Categories
Categories associated with best practice:
Overview
The Incredible Years (IY) is a set of three comprehensive, multifaceted, and developmentally based curricula for parents, teachers, and young children aged 12 years and younger. The program is designed to promote emotional and social competence. It is also designed to prevent, reduce, and treat aggression and emotional problems which are risk factors for developing substance abuse problems, becoming involved with deviant peer groups, dropping out of school, and engaging in delinquency and violence.
The Incredible Years curricula may be implemented by schools, school districts, and related programs (including Head Start, day care, and kindergarten) as early prevention programs for teachers, parents and children. Additionally, the child and parent programs may be used in mental health centers as a treatment for families with children who are diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder/Conduct Disorder (ODD/CD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or for high risk families.
Multiple randomized controlled trials involving both at risk children and children diagnosed with ODD/CD have demonstrated that the Incredible Years is effective in promoting positive classroom management strategies, improving parenting skills, reducing child externalizing and internalizing problems at school and at home, and increasing children’s emotional literacy, social skills, problem solving, and compliance.
Primary Source Document
N/A
Contact information of developer(s) and/or implementer(s)
N/A
Intervention Focus
N/A
Health Issue(s) that is/are addressed by the Intervention
N/A
N/A
Specific Activities of the Intervention
N/A
Priority/Target Population for Intervention Delivery
N/A
Outcomes
N/A
Adaptability
Implementation History
N/A
Expertise Required for Implementation within the Context of the Intervention
N/A
Are there supports available for implementation?
N/A
Are there resources and/or products associated with the interventions?
N/A