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Launching Incredible Years Programs in Your Organization*(*The term "organization" is used to refer to mental health agency, school, child care center or hospital.) The Incredible Years programs have been shown in research to strengthen parenting skills and teacher classroom management skills as well as increasing young children’s social competence and reducing behavior problems. It has been researched with teachers and parents of children ages 2-8 years. This page offers knowledge resources and current research about implementing programs to assist you with planning and launching your program.
Preparation for LaunchWe are happy to help you implement one of the Incredible Years (IY) Parents, Teachers, or Children’s Training Program in your organization. In order to be sure you understand what is involved in delivering these programs with high quality and integrity, we have developed a questionnaire checklist for you to determine your agency’s readiness for using this program. In addition the articles below are extremely helpful. Agency Readiness Questionnaire (PDF) Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature
Implementing Evidence-Based Practices: Six "Drivers" of Success
Impact of Therapists' Skill on Effectiveness of Parenting Groups for Child Antisocial BehaviorDiscovering what makes psychological therapies effective is important theoretically to understand mechanisms of change in human relationships and behavior, and important practically to enable the successful delivery of services. Affirming Diversity: Multi-Cultural Collaboration to Deliver the Incredible Years Parent ProgramsAbstract of an article by Carolyn Webster-Stratton
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"Choosing an evidence-based intervention is the foundation,
but there are additional necessary tools that adept agencies/organizations
must wield to successfully construct an intervention program. Select carefully
trained clinicians and ensure they receive coordinated and accredited training,
coaching, and supervision. Construct adequate scaffolding for the program
by providing a supportive infrastructure, adequate resources and managerial
support. Conduct regular process and outcome evaluations, assuring fidelity
of program delivery. Building this stable scaffolding for your program will
result in higher levels of clinician fidelity and longer term sustainability."
-- Carolyn Webster-Stratton
The
results of this literature review and synthesis confirm that systematic
implementation practices are essential to any national attempt to use the
products of science--such as evidence-based programs--to improve the lives
of its citizens. Consequently, a concerted national effort to improve the
science and the practice of implementation must accompany support for the
science of intervention.
One
of the biggest challenges for practitioners is implementing a new program
or a new practice. This challenge is due, in large part, to a lack of information
on strategies that promote effective and efficient program implementation.
In most cases, implementation strategies have been limited to paper-based
manuals that focus on describing interventions without providing complementary
information on necessary implementation resources and activities. Because
of this, they do not facilitate the real-world application of innovative,
research-based practice.
With
the numbers of minority groups being served in community mental health settings
increasing, there is a need to better understand how evidence based practices
(EBPs) are being tailored to ensure cultural sensitivity and fit with these
populations. While cultural adaptations have been made for specific cultural
groups, the appeal of the more "generic" but culturally sensitive EBP is
that it is cost effective and allows for more flexibility in program delivery
because it can be used with heterogeneous cultural groups rather than single
culture groups. Multicultural groups can also foster greater understanding
among parents of differing cultural backgrounds and experiences leading
to more tolerant and respectful communities. The challenge of this approach
is to train therapists to provide the EBPs using culturally sensitive principles
that are generalizeable across cultures. The Incredible Years (IY) Parenting
program has shown promising effects in many random control group studies
with diverse cultures in United States as well as in other countries. This
paper reviews the “principles” embedded deeply in the IY program, which
are designed to provide a culturally sensitive structure to the delivery
of the program.
How
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