Table 1 Overview of intervention content: strong parents, resilient families booklet

Introduction

• Definition of resilience

• Simple model of family resilience

• Instructions and summary of booklet content

• Case study

1. Building a strong family

• Getting to know my family activity

• Shared lives, shared milestones timeline activity

• Family support inventory activity

2. Building a resilient family

• Resilient families factsheet

• Family strengths checklist activity

• Maintain routines activity

• Looking after yourself and each other activities

• Family communication factsheet and worksheet

• Hints and tips for spending time together as a family

• Positive thinking worksheets

• Problem solving factsheet and worksheet

• Respectful relationships factsheet/worksheet

• Parenting tips factsheet and parenting strategies worksheet

• Understanding an illness factsheet and self-management activity

3. Preparing for the future

• List of family support services