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Incredible Years

The Incredible Years training series reduces risk factors and increases protective factors for children and families by promoting parent involvement, increasing positive teacher relationships with children and their parents, increasing children's social competence, and promoting children's self-regulation skills. The following resources offer information on the Incredible Years program and its effectiveness.

	The Incredible Years Describes the parent, child, and teacher programs and offers information on certification, evaluation results, newsletters, and other program resources.

Programs That Work: Incredible Years
Promising Practices Network (2006)
A program summary that includes relevant outcomes and indicators, evidence level, program overview, evaluation methods, key evaluation findings, implementation details, funding, probable implementers, issues to consider, example sites, contact information and available resources, and a bibliography.

A Promising Parenting Intervention in Foster Care
Linares, Montalto, Li, & Oza
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74(1), 2006
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Evaluates the effectiveness of a two-component intervention, including a 12-week Incredible Years parenting course, for biological and foster parents to improve parenting practices, co-parenting, and child externalizing problems.

The Role of Mental Health Factors and Program Engagement in the Effectiveness of a Preventive Parenting Program for Head Start Mothers (PDF - 167 KB)
Baydar, Reid, & Webster-Stratton
Child Development, 74(5), 2003
Study of parenting skills in mothers with mental health risk factors enrolled in the Incredible Years Parent Training Program.

Updated on February 24, 2010