P has been operational for 25 years and is a comprehensive public health modelintervention with the specific aims (Sanders, 2003) of: enhancing the knowledge, skills, confidence, self sufficiency and resourcefulness ofparents of preadolescent children; promoting nurturing, safe, engaging, non-violent and low conflict environments forchildren; and promoting children’s social, emotional, language, intellectual and behaviouralcompetencies through positive parenting practices.This program has five levels of intervention (Figure 3-2) on a tiered continuum of increasingstrength for parents and children from birth until the age of 16 years. These levels ofintervention include a ‘media-based parent information campaign’, ‘health promotion,strategy/brief selective intervention’, ‘narrow focus parent training’, ‘broad focus parenttraining’ as well as ‘intensive family intervention modules’.70