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The Incredible Years are
research-based, proven effective programs for reducing children's
aggression and behavior problems and increasing social competence at
home and at school.
Just Released! A New Book for
Teachers!
Incredible Teachers: Nurturing Children's Social, Emotional, and Academic Competence
A
new book by Carolyn Webster-Stratton for teachers. Nurturing positive relationships with students and parents promotes academic growth.
Learn more about this incredible new book!
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School Age Parent Program in Chinese
This program will have a mixture of dubbed and subtitled vignettes, and a selection of the main handouts for parents translated into Chinese.
Available for advance purchase. $1300, and will ship by May 15.
Contact us for more information!
Experts in Action - Parent Home Coaching
These 2 DVDs* show an accredited Incredible Years group leader deliver the home-based version of the basic parenting program with a mother of two children. The first and third home sessions are shown to illustrate concepts such as explaining the parenting pyramid; determining parent goals; pulling out principles from parents' ideas; mediating video vignettes; promoting self-reflection; setting up home practices with children; and experiential learning. IY group leaders, coaches and mentors
will learn about the Incredible Years program delivery in an individual
situation. A manual of discussion suggestions is included.
*DVDs are only available in NTSC format - PAL customers overseas can
play the DVDs on computer only.
Available for advance purchase. $295, and will ship by April 30.
Contact us for more information!
New Sample DVDs Released!
New set of sample Incredible Years
workshop DVDs. More info
The Incredible Years Programs
 The
Incredible Years, our
award-winning parent training,
teacher training, and child social skills training approaches have been
selected by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention as an "exemplary" best practice program and as a "Blueprints"
program.
The program was selected as a "Model" program by
the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). As such, the series
has been subject to numerous randomized control evaluations, evidenced
excellent effectiveness, and attained high overall ratings. The program
has been recommended by the American Psychological Division 12 Task
force as a well-established treatment for children with conduct
problems.
Carolyn Webster-Stratton and the Incredible
Years Series
Carolyn
Webster-Stratton's biographical profile (PDF)
Mission & Organizational Statement
We act on the belief – that a child is the most
precious of all human beings, and the ability to withstand the emotional
and social challenges as a teenager, clearly rests upon a caring
relationship between parent, teacher and child.
Read the full organizational
and mission statement
Question & Answer Video Clips
 These
short video clips feature Carolyn Webster-Stratton. Carolyn answers frequently
asked questions by group leaders about the Incredible Years programs, the
training model and practices, and implementation methodology.
Watch the clips
Casey Family Programs Evaluation of the Incredible Years Parent Training
Program
Read the Summary (PDF)
The study finds evidence-based program was associated with decreased
caregiver stress, more empathy toward children, and greater social
support. (in press; read the
abstract here)
New Reports: Incredible Years in Ireland
Positive Classrooms, Positive Children (PDF)
A Randomised Controlled Trial to investigate the effectiveness of the
Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management programme in an Irish
context. An Archways report.
Parent
Training Changing Lives (PDF)/a>
Testing the benefits of the IY Parent Programme in Ireland. An Archways
report.
Previews: Dinosaur Social and Emotional Skills Curriculum for Children and Teacher Classroom Management Program
These two evidence-based programs for preschool and early primary grade teachers and students are designed to strengthen proactive teacher classroom management strategies and positive teacher-parent partnerships in order to promote children's social and emotional skills, academic readiness, and to reduce behavior problems. Watch these two preview videos for a description of the child dinosaur social and emotional curriculum and the teacher classroom management program.
this will be replaced by the SWF.
this will be replaced by the SWF.
A paper published in 2008 in Journal of Child Psychology
and Psychiatry (article)
details evidence that teachers of preschool and kindergarten children who were
trained in both the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management program and
the Incredible Years Social and Emotional Curriculum (Dinosaur School) were
observed in their classrooms to have students who had more social competence and
emotional regulation skills and fewer conduct problems than students in the
control conditions. Intervention teachers also reported more parent involvement
than teachers in control conditions. This universal prevention study consisting
of 42 Head Start classrooms and 59 kindergarten and 44 1st grade elementary
classrooms, selected based on having higher levels of free and reduced lunch
(59%), were randomly assigned to the intervention or control conditions. There
were 153 teachers and 1,768 students in the study representing low-income and
multi-ethnic populations (18% Latino, 18% African American, 20% Asian, 8%
African, 27% Caucasian and 9% other minority).
Preview: Incredible Years BASIC Preschool Parent Program
While all children in the above study received the universal classroom teacher and child intervention programs, some higher risk students were randomly assigned to receive the
Parent Program or Classroom-only intervention. Mothers of those who received the combined
Parent and Classroom interventions reported their children to have fewer externalizing problems and more emotional regulation than classroom-only or control mothers.
Independent observations showed more mother-child bonding, support and less criticism than the classroom only and control mothers. Teachers reported that mothers in the combined condition were more involved in school and that children in both the combined condition and classroom condition had significantly fewer behavior problems. This study was published in 2007 Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
(read this
article). Learn more about the Parent
Program.
this will be replaced by the SWF.
The Incredible Years Series Goals
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.
The purpose of the series is to prevent
delinquency, drug abuse, and violence. The short-term goals of the
series are to:
Reduce conduct problems in children:
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Decrease negative behaviors and noncompliance with parents at home.
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Decrease peer aggression and disruptive behaviors in the classroom.
Promote social, emotional, and academic competence in
children:
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Increase children's social skills.
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Increase children's understanding of feelings.
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Increase children's conflict management skills and decrease negative
attributions.
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Increase academic engagement, school readiness, and cooperation with
teachers.
Incredible Years Series - goals, objectives
and logic models
Incredible Years - Overview of the Programs
 Young
children need developmentally appropriate and nurturing responses from
parents and teachers that will prevent more serious problems, repair
problematic relationships, and help them develop the social-emotional
skills they need to succeed in life.
Incredible Years
Series Overview (PDF)
Incredible Years Series Fact Sheet (PDF)
Solution #1 Offer parenting programs
Parent training remains the single most effective strategy for
preventing behavior problems and promoting social and emotional
competence.
View the Parenting Program Overview (PowerPoint PDF)
Solution #2 Provide teachers training
Teacher training in classroom management skill reduces aggression and
increases children's social and emotional competence as well as school
success.
View the Teacher Program Overview (PowerPoint PDF)
Solution #3 Provide children with social and emotional training
Child training produces improvement in social behavior with peers at
school. For highly aggressive children the combination of parent and
teacher/child training produces better long-term results than either
alone.
View the Child Program Overview (PowerPoint PDF)
Using the Incredible Years Series Programs by Population Served
The Incredible Years Programs are designed by levels of intervention.
The program chosen by your agency for dissemination will depend on the
characteristics of the population served.
Read the overview of the levels.
View the Levels of Intervention Pyramid
Incredible Years Implementation in New Zealand
Watch these clips about the New Zealand
implementation of the Incredible Years programs.
this will be replaced by the SWF.
this will be replaced by the SWF.
Helping Young Aggressive Children Beat the Odds: Parents, Children,
Teachers and Dinosaurs
The University of Washington 2006 Annual Faculty Lecture by Carolyn
Webster-Stratton, PhD.
Watch the video
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Read
about implementing our programs, view outcomes and more!
A
new book by Carolyn Webster-Stratton. This book is an update of the 2001
Blueprints Book Eleven and provides a synthesis of 30 years of research
as well as detailed descriptions of each the programs.
Information
for agencies about implementing the interventions with fidelity.
Guidelines
and strategies for parents to promote children's social and emotional competence.
New
Spanish version of the book includes the first 10 chapters.
