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. 2016 Jan 13;5(1):e1. doi: 10.2196/resprot.4837

Table 3.

Topics and sessions in the online training module “Setting limits”.

Session Topics
1. Welcome
  • Short introduction in why setting limits is important for parents and what they will learn in this training module

  • Testimony by parent why it is hard to set your limits

  • Information how they can ask their social environment for support

2. Saying “no”, why it is important
  • Test how easily parents say no

  • Information about why it is important to say no, the advantages, and why it is so difficult

  • Testimony by parent why it is difficult

  • Information about thoughts and their influence on saying no

  • Exercise to write down their thoughts

3. Saying “no”, how to do?
  • Information about different ways to say no (sub assertive, assertive, aggressive), steps in how you can say no and what is important

  • Exercises to say no, varying from easy to difficult and to become aware what went right and wrong

  • Tips to discuss the exercise with their partner or friends

4. Handing over the care
  • Testimonies of parents why it is difficult to hand over the care for their child to others

  • Information about why it is important to hand over their child’s care

  • Exercise to hand over their child, for example: to become aware of the advantages of handing over care

  • Exercise with their partner to discover which activities they find important and how they can make time for it

  • Exercise to define their social network, to discover who can provide what kind of support

  • Tips by health care professionals and parents to hand over care

  • Exercise to describe what they can do when things go wrong

  • Phone numbers of health care professionals when parents find it hard to hand over their care