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What is Special or Different about the Take 3 Programme?

There are several evidence-based programmes currently being used in the UK for supporting parents of teenagers and sometimes it’s hard to choose the right programme for your client group. These are some of the reasons why you might like to opt for Take 3:

It has been developed in the UK. Unlike those programmes that were created in other countries, this programme was birthed, developed and evaluated in the UK, specifically meeting the needs of UK parents, regardless of their ethnic background.

See ‘Supporting Parents of Teenagers’, especially pages 3 & 5>>

Breathing. However many skills and strategies parents learn, they aren’t able to use them or think clearly if they’re too stressed or angry. Borrowing from well-researched Mindfulness techniques, one of which is to focus on breathing, the programme introduces the ‘Take 3’ breathing method, designed to calm parents by stimulating the body’s natural relaxation response, the parasympathetic nervous system.

More information about breathing>>

Family Systems theory shows us that when one part of a system changes, other parts change too, so Take 3 focuses on changing the adults’ behaviour, boosting their self-confidence and assertiveness skills. We can’t change other people’s behaviour, we can only change our own. Young people change when their parents/carers change and Take 3 demonstrates that this works really effectively.

Our comprehensive pack materials contain a huge amount of valuable information, including visual handouts especially for parents with poor literacy, as well as the video clips from Teenagers in Trouble: Skills for Parents.

Whilst covering the usual parenting skills and strategies (communication, boundaries etc), Take 3 also explores in some depth the reasons why young people feel and behave as they do and looks at individual relationships between parents and adolescents. The Notes for Facilitators include in-depth background theory which is easy to read and hugely informative.

The Programme incorporates current information about teenage brain research – vital knowledge for parents about how teenagers develop and why they might be behaving in the way that they do.

See a TED talk by Sarah Jayne Blakemore about the Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain>>

Take 3 works to rekindle love and respect in families where these key ingredients of healthy relationships have been lost.

Alongside the core 10-week parenting programme, Take 3 offers 11 additional sessions in a number of areas, including anti-social behaviour, sibling rivalry, step families, teens and screens and managing anger. No other programme for parents of teenagers brings together so much useful material in one place.