Who’s in Charge? is a 9 week child to parent violence (CPV) programme aimed at parents whose children are being abusive or violent toward them or who appear out of parental control.  The structure of the programme consists of 8 two and a half hour sessions with a two-month follow up.

Address: Four Acre Lane, Clock Face, WA9 4DE

Family Intervention Worker FaST Team

Words others use to describe me…..

·     Happy

·     Friendly

·     A good listener

·     Helpful

·     Supportive

"I have gained more confidence and feel more in control"

"I am happier now and most importantly my children are"

• Reduce parent’s feelings of isolation.

• Challenge parent’s feelings of guilt.

• Lessen deterministic thinking about causes (e.g. “he can’t help it.. he has ADHD” or “… he saw his father be violent”) – it is always multi-causal.

• Reinforce belief in possibility of change (without giving false hope or creating complacency).

• Clarify boundaries of what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour (harder than it sounds as there are many grey areas and we need to avoid imposing our own values).

• Arm parents with some simple concepts that have proved empowering: e.g. entitlement, the power of being irresponsible, etc.

• Examine strategies for creating meaningful and practical consequences for unacceptable behaviour. The approach of most parenting courses and materials is to assume that children are basically co-operative and only need encouragement and positivity to be good. These approaches usually have failed miserably with the oppositional children of the WIC? parents. Finding consequences for children who care about little and don’t want to co-operate is very difficult.

• Explore anger, both children’s and (often more usefully) parents’.

• Encourage assertiveness.

• Encourage self-care.

• Reinforce progress and provide emotional support while parents are attempting to become more assertive parents.

• Session 1  Introductions, questionnaires and genograms

• Session 2  Cause and influences of abusive behaviour

• Session 3  What is abuse?

• Session 4  What can I control in my child’s life?

• Session 5  Consequences

• Session 6  Anger and breaking the myths of anger

• Session 7  Assertiveness

• Session 8  Self-care, future goal setting and evaluation

• Session 9  Two month follow up on goal achievement, evaluation and further goals.

Senior Family Intervention Worker FaST Team

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Week 2 21st October 2025

Week 3 28th October 2025

Week 4 4th November 2025

Week 5 11th November 2025

Week 6 18th November 2025

Week 7 25th November 2025

Week 8 2nd December 2025

Follow up chat W/C 2nd February 2026