Families who displayed greater levels of distress and higher levels of problems, particularly higher child disruptive behaviour or parental depression found greater positive effect, with more improvement from this intervention. Status — Participants were first-generation Korean American mothers of young children (3-8 years old). The evidence was high strength and based on studies in England, Wales, Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Portugal. The authors highlight that given the extreme consequences and potential high public health and financial cost, there is a good rationale for early preventative parenting programmes for parents of children who display persistent disruptive behaviour.

The curriculum includes over 60 lesson plans for use by teachers for children aged 3-8 (the curriculum is broken up into three “levels” for different developmental stages). The training also includes classroom management strategies that enhance children’s prosocial skills and reduce behavior plans. The training teaches the following content: child-directed play, academic, persistence, social and emotional coaching, praise and encouragement, predictable routines, effective limit setting, nonphysical discipline alternatives, teaching children to problem solve, and supporting children’s education. The training will also teach how to use this program as a prevention program in elementary schools and preschools. This training workshop covers in depth the Autism Spectrum and Language Delays Parenting Program for parents of children ages 2–5 years old. Group leaders attending this training should have prior experience working with children on the autism spectrum or their families. It is recommended that Group Leaders attending this training have previously attended the Basic Parent Group Leader Training and have experience running Incredible Years® groups. This workshop will train group leaders to deliver the Autism Spectrum and Language Delays Program in a parent-group setting. This program can be used as a stand-alone, following the 14-16 session protocol for a group of parents all of whom have children on the autism spectrum or with language delays. It can also be used by group leaders delivering the Toddler or Preschool Parenting Programs as a supplement if there are parents in the group with children on the autism spectrum or with language delays. The program representative did not provide information about a Logic Model for The Incredible Years (IY). The role of mental health factors and program engagement in the effectiveness of a preventive parenting program for Head Start mothers. Child Development, 74(5), 1433-1453.Children also benefited from the intervention in Manchester with the proportion of children with clinical behavioural problems falling from 69 to 32 per cent. The review considered whether characteristics of delivery, such as staff training or number of sessions, affected intervention outcomes. However, given the small number of included studies the authors were hesitant to draw any conclusions from this. What are the costs and benefits? Incredible Years is an evidence based parenting programme in which parents learn to break negative parent-child interaction cycles. It has been rolled out in England and Wales. Dissemination issues such as recruiting families, obtaining training, choosing the best SEL curriculum for your agency, assuring program fidelity, and assessing program outcomes.

Conduct problems have been shown to be the single most important predicting factor of later chronic antisocial behaviour problems. These can include poor mental health, academic underachievement, early school leaving, teenage parenthood, delinquency, unemployment and substance abuse. Many young people displaying these behaviour problems go on to engage in youth offending, family violence, and ultimately serious adult crime. The Incredible Years parenting programme tended to show a positive effect on harsh and inconsistent parenting. This is based on high strength evidence. This included reductions in corporal punishment, threatening and shouting. The authors used a public sector perspective when considering the cost effectiveness of the intervention, taking into account the cost of the intervention itself as well as the cost to the public sector.

The Incredible Years Parents, Teachers and Children’s Series are evidence-based programs evaluated in numerous randomized control group studies by the developer and other independent researchers to prevent and treat behavior problems in young children. This series was selected as a Blueprints for Violence Prevention program in 2001 because it was shown to reduce risk factors for violence and crime. Additionally the programs have been shown to promote protective factors such as positive parenting and teaching focused on strengthening children’s social and emotional competence and school readiness. Between September 2017 and August 2018, CAPS delivered 75 Incredible Years parenting courses to 989 parents of children aged under four.

Children involved in these interventions were between two and 10 years old. Older and younger children were found to be equally likely to benefit from involvement in the Incredible Years programme. This training workshop will present in depth the Dina Dinosaur Child Social Skills, Emotional Regulation & Problem-Solving Training for Children designed by Dr. Webster-Stratton to help young children who have behavior problems. The program focuses on ways to promote children’s emotional literacy, anger management, appropriate conflict management strategies, expected classroom behaviors, and positive social skills or friendship behaviors with other children and adults. wpfilebase tag=fileurl path='resources-for-teachers/Chapter-4-Teacher-Book.pdf' linktext='"Incredible Teachers" Excerpt (Chapter 4)' /][spacer]There was no difference in effectiveness by ethnicity, meaning that families of all ethnicities are equally likely to benefit from the intervention. The Incredible Years programme has been implemented in numerous places and contexts. In Manchester (England) the intervention has been delivered by the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust’s Children and Parents Service (CAPS). In the city, at least 20 per cent of the city’s population of 34,000 under-fives is at risk of having or developing behavioural problems. Cost-effectiveness analyses suggests that the Incredible Years intervention can provide savings to the public sector in the longer term. Using a collaborative and flexible approach, the intervention can be shaped by each parent to meet the needs of their own family.