ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the history of the development of the Enhancing Parenting Skills (EPaS) programme and summarises the key components of effective interventions with families on which EPaS was built. The EPaS programme was developed to support health visitors and other people that work with the parents of young children who present with behavioural challenges due to developmental and other problems. It recognises the importance of both early intervention and the need to focus on parents as the change agents because they have the most contact with, and impact on, their children. Health visitors delivered weekly home-based, one-to-one family interventions and achieved excellent outcomes. Every family is unique and, whilst there are shared challenges among families that have children with developmental and other difficulties, there are many differences between them, their children and the problems that they bring to the intervention situation.
