Behavioural Family Intervention: Core parent consultation skills

Professor Sanders received his PhD in 1981 and has been at The University of Queensland since 1979. Between 1996-2023, he served as Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Parenting and Family Support Centre (PFSC). He was a Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course 2014-2023. Professor Sanders has extensive experience in adapting Evidence-based parenting programs to address different types of childhood adversity and vulnerability. His work includes interventions that address parenting in the context of child maltreatment prevention, peer victimisation and bullying, marital conflict, separation, and divorce, parenting in the context of severe mental illness, such as major depression and bipolar disorder, and substance abuse. His intervention model has been tested in the broader context of extreme poverty (both in Australia and in low- and middle- income countries), in prisons, with parents who are victims of domestic violence, in drug rehabilitation programs, and with foster carers. Professor Sanders also developed successful models for cultural adaptation of evidence-based psychological interventions for Indigenous and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) populations. The models trialled new delivery formats through online, media and TV and programs that cater to specific needs, for instance, parents of children with disability, first-time parents, and grandparents.