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Incredible Years Series Training Programs
The Incredible Years programs have been evaluated by the developer and independent investigators. Evaluations have included randomized control group research studies with diverse groups of parents and teachers. The programs have been found to be effective in strengthening teacher and parent management skills, improving children's social competence and reducing behavior problems. Evidence shows that the program have turned around the behaviors of up to 80 percent of the children of participating parents and teachers. If left unchecked these behaviors would mean those children are at greater risk in adulthood of unemployment, mental health problems, substance abuse, early pregnancy/early fatherhood, criminal offending, multiple arrests and imprisonment, higher rates of domestic violence and shortened life expectancy.
Incredible Years training programs give parents and teachers strategies to manage behaviors such as aggressiveness, ongoing tantrums, and acting out behavior such as swearing, whining, yelling, hitting and kicking, answering back, and refusing to follow rules. Through using a range of strategies, parents and teachers help children regulate their emotions and improve their social skills so that they can get along better with peers and adults, and do better academically. It can also mean a more enjoyable family life. Incredible Years Series - Program Fact Sheet (PDF) Incredible Years Series Overview (PDF)
Program Blocks - A graphic of the Incredible Years Series (PDF) How the Parent and Teacher Programs WorkParents or teachers meet as a group, with two trained facilitators and are given opportunities to collectively and individually develop new strategies for managing their children. The course includes role plays, homework, setting personal goals, and feedback. Facilitators use video taped scenes to encourage group discussion, problem-solving and sharing of ideas. Parents and teachers are given handouts, activities to practice with children, and reminder notes to put on their refrigerator or blackboards. To read more about each training program - click the menu choices at left. |
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© 2012 The Incredible Years, Inc. All rights reserved. "THE INCREDIBLE YEARS" and all related trademarks are owned by The Incredible Years, Inc. USA. Limited use of trademarks and copyrighted material is by license from The Incredible Years, Inc. All program materials must be ordered through www.incredibleyears.com. (Dinosaur Puppet © 2012 Axtell Expressions, Inc.) Please let us know if you discover a broken link, so we can check on it. However, please be advised that we are unable to offer technical assistance for opening the documents on our site. Most of our documents are in the PDF format and the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in is required. Some of the very large files, such as our program manuals are compressed. After downloading a compressed file, you must extract it. Windows users: right-click on the downloaded file and choose 'extract' from the popup menu. Mac users: open "Finder" and navigate to the file you wish to extract and double-click to extract it to the same folder. |
The Incredible Years programs for parents
and teachers reduce challenging behaviors in children and increase their
social and self-control skills. 
Read
about implementing our programs, view outcomes and more!
We
highly recommend that a parent attend the group sessions with a
partner father, girlfriend, grandparent, teacher someone who is very
involved in their child's life. Our research has shown that those
parents who participate in the groups with a partner have more
sustained effects on our longer term follow-ups. These partners can
support each other in their parenting efforts and provide more
consistency in responses to their children.