1. Incredible Years Parent Training Programs
(2008)
The Incredible Years parent training intervention é uma série de
programas centrados no fortalecimento das competências parentais (monitoring,
positive discipline, confidence) e fostering o envolvimento parental nas experiências
escolares das crianças para promover as competências académicas, sociais e
emocionais das crianças e reduzir os problemas de comportamento. Os Programas
Parentais agrupam-se de acordo com a idade. Babies & Toddlers (0-3 anos), BASIC
Early Childhood (3-6 anos), BASIC School-Age (6-12 anos) and ADVANCE (4-12
anos).
The Leader's manuais para estes programas incluem questões comummente
colocadas pelos pais, tempestade de ideias e values exercises, sugestões de práticas
de role play, actividades home e handouts. Estes manuais podem ser usados quando o
programa estiver a ser auto administrado por um pai ou professor em casa, clínica ou
escola.
Os programas parentais são recomendadaos pela American Psychological Association
Task Force as meeting the stringent quot;Chambless criteriaquot; for empirically supported
mental health intervention for children com problemas comportamentais.
Experts in Action: Parent Program Sessions
Group leaders/clinicians who have received the initial training
workshop for the BASIC Parenting Program will find these tapes an invaluable resource
for furthering their group leadership skills. These tapes can be used for self-study or
viewed with other group leaders and used as a trigger for discussion of group
leadership skills.
View a 1 minute video clip
(This clip is from a Cross-Cultural Parent Group Program session)
2. About Us
Os Programas The Incredible Years foram desenvolvidos por Carolyn Webster-
Stratton, M.S.N., M.P.H., Ph.D., Professor e Director da Parenting Clinic na
Universidade de Washington.
É enfermeira Licenciada em Psicologia Clínica e tem
publicado numerosos artigos científicos avaliando
programas de treino para ajudar famílias e professores
com crianças altamente agressivas, desobedientes,
hiperactivas e desatentas. Tem tido longas experiências
clínicas, ajudando mais de 1,000 famílias cujas crianças
foram diagnosticadas com problemas de comportamento
e défice de atenção.
Ainda, tem oferecido o seu programa de treino a professores e pais que as escolas e
intervenções baseadas na comunidade designaram para a prevenção da escalada dos
problemas de comportamento da infância para a adolescência. Este currículo tem sido
adoptado por muitos centros de saúde mental de crianças, centros Head Start,
agencias protectoras de crianças e escolas throughout the U.S., Canadá e Reino
Unido.
O Professor Webster-Stratton é o recipient do prestigiado National Institute of Mental
Health Research Scientist Award.
BASIC – Programa para o Pré – Escolar/Early
Childhood
3 aos 6 anos de idade – Treino composto pelos Programas 1 a 4. O programa centra-
se no fortalecimento das competências parentais e consiste em componentes which
build upon one another.
3. Programa 1 – Fortalecimento das Competências Sociais das
Crianças, Regulação Emocional e Competências School
Readiness
Programa 2 – Recorrer a Praise e Incentivos para Encorajar o
Comportamento Cooperativo
Programa 3 – Disciplina Positiva - Regras, Rotinas e Effective Limit Setting
Programa 4 – Disciplina Positiva - Handling Misbehavior
Materiais do Programa:
• 9 DVD's (9 horas no total) que podem ser exibidos em 18 a 20 sessões de
grupo semanais (2 horas cada)
• comprehensive leader manual (consiste em mais de 800 páginas de quot;Comoquot;,
incluindo questões leader para discussão, actividades para casa e
interpretação de vídeos)
• “notas “ semanais para pais quot;refrigerator notesquot; (breves pontos para lembrar
durante a semana)
• Pais take-home practice assignments para actividades para casa
• Livro para pais intitulado de The Incredible Years: A Troubleshooting Guide
for Parents (também disponível em CD áudio - 15 capítulo em 8 CD's)
• refrigerator magnets
• poster da piramide – a piramide mostra como o programa constroi
inicialmente uma fundação positiva, enfatizando as competências para
relações, antes mesmo de começar a discussão das estratégias de disciplina
BASIC Visitas Domésticas na idade pré – escolar – manuais para
Treinadores e Pais
O Programa para pais de crianças em idade pé-escolar desenvolveu um modelo de
treinador ao domicílio. Este modelo de interacção pai-treinador é uma opção para pais
quenão podem estar presentes nos grupos parentais because of schedule conflicts ou
se o programa de grupo não está disponível no memento necessário ao inicio da
intervenção na família. O modelo pode ainda ser usado para pais que frequentam um
grupo Incredible Years mas que precisam de treino adicional em casa com as suas
crianças. Os pais que beneficiam destas visitas ao domicílio do treindor podem inserir-
