Evaluation of The Incredible Years in Sweden: The Transferability of an American Parent-Training Program to Sweden

Children with disruptive behavior problems (DBPs) constitute a large group among those cared for by child and adolescent social and psychiatric services. Serious anti-social behaviours, such as truancy,stealing, robbery and drug abuse, are very costly for society. Therefore, from a societal point of view, it is important to identify DBPs and introduce interventions already during the preschool years, aiming to prevent pathways leading from oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) to severe conduct problems in middle childhood and adolescence.

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Year: 2012
Bibliography: Axberg, U., and Broberg, A. G. 2012. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 53, 224?232. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2012.00955.x.
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