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DATE: 1/21/2010 
CONTACT: Incredible Years (888) 506-3562 
CATEGORY: Treatment Description 
REFERENCE: Webster-Stratton, C., Reid, J.M. 2010. Journal of Children's Services. Vol. 5. 

Adapting The Incredible Years, An Evidence-Based Parenting Programme, For Families Involved In The Child Welfare System 

Each year over three million calls of concern about child maltreatment and neglect, are made to child welfare service agencies in the U.S. Many of the families will have parent training recommended or mandated as sole treatment to remediate inadequate parenting. Parenting interventions must be designed to improve parenting skills in the context of parenting children with significant challenging behaviors. 

Families referred to child welfare for maltreatment and neglect are frequently mandated to attend parenting programmes. Evidence-based parenting programmes (EBPs) are underutilized or not delivered with fidelity for this population. The Incredible Years (IY) Parenting programme is an EPB that has been proven to reduce harsh parenting, increase positive discipline and nurturing parenting, reduce conduct problems, and improve children’s social competence. There is also promising preliminary evidence that IY is an effective for families involved in child welfare (Hurlburt, Nguyen, Reid, Webster-Stratton, & Zhang, under review) and for foster parents (Linares, Montalto, MinMin, & S., 2006). The current paper describes how the updated IY parenting basic programme is delivered with fidelity to this population.

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