se nos seguintes contextos:
• pais sinalizados ou com ordem de frequentar o Programa IY devido a abuso
ou negligência das crianças
4. • pais que faltaram a algumas sessões de grupo IY por motivo de doença ou
work schedules
• pais que frequentam os grupos IY e que têm dificuldades em compreender e
aplicar as técnicas parentais recomendadas com as suas crianças e/ou não
cumpriram os home assignments
• pais com developmental delays ou doença mental
Estas visitas a casa podem ser feitas por quot;treinadores ao domicílioquot; que têm recebido
treino autorizado nos conceitos e princípios do Incredible Years. Durante etas visitas a
casa os treinadores ajudam os pais a praticar targeted estratégias parentais as quais
têm tido dificuldade em implementar com as suas crianças. Os treindores podem ainda
apresentar alguns videos adicionais additional video vignettes not covered nos
gruppos, de forma a reforçar a sua aprendizagem. Adicionalmente aos protocolos para
10 áreas tópico topic areas, existem ainda mauais para pais relativos aos 4 tópicos
centrais, para que os pais possam manter track of their goals para cada sessão,
brainstorming decisions, values exercises, leituras e práticas com as suas crianças. (os
Pais usam os manuais do programa Self-Administered)
5. Incredible Years Series Training Program News
Sample Sessions - An Invaluable Tool for Group Leaders, Therapists
and Teachers
Preschool BASIC Parent Training Program -
Group leaders/clinicians who have received the initial training workshop for the BASIC
Parenting Program will find these tapes an invaluable resource for furthering their
group leadership skills. These tapes can be used for self-study or viewed with other
group leaders and used as a trigger for discussion of group leadership skills.
View a video clip from a Parent Program sample session
Child Dinosaur Small Group Sample Sessions for Group
Leaders/Therapists -
Group leaders will find this set of 7 2-hour group sessions covering each of the
dinosaur session topics an invaluable resource for furthering their group leader skills.
These videos can be used for self-study or viewed with other group leaders and used
as trigger for discussion of group leadership skills. A detailed manual accompanies
these DVDs.
View video clips of the Dina Dinosaur Child Training Program (Small Group) sample
sessions
Child Dinosaur Classroom Sample Circle Time Lessons for Teachers -
Group leaders will find this set of lessons covering each of the dinosaur session topics
an invaluable resource for furthering their delivery of the dinosaur curriculum. These
videos can be used for self-study or viewed with other teachers and used as trigger for
discussion and sharing ideas. A detailed manual accompanies these DVDs.
View a video clip of a Dinosaur Classroom Child Program sample session
New Babies and Toddler Parent Training Programs!
6. The Incredible Years Parents and Babies and Toddlers programs support parents in
specific ways by learning how to observe and read babies’ cues and signals and
understanding babies as intelligent learners. And understanding how to use emotion
coaching to build toddlers' emotional vocabulary and encourage their expression of
feelings. Read more about these new programs
New September 2007 - Updated and Fully Revised Programs for
Children Ages 6-12 Years in DVD
We have recently released the revised and updated new video vignettes (VHS and
DVD) and leader’s manual for the School Age and Advance Programs. Programs have
been expanded to include children ages 6-12 years. Vignettes include multi-cultural
parents including Hispanic, African American, Asian and Caucasian mothers and
fathers.
Program Eight: Supporting Your Child’s Education (4 Parts)
• Showing interest in school and homework
• Coaching children’s math and spelling homework
• Promoting reading skills
• Motivating children who are discouraged
• Setting up predictable after school homework routines
Program Nine: Promoting Positive Behaviors in School Age Children (4
Parts). Topics include parents:
• Building positive relationships with children through “special time” including
parents participating in outside sports, cooking, reading, games and special
projects with children
• Using academic and persistence coaching to encourage children’s continued
efforts with a difficult or frustrating task
• Coaching children’s social and emotional self-regulation skills
• Promoting positive sibling interactions and family teamwork
• Understanding ways to promote children’s positive cultural identity
• Involving other family members in helping children feel cared for
Program Ten: Reducing Inappropriate Behaviors in School Age Children (4
Parts)
• Monitoring and setting up after-school routines
7. • Establishing family