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In this episode, Jenny Brown delves deeper into Differentiation-Based Parenting, exploring how this approach extends beyond the parent-child relationship to include the dynamic between parenting partners.
Grounded in Bowen family systems theory, Differentiation-Based Parenting shifts the focus from solely addressing children’s needs and vulnerabilities to encouraging parents to develop greater self-awareness while maintaining a calm and connected presence with their children. By prioritising self-management, parents create emotional space that supports both their own growth and their children’s, fostering mutual independence alongside a strong, loving bond.
This approach helps parents recognise their emotional triggers and reactions, allowing them to respond thoughtfully rather than being overly swayed by their children’s moods or behaviours. As a result, communication and problem-solving within the family improve, leading to a healthier, more balanced dynamic. Children benefit by developing emotional resilience, learning to navigate challenges independently, and growing into self-assured, capable individuals.
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In this episode, Jenny Brown introduces a title for the Parent Hope Project's parenting approach. Part one of this series asks the question: Is this just another parenting style with a whole lot of techniques?
Part two will explore what this approach looks like beyond the parent-child relationship, extending into the parenting partnership.
Differentiation-Based Parenting, rooted in Bowen family systems theory, emphasises the value of parents becoming more self-aware while maintaining a non-anxious connection with their children. Unlike most parenting approaches, which focus primarily on children’s needs and vulnerabilities, this approach encourages parents to cultivate emotional space by focusing on managing themselves.
This allows both the parents and their children to develop independently while simultaneously fostering a loving relationship. By recognising their own emotional triggers and responses, parents can avoid being overly influenced by their children’s moods and behaviours, promoting clearer communication and problem-solving. This parenting stance supports a healthier family dynamic, enabling children to grow as unique individuals who can learn to manage their emotions and challenges, ultimately leading to more resilient and independent young people.
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In this episode of the podcast, Dr Jenny Brown sits down with Clinical Psychologists Ahmed Tohamy and Samantha Pilcher to explore the challenges of school avoidance and how families can support children in re-engaging with education. Ahmed, who recently spoke at the sold-out School-Link Forum Day Event in Illawarra and Shoalhaven, NSW, shares his experience piloting the Parent Hope Project, a family-based intervention aimed at addressing school refusal. Samantha brings valuable insights from her extensive work with families, providing a rich discussion on the emotional and practical challenges parents face in helping their children re-engage with school life.
Join Jenny, Samantha, and Ahmed as they discuss the Bowen Family Systems approach, focusing on how parents can build their children’s capacities to overcome school avoidance, while diving into clinical approaches, family dynamics, and practical solutions for one of the toughest challenges in child and adolescent mental health.
About the Guest: Ahmed TohamyAhmed is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience working with complex children, adolescents, young adults and their families in public mental health, child protection and school settings. He also has experience in the private sector across a variety of issues. He has a special interest in Schema Therapy and Bowen Family Systems Theory.
https://www.sppsych.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-tohamy-57a4a270.
About the Guest: Samatha Pilcher
Samatha is a clinical psychologist who works in private practice and public child and family mental health.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-pilcher-992416177/
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In this Episode Jenny is back in the hosting seat with guest Dan Papero.
Dr Jenny Brown draws on Dan’s rich experience as a Bowen family systems scholar, teacher and clinician. They explore how our families are both the seedbed for symptoms and a garden of recovery. They explore how parents can contribute to their family becoming a garden for the sustainable growth and flourishing of its members - including its children.
This conversation builds on Dr Papero’s keynote addresses at the 21st Family Systems Institute Conference. https://www.thefsi.com.au/
About the Guest:
Dan Papero is a senior faculty member from the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, DC. Learn more about Dan's and his work here:
https://www.thebowencenter.org/
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In this episode, the tables are turned again as Vicki Wilkins, the Parent Hope Project Professional Programs Coordinator, interviews Dr. Jenny Brown. They discuss the topic of limit setting and responding to children's misbehaviour.
Does the family systems approach recognise that parenting involves responding to children’s misbehaviours? This question seems to come up so much at parent events and in our parents' hope for professional training – It speaks to parent uncertainty about what their leadership involves with so much conflicting advice out there.
Guest Host-Vicki WilkinsVicki Wilkins is a mother of three primary age children, a Mental Health Clinician & one of the valued members of the Team at the Parent Hope Project.
