“…The 3PDA includes some content similar to the children program (e.g., understanding the relationship between thoughts, emotions and behaviours, promoting mastery and leisure activities, communication skills training, problem solving training and conflict resolution) and other more innovative content such as promotion of parenting skills of emotional validation and compassion for the children. We highlight the most innovative contents: i) emotional validation -focused on emotional recognition, labelling and expression (Leahy, 2002(Leahy, , 2005; parents learn not only to validate the emotions of their children but also to teach their children to differentiate and properly express the emotional experience, helping them to develop emotional regulation skills; ii) compassion -an important emotional regulation strategy to deal with negative emotions (e.g., sadness, shame, anxiety, anger) that will facilitate affiliative relations (Gilbert & Procter, 2006); compassion will be developed in parents as a way to achieve tolerance , acceptance and responsiveness regarding the suffering of the children , in a warm and friendly attitude.…”