Parental Stress Centre

Understanding Behaviour. Supporting Families. Changing Lives.

Twenty Years of Helping Parents Make Sense of Behaviour.

Now Freely Available.

Practical, compassionate parenting education to help you understand why behaviour makes sense — and decide what to do next.

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Previously available as paid programs. Now available to families & professionals all over the world completely free. No strings attached.

Jackie Hall - Founder
The Parental Stress Centre

Where would you like to start?

Whether you're parenting an autistic child or supporting autistic people professionally, choose the pathway that's right for you.

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Free Autism Webinars —

Explore our free autism webinars for practical support with some of the challenges families commonly face

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Understand why anxiety happens in autism and learn practical strategies to help.

Anxiety in Autism

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Explore the reasons behind aggressive behaviour and discover practical ways to respond with confidence.

Aggression in Autism

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Exploring the Autistic Brain - Including PDA

Discover how the autistic brain works, including what PDA is and how it impacts everyday life.

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Emotional Regulation in Autism & ADHD

Learn why regulation can be hard and explore practical tools to support calmer, more connected days.

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Understand the reasons behind school avoidance and explore supportive, practical strategies.

School Avoidance & Autism

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Practical knowledge. Available to every family. Freely shared.

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What parents and professionals say

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REAL PEOPLE. REAL IMPACT.

We're so grateful to the thousands of families and professionals who have taken the time to share their experience. Here are just a few of their stories.

This is just the beginning.

Over the past 20 years, The Parental Stress Centre has created 15 parenting programs covering some of the biggest challenges families face - from parental stress, anger management and emotional regulation, to communication, conflict resolution and relationships.

We're progressively making this education freely available too.

More programs will be added to the free library soon.

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Parent Stress & Emotions

Understanding your own reactions, reducing stress and finding calmer ways to handle the challenging moments of parenting that you can use throughout all the ages and stages of raising your children.

Explore topics including postnatal and parental depression, anxiety and anger, while learning practical ways to manage your emotions and become the calmer, more peaceful parent you want to be.

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Communication & Behaviour

Making sense of difficult behaviour and knowing what to do at different ages and stages — babies, toddlers, pre-teens and teens (yes, we have a program for each stage!).

Plus, learn how to communicate more effectively, strengthen your connection and support your child to grow into a resilient, confident young person.

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Family & Relationships

From sibling rivalry and relationship conflict to creating a strong family unit with shared values, rituals and connection, we have programs to support the relationships within your family too.

You’ll even find support for building a strong relationship with your child right from the toddler years — creating the foundations for connection as they grow.

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20 years of parenting education. Progressively being made free.