Table 1.

The Guidelines and the corresponding subsections of the parenting scale and module components

Guidelines subheading	Corresponding subsection of the parenting scale and feedback report	Title of interactive module	Outline of content	Rationale for inclusion
You can reduce your child’s risk of developing depression and clinical anxiety	NA. Not included in parenting scale or feedback report.	Not included in the modules	Psychoeducation about the role of parents in the prevention of depression and anxiety in primary school-aged children.	Endorsed by experts.
Establish and maintain a good relationship with your child	Relationship with your child	Topic 1: Show affection and acceptance	Helps parents show their children physical affection and acceptance through words and actions.	Sound evidence that parental warmth is associated with less internalizing symptoms. Emerging evidence that parental warmth is associated with fewer depression symptoms.
		Topic 4: Make time to talk	Helps parents develop a supportive relationship with their child by learning effective ways to talk and listen to their child.
Be involved and support increasing autonomy	Involvement in your child’s life	Topic 2: Be involved	Helps parents stay involved and interested in their child’s life.	Emerging evidence that parent’s knowledge regarding their child′s activities, whereabouts and friends (parental monitoring) is associated with less anxiety and depressive symptoms.
		Topic 3: Encourage autonomy	Helps parents encourage increasing age-appropriate autonomy in their child’s life.	Sound research evidence that over-involvement and autonomy granting are risk and protective factors, respectively, for depression; endorsed by experts.
Encourage supportive relationships	Child’s relationships with others	Topic 9: Topic Encourage supportive relationships	Provides strategies for parents to support their child’s social skills development.	Emerging evidence that parental encouragement of sociability is associated with less child anxiety; endorsed by experts.
Establish family rules and consequences	Rules and consequences for your child	Topic 6: Establish family rules and consequences	Highlights the importance of consistent and clear boundaries for child’s behaviours, and provides specific strategies to establish these.	Emerging evidence of the association between inconsistent discipline and internalizing symptoms; endorsed by experts.
Encourage good health habits	Health habits	Topic 5: Encourage healthy habits	Provides strategies to help parents encourage good health habits in their child, including a healthy diet, physical activity, good sleep habits, and appropriate screen time.	Endorsed by experts
Minimise conflict in the home	Home environment	Topic 10: Manage conflict in the home	Addresses the need for adaptive conflict management between parents, and between parent and child, and provides specific strategies to do these.	Evidence that inter-parental conflict and aversiveness (including parent-child conflict) are risk factors for depression (sound evidence) and anxiety (emerging evidence); endorsed by experts.
Help your child to manage emotions	Managing emotions	Topic 8: Help your child manage emotions	Helps parents understand and talk about their child’s emotions as well as provides parents strategies to help children manage strong emotions.	Emerging evidence that parents modelling anxiety is associated with anxiety symptoms in children. Endorsed by experts.
Help your child to set goals and solve problems	Setting goals and dealing with problems	Topic 7: Help set goals and solve problems	Provides strategies for parents to help their children develop good problem-solving skills.	Endorsed by experts.
Support your child when something is bothering them	Dealing with negative emotions	Topic 11: Help your child manage anxiety	Provides strategies for parents to help their children manage their everyday anxiety.	Emerging evidence that parents modelling anxiety is associated with anxiety symptoms in children. Endorsed by experts.
Help your child to manage anxiety so that it does not become a problem	Dealing with negative emotions	Topic 11: Help your child manage anxiety	Provides strategies for parents to help their children manage their everyday anxiety.	Emerging evidence that parents modelling anxiety is associated with anxiety symptoms in children. Endorsed by experts.
Encourage professional help seeking when needed	Getting help when needed	Topic 12: Seek help	Helps parents understand what depression and anxiety problems can look like in primary school- aged children and what they can do if their child is/becomes unwell.	Endorsed by experts; evidence that parents are important conduits to children seeking professional help for mental health problems.
	Do not blame yourself (not included in the Guidelines and parenting scale, but included in feedback report for all parents)	NA. No module on this topic.	Aims to dispel guilt/self-blame in parents.	Endorsed by experts.