TY - JOUR IS - 4 Y1 - 2023/11// A1 - Maynard, Emma A1 - Sims-Schouten, Wendy A1 - Fairchild, Nikki A1 - Warhurst, Amy PB - The Policy Press UR - https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16697219676128 SP - 519 TI - Family stories; investigating trauma-informed narratives, change behaviours and environments in complex family experiences KW - parents; children; family; qualitative psychology; social care N2 - This article presents our Family Stories model identifying self-reported change behaviours and environments by families developed from our two-phase research in an inner-city area in the south of England. The research focused on parents whose families had experienced complex issues affecting the behaviour, wellbeing, learning and/or safety of children, and who had received social care support from services that had broadly adopted a trauma-informed approach. We identified parents? self-reported change behaviours and environments, in the context of the high rate of families relapsing and returning for multiple episodes of support. We also identify key challenges to securing long-term positive change, including the barriers to nurturing a strong and successful parenting identity, in which parents are more able to sustain positive change. Our model identifies four enablers, evident in the self-reported change behaviours narrated by our participants: community, allyship, strategy and mastery. VL - 12 ID - discovery10159327 N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. SN - 2046-7435 EP - 536 JF - Families, Relationships and Societies AV - public ER -