Commonly asked questions regarding Incredible Years randomized control group treatment research with families with children with conduct problems

 


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Adapting the Incredible Years Child Dinosaur Social, Emotional, and Problem-Solving Intervention to Address Co-Morbid Diagnoses

Webster-Stratton, C., & Reid, M. J. 2008. Journal of Children's Services. Vol. 3.

Co-morbid diagnoses related to children with ADHD and developmental delays including autism spectrum disorders. Co-morbid diagnoses related to children with ADHD and developmental delays including autism spectrum disorders.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
11/13/2008

Adopting and Implementing empirically supported interventions: A recipe for success

Webster-Stratton, C., and Taylor, E.T. 1998. A. Buchanan & B. L. Hudson (Eds.). Aldershoot, England: Ashgate Pub.

Controlled studies have demonstrated that there exist today a number of effective therapies and services for children and families which can reduce behaviour problems

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
1/17/1998

Affirming Diversity: Multi-Cultural Collaboration to Deliver the Incredible Years Parent Programs

Webster-Stratton, C. 2007. Unpublished manuscript, University of Washington, Seattle.

While no one will dispute the importance of providing culturally sensitive EBPs that respect family values and traditions, there is a debate about how to accomplish this.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
10/17/2007

Affirming diversity: Multi-cultural collaboration to deliver the incredible years parent programs

Webster-Stratton, C. 2009. International Journal of Child Health and Human Development. V.2.1. pp. 17-32. ISSN: 1936-5965.

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.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
10/8/2009

Community-based Support for Parents (Book chapter)

Hutchings, J., Webster-Stratton, C. 2004. Community-based support for parents. In M. Hoghughi and N. Long (Eds.), Handbook of parenting: Theory and research for practice (pp. 334-351). London: Sage Publications.

The job of parenting has become more difficult in recent years.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
9/1/2004

Disseminating Incredible Years Series Early-Intervention Programs: Integration and sustaining services between school and home

Webster-Stratton, C., Herman, K. 2009. Psychology in the Schools, Vol. 47(1), 2010. Copyright Wiley Periodicals, Inc. www. interscience.wiley.com DOI: 10.1002/pits.20450.

The biggest obstacle for schools in providing prevention and intervention services to children with emotional, behavioral, and school readiness problems does not lie in the failure to appreciate the importance of addressing these problems or in a lack of available evidence-based programs.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
1/1/2010

Effectiveness of a Self-Administered Training Program for Parents of Children With ADHD

Walcott, C., Carlson, J., Beamon, H. (in press) Copyright 2009 by the National Association of School Psychologists, ISSN 1938-2243.

Results from this study support future research on this program within the ADHD population.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
1/3/2009

Impact of Therapists' Skill on Effectiveness of Parenting Groups for Child Antisocial Behavior

Scott, S., Carby, A., and Rendu, A. 2008. King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry. University College London.

Discovering 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.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
1/20/2008

Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature

Fixsen, D. L., Naoom, S. F., Blase, K. A., Friedman, R. M. & Wallace, F. 2005. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, The National Implementation Research Network (FMHI Publication #231).

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.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
9/22/2005

Implementing Behavioral Intervention Components in a Cost-Effective Manner: Analysis of the Incredible Years Program

Olchowski, A., Foster, E. M., & Webster-Stratton, C. 2007. Implementing behavioral intervention components in a cost-effective manner: Analysis of the Incredible Years Program. Journal of Early and Intensive Behavioral Intervention, 4(1), 284-304.

Multi-component interventions for conduct disorder that target several contexts of a child’s life (both home and school environments) are generally more effective than single-component behavioral interventions.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
3/8/2007

Implementing Evidence-Based Practices: Six "Drivers" of Success. Part 3 in a Series on Fostering the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices in Out-Of-School Time Programs

Metz, A. J., PhD., Blase, K., PhD., and Bowie, L., M.A. 2007. Child Trends (www.childtrends.org). Brief Research to Results. Publication #2007-29.

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.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
10/15/2007

Incredible Years Basic Parenting Programme: The Clondalkin Partnership Study in Ireland

Clondalkin Partnership; Incredible Years Initiative in Clondalkin. 2006.

The Clondalkin Partnership began the implementation of the Incredible Years (IY) programme in 2004 in order to create a community-based solution to a national problem. The IY BASIC Parent Training program was the first to be implemented on a trial basis.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
5/6/2006

Preliminary data on the efficacy of the Incredible Years Basic Parent Programme in New Zealand

Fergusson, D., Stanley, L., and Horwood, L. J. 2009. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 43:1,76-79. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048670802534382

The present research note summarizes the findings of a preliminary examination of the effectiveness and cultural acceptability of the Incredible Years Basic Parent Programme delivered in New Zealand.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
9/1/2009

Promoting Early Childhood Mental Health through Evidence-based Practice

Thompson, MSW, LICSW. 2009. Healthy Generations. Winter 2009-10. pp. 26-27. Center for Leadership Education, University of Minnesota.

In 2009, Wilder Research completed an outcome report of data collected since implementing the Incredible Years programs (2005-2009). Children showed statistically significant improvements in all five behavioral domains: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity-inattention, peer problems, and pro-social behavior.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
12/10/2009

The Importance Of Implementation Fidelity

Mihalic, S., Director, Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative. 2002. Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, 442 UCB, Boulder, Colorado, 2002.

The Blueprints initiative has been in the forefront in identifying exemplary programs that have been evaluated in rigorous, controlled trials, and much attention has been focused nationally on selecting and implementing quality programs.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
1/22/2002

The Incredible Years Parent, Teacher, and Child Intervention: Targeting Multiple Areas of Risk for a Young Child With Pervasive Conduct Problems Using a Flexible, Manualized Treatment Program

Reid, J., Webster-Stratton, C. 2001. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice 8, 1077-7229/01/377-386.

Parent training must be broadly based and flexible enough to help families cope not only with aggressive and noncompliance behavior at home, but also target individual goals for children who are anxious, socially isolated, rejected by peers, or hyperactive.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
1/23/2001

The Incredible Years Teacher Training: The Methods and Principles that Support Adaptation and Dissemination with High Fidelity

Webster-Stratton, C., Incredible Years Corporation., Reinke, W., and Herman, K.C., University of Missouri. 2011. (in press).

The Incredible Years Series is best understood as a set of principle-driven, dynamic interventions that were developed in applied settings and that are flexibly adapted to each cultural context for children from varying developmental abilities based on ongoing dialogue and collaboration between participants and group leaders.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
2/4/2011

The Self-Administered Incredible Years Parent Training Program: Perceived Effectiveness, Acceptability, and Integrity With Children Exhibiting Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Implementation article also)

Carlson, J.S., PhD, NCSP, Michigan State University. Ogg, J.A., PhD. University of South Flordia. 2009. Journal of Evidence-Based Practices for Schools, vol.10, no.2.

This study is an example of dissemination research, which intends to provide information about interventions implemented within natural settings. Whereas the efficacy of the Incredible Years program has been quite well researched-especially when carried out via group approach-there are less data on the effectiveness of this treatment.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
12/1/2009

Webster-Stratton's Program: Implementering I skole og barnehage I to kommuner (This article is in Norwegian)

Tveit, A., and Arnesen, B. 09 2007. Norwegian Special Education Journal. 20-29.

The Incredible Years implementation in Norway. This article is in Norwegian.

Library Category: Implementation and Dissemination
9/1/2007

 

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