Interviewee & Regular Host of the Parent Hope Podcast- Dr Jenny Brown
Dr Jenny Brown has worked in child, couple, and family health since the 1980s, focusing on child and adolescent mental health and the crucial role of parental involvement in treatment. Throughout her career, Jenny has observed and researched how easily parents can lose confidence in their strengths and wisdom, often stepping aside to let experts address concerns about their children. Her extensive clinical and research work based on Bowen family systems led to a profound realisation: children do best when their parents and carers have self-awareness and clarity in their roles rather than just trying to fix their child.
Driven by this insight, Jenny developed the Parent Hope Project. The project reflects her commitment to empowering parents, enabling them to effectively nurture their children’s mental health. This approach is grounded in her depth of understanding of family therapy, particularly Dr Murray Bowen’s family systems theory.
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In this episode the tables are turned! Last week's guest, Michelle Varcoe, interviews Dr Jenny Brown to discuss:
The importance of co-regulation in parenting.What is co-regulation?Are there potential pitfalls of focusing too much on co-regulation?Consider the role of self-regulation in parenting.Differentiation in Parenting: meaningful connection without invasion.To hear more about Michelle go to Season 2 Episode 4 or see links below.
About Dr Jenny Brown:
Dr Jenny Brown has over 35 years of clinical experience in child, couple, and family health. Her primary clinical and research interest has been in Child and adolescent mental health and parent’s involvement in treatment. This has been reflected in her publications, conference and workshop presentations and her PhD research on parents’ experience of their child’s mental health treatment. The Parent Hope project has been developed from this critical research.Jenny’s most recent book is Facilitating Parents’ Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Helplessness to Hope – published by Cambridge Scholars.
https://parenthopeproject.com.au/about-jenny-brown/
About Michelle Varcoe:
Michelle is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker who has worked across various Child and Adolescent Mental Health teams within NSW Health, and has extensive experience in supporting families who have a child/adolescent presenting with moderate-severe mental health issueshttps://thefsp.com.au/parent-programs/
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In this Episode Jenny and Guest Michelle Varcoe discuss tantrums, sleep issues and exhaustion - staying steady (enough) during the early parenting years.
Michelle brings her insight into what she sees as the main challenges in trying to stay steady in these very intense, exhausting parenting years.
Michelle Varcoe is a mother who is just coming up for air from the early parenting years. She is a seasoned mental health clinician, one of the specialist Parent counsellors at the Parent Hope Clinic in Sydney https://thefsp.com.au/parent-programs/.
She is particularly aware of the unique role that parents/carers play in the support of a young person, but also the unique anxieties and concerns that are inherent in the demanding role of parenting. She has seen how these anxieties increase alongside the concern for a young person who is deeply struggling with their mental health. As such, she is committed to working with parents in a non-judgemental, empathic approach that supports parents’ self-efficacy and resourcefulness as they continue the enriching challenges of parenthood. Michelle is committed to the learning process, maintaining curiosity and continuous thinking, and is currently studying the Advanced Certificate of Couple and Family Systems Therapy through the Family Systems Institute (due to complete in 2024). She has also presented her thinking around application of theory to practice at conferences alongside her colleagues.
Guest Bio:
Michelle is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker who has worked across various Child and Adolescent Mental Health teams within NSW Health, and has extensive experience in supporting families who have a child/adolescent presenting with moderate-severe mental health issues.
https://thefsp.com.au/parent-programs/
https://thefsp.com.au/michelle-varcoe/
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In today's episode, Jenny will discuss Marriage and Parenting with a seasoned family therapist, author, Father and Husband, Arum Nadigel. With a special emphasis on Dads, they will explore what it takes to keep a marriage intact through the stresses and strains of the parenting years?
What are the main stressors that parenting puts on a marriage? Are there particular stressors in today's stress-laden climate (dual income stress – living away from extended family support) years? How do parents and spouses figure out how to do marriage and relationships? Do we need maps and role models?
They discuss big questions Like:Finishing with some hopeful examples of marriages getting back on track and even thriving during the parenting years.
Speaker Bio:
Avrum Nadigel, B.Comm, MSW is a family and relationship therapist with over twenty years of clinical experience.
He is the author of three books, the most recent was co-authored with the late Dr. David Freeman entitled: “Where Would You Like To Start: A master therapist on beginning psychotherapy with families.”
Avrum co-produced three podcasts combining Family Systems theory and pop culture. He is also an urban sketcher and guitarist and songwriter.Website: https://nadigel.com/
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In this episode we will discuss an important finding from Bowen family systems theory: parents can detour our troubles onto our children. This is described as parents projecting the worry onto the offspring.
Dr Carrie Collier will help us to think about this issue and address our build up of worry about children.
