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Dr. Jenny Brown is passionate about helping parents to bring their best to this vital role in life. Hence, she has developed "The Parent Project" a resources web site, to assist parents to regain their compass as loving leaders for their children. Jenny has been working in the field of child and family mental health and family therapy since the 1980s; and has trained professionals in the field for over 3 decades. Her Ph.D. research was exploring parents' experience of their child's mental health treatment. A key finding was that: "When parents shifted from being invested in external 'expert' treatment to having a sense of their capacities to make a difference for their child, they finished the [treatment] program with increased hope." Jenny is a writer and speaker on family and parenting matters. Amongst several publications, she is the author of the best-selling book: 'Growing Yourself Up: How to bring your best to all of life's relationships.' Jenny founded the Family Systems Institute, Sydney Australia in 2004. She is a clinical member and supervisor for the Australian Association of Family Therapy. In 2018 she received the ANJFT award for distinguished contribution to family therapy in Australia. Her academic training has been at the University of Sydney, Columbia University New York, and the University of New South Wales. Additionally, Jenny has completed in-depth training in family therapy & family systems at Relationships Australia, The Family Institute of Westchester New York, & the Tavistock and Portman Trust, London. Jenny's most important credential is as a parent of adult children and a proud grandparent.

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The Parent Hope manualized program is a research-based clinical intervention for parents and carers of a struggling child. It is a six-session manual with an introduction and review session. It is designed to be used with a trained clinician/coach. It provides a map for parents to discover ways they can change their part in dynamics to support their young person's development of self-regulation, balanced relationship connection, and independence. It engages parents to address their own self-regulation, to support their struggling children. Author: Dr Jenny Brown has decades 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 Manual and resources have been developed from her experience, research, and Bowen family systems theory.