As evidence increases to show how frequent, poorly resolved inter-parental conflict can impact children’s mental health and long-term chances, support for parents must be easily accessible and non-stigmatised.

Some level of arguing and conflict between parents is often a normal part of everyday life. Indeed, resolving disagreements is an important life lesson children often learn from parents and other significant relationships.

The Solihull Approach is about understanding relationships, a central theme to all our training, courses, and resources. Supporting parents and carers from as early as pregnancy and throughout their developing journey as parents, we help people to read behaviour as communication, to understand their own feelings and wellbeing, reflect on how they express these feelings, and to learn about rupture and repair. Furthermore, the Solihull Approach is grounded in psychoanalytic theory and evidence and, therefore, teaches about the impact of ongoing intense and poorly resolved relational stress on the developing brain, supporting self-reflection through a range of learning techniques to develop conflict resolution skills.