How to make sense of the way issues in broader family relationships can increase a worry focus on children.How issues with our siblings, cut-offs with parents, or the death of a parent/grandparent can play out in our parenting.How a narrow focus on parenting techniques misses these important family issues.Hear more from Dr Carrie Collier:
Finding a Self in Parenting: When a parent is concerned about a child, it’s easy for anxiety to take over. An anxious focus on a child can make it difficult for a parent to access their best thinking, or to observe the larger family system and their role in it. In this edition of Family Matters, Dr. Carrie Collier shares her thoughts about how a parent can begin to take responsibility for their emotional reactivity in response to a parenting challenge. She discusses what it takes to shift one’s focus from solving a child’s dilemma to managing oneself in the midst of chaos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpOaOFnHOqEhttps://www.thebowencenter.org/faculty-bios/carrie-collierhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpOaOFnHOqEhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anzf.1491Newsletter-https://parenthopeproject.com.au/#newsletter
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In this Episode of the Parent Hope Podcast Jenny Brown explores “How parents can partner with schools to increase student and family confidence” with Robin Shultz.
What makes for a positive partnership between parents and schools?
What can get in the way of this?
How can parents best deal with worries about how their child is doing at school?
Robin Shultz Bio
Robyn is a retired school social worker with 20 years of experience working in schools in the Chicago area. Now a private practice owner of New Legends Counselling, Coaching and Consulting, LLC Geneva, Illinois, United States.
Marriage and Family Therapy (LMFT), Clinical Social Work, (DSW, LCSW), Licensed School Social Worker (Type 73), Certified Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor (CADC), Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) with specializations in Outdoor Experiential Education and Behavioral Health.
Links:Shultz, R. (2020). The current state of children’s mental health in schools: The need for expanded thinking: Family Systems: A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences, 15, (1), 49-55.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370553454_THE_CURRENT_STATE_OF_CHILDREN'S_MENTAL_HEALTH_IN_SCHOOLS_THE_NEED_FOR_EXPANDED_THINKING
Shultz, R. (2022). Using Bowen family systems theory concepts to explore how adult interaction patterns may influence student functioning. Family Systems: A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences, 16, (2), 133-156.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370553459_USING_BOWEN_FAMILY_SYSTEMS_THEORY_CONCEPTS_TO
Robin Shultz, DSW, LCSW, LMFT, CADC, CTRS
Robin's research papers:
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The Summer Theme - Parents promoting responsible, age-appropriate independence & avoiding futile power struggles.
These themes are relevant, whatever the age of your child.Adolescents present unique challenges for parents. For example, the reactive push for independence can be triggering for parents. In this podcast, Jenny reveals how parent efforts to correct behaviours can inadvertently reinforce a conflict cycle that can fuel a teen's physiological reward system: (sensation seeking). An overview of adolescent brain development makes sense of this reward system.
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Links
1. Sensation seeking: Steinberg L. A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking. Dev Rev. 2008 Mar;28(1):78-106. doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2007.08.002. PMID: 18509515; PMCID: PMC2396566.
2. Flexibility in parenting interactions: Branje, S. (2018), Development of Parent–Adolescent Relationships: Conflict Interactions as a Mechanism of Change. Child Dev Perspect, 12: 171-176. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12278
3. Understanding teenage brain development:
https://raisingchildren.net.au/pre-teens/development/understanding-your-pre-teen/brain-development-teens
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The Summer Theme - Parents promoting responsible, age-appropriate independence & avoiding futile power struggles.
These themes are relevant, whatever the age of your child. Enjoy this rebroadcast of “Toddler in meltdown- The first push for independence”
With toddlers the challenge is managing our responses to their huge learning spurt and push towards independence. This podcast describes 2 different parent toddler interactions involving a toddler not getting what they want. What is in a parent’s control to contribute to a toddler’s increased capacity to delay gratification?
Research links mentioned in podcastLuo, Y., Pattanakul, D. Infant expectations of instant or delayed gratification. Sci Rep 10, 19081 (2020).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76136-9
The Stanford marshmallow experiment- a study on delayed gratification in 1972 led by psychologist Walter Mischel
https://www.simplypsychology.org/marshmallow-test.html
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In this episode, we will discuss parenting courses with a family skills community educator. We'll explore what parents get out of carving out time for parenting courses – and are all parenting courses the same?
How can parents get a confidence boost from accessing a parenting course? Steve will share about differences in parent courses. He will provide examples of what parents have found most helpful and most challenging. And some tips for facilitating a parenting course in a way that helps parents develop their own insights relevant to their unique family.Stephen Dinning Family and Life Skills Educator at Anglicare
Steve has a background in social work and parish ministry. As part of Anglicare’s Family & Life Skills Education Team he runs courses and seminars in parenting, family life and relating with others. He’s also on Anglicare’s Southern Counselling Team.
