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Mellow Parenting is a 14 week one day a week group designed to support families with relationship problems with their infants and young children.

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It combines personal support for parents with a video and direct work with parents and children on their own parenting problems, and has proved effective in recruiting and engaging families with a variety of severe problems.

Important Information

Mellow Parenting is developing an area of the site only for people who have completed Mellow Parenting Training.

Here you will have access to a range of downloadable materials, latest news, course presentations, live chat with a Mellow Parenting Trainer, and a Practitoner's Discussion Forum....read more.

If you think you are elligible please register.

Information booklet which is geared towards professionals interested in Mellow Parenting with some research data in it. Format : PDF (860K) - Download

Sent out to people who are interested, also available from the practitioners'area. Format : PDF (660K) - Download . Use this form to apply to Mellow Parenting. Format : PDF (85K) - Download

How do you access the programme?

Mellow Parenting does not directly run groups itself but trains professionals to run the group according to the model.

If you are a parent or carer looking for help and you think Mellow Parenting might be helpful to you, please ask your GP, Health Visitor or Social Worker who may be able to refer you to a group in your local area.

An Evaluated Programme

Mellow Parenting is an evaluated parenting programme which has been shown to be effective in engaging hard - to - reach families, and in helping them make changes in their relationships.

Follow up has shown lasting gains in maternal well being, parent-child interaction, child behaviour and child development.