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| Ranking |
Effective Practice |
| Description |
The Incredible Years series is a set of comprehensive curricula targeting children age 2 to 10 years old and their parents and teachers. The curricula are designed to work jointly to promote emotional and social competence and to prevent, reduce, and treat children's behavioral and emotional problems. The series includes programs for parent training, child training, and teacher training. |
| Goal / Mission |
The Incredible Years Parents, Teachers, and Children Training Series has two long-range goals. The first goal is to develop comprehensive treatment programs for young children with early onset conduct problems. The second goal is the development of cost-effective, community-based, universal prevention programs that all families and teachers of young children can use to promote social competence and to prevent children from developing conduct problems in the first place. |
| Results / Accomplishments |
Six randomized control group evaluations of the parenting series by the program developer and colleagues at the University of Washington as well as five independent replications by other investigators has indicated significant:
- Increases in parent positive affect such as praise and reduced use of criticism and negative commands.
- Increases in parent use of effective limit-setting by replacing spanking and harsh discipline with non-violent discipline techniques and increased monitoring of children.
- Reductions in parental depression and increases in parental self-confidence.
- Increases in positive family communication and problem-solving.
- Reduced conduct problems in children¹s interactions with parents and increases in their positive affect and compliance to parental commands.
Two randomized control group evaluations of the teacher training series by the program developer and colleagues at the University of Washington
- Increases in teacher use of praise and encouragement and reduced use of criticism and harsh discipline.
- Increases in children's positive affect and cooperation with teachers, positive interactions with peers, school readiness and engagement with school activities.
- Reductions in peer aggression in the classroom.
Two randomized control group evaluations of the child training series indicated significant:
- Increases in children's appropriate cognitive problem-solving strategies and more prosocial conflict management strategies with peers.
- Reductions in conduct problems at home and school. |
| Categories |
Social Environment / Children's Social Environment
Education / School Environment
Social Environment / Family Structure
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| Organization(s) |
The Incredible Years |
| Source |
Promising Practices Network |
| Date of Publication |
Aug 2006 |
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| Primary Contact |
Lisa St. George
The Incredible Years
1411 8th Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
(206) 285-7565
lisastgeorge@comcast.net
http://www.incredibleyears.com/
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| For more details |
http://www.promisingpractices.net/program.asp?p...
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| Target Audience |
Children, Families |
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