We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions.
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Join Jenny as she asks Marie Vakakis what she has learned from her young clients about their relationships with their parents.
Parents connecting with their adolescents will explore questions like: How can parents best connect with a seemingly shut-off teen and How not to be intimidated or overwhelmed by the dramatic tech revolution – do parents really need to be up on the latest technology to connect with their teens?
About Marie VakakisThe Therapy Hub: https://thetherapyhub.com.au/about-us/
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (majoring in psychology), Monash University
Masters of Social Work (additional research year/ thesis) The University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma of Youth and Adolescent Mental Health , The University of Melbourne
Masters of Family Therapy, LaTrobe University
Member of the Australian Association of social workers
Accredited Mental Health Social Worker
Accredited ‘Tuning Into Teens’ Parenting Program Facilitator
Completed level 1 Gottman Method Couples training
Accredited Youth Mental Health First Aid Instructor
Accredited Standard Mental Health First Aid Instructor
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In this Episode of the Parent Hope Podcast Jenny Brown explores Grandparenting with Selden Dunbar Illick.
They discuss what makes for flourishing “grandparenting relationships”, with adult children, in-laws, grandchildren and the grandparenting partner if relevant).
With a Family Systems Lens in view they discuss the common pitfalls in these relationships, for example triangles. They will also discuss the value of working on self.
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In this episode Jenny talks with Dr Linda Mackay on parenting with a backdrop of trauma and adversity and how this affects building confidence in parenting.
Linda MacKay is an accredited psychotherapist & counsellor, who practices in Mudgee, Blaxland and offers online sessions. She is also a lecturer, trainer, and supervisor, with degrees and qualifications in counselling, couple and family therapy and her PhD in critical psychology (UWS).
Linda lectures at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Notre Dame, counsels private individuals, and coaches business executives who wish to optimize their performance as leaders. She is also a clinical member of PACFA & Accredited Supervisor for AAFT.
She has extensive experience working with individuals, couples and families, and has specialised in working with people who have suffered grief and loss, and complex trauma issues including child sexual abuse, domestic violence, dissociation and self-harm.
She incorporates the Parent Hope Project in her work.
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This podcast explores a common tension between parents about how each responds to a struggling child. One parent reacts with more nurturing and the other with more firmness. Each feels critical about the other’s management of one of their children.
Amber McPherson, Programs Coordinator at the Parent Hope Project interviews Dr Jenny Brown about parent-style tensions. Jenny has a recently published article on this topic: Making Sense of the Parenting 'Soft/Hard Split'
Jenny also interviews a mother and father about their experiences of these tensions and how they have changed the way they respond to each other.
Jenny’s article with a video
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anzf.1533
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In this episode Jenny discusses with Dr Kathleen Smith the challenges and opportunities for parents managing fears and anxieties.
What are the challenges of managing anxiety about our kids? What are the opportunities and benefits of parents working on managing their fears?
Kathleen Smith is a licensed therapist and mental health writer who lives in Washington, DC. She has written for popular publications such as Slate, Salon, New York Magazine, Lifehacker, Bustle, and Counseling Today, among many others. She is an associate faculty member at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family and hosts the show Family Matters, a production of the University of the District of Columbia.
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Isnt-Terrible-Insecurities-Interrupt/dp/0316492531https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B01HYP9SJ2/about
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In this episode, Jenny Brown will be in discussion with Lauren Errington sharing stories of working with parents who are worried about 1 or more of their children.
Lauren is the Executive Director of the Family Systems Institute Sydney. She also lectures at Charles Sturt University and has a clinical practice at the Family Systems Practice Network.
The stories shared will reveal what parents gain from observing their interactions – Lauren and Jenny will reflect on learning to observe themselves in their own families.
Links:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anzf.1481
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In this episode, Jenny Brown interviews renowned Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr Annemaree Bickerton about her work supporting parents managing their child or adolescent's strong, and often dangerous, emotions and behaviours.
Listen to how parents can be a lighthouse for children in stormy times. They listen rather than fix and allow the child to learn to surf the challenging waves of life.To find out about the Staying Connected Courses: https://www.islhd.health.nsw.gov.au/services-clinics/family-and-carer-mental-health-program-0/staying-connected-when-emotions-run-high
To watch the video mentioned – This is an excellent resource!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_B61YifyrM
To read about the safety first model
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anzf.1055
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Website-https://parenthopeproject.com.au/
Contact us:
(02) 9904 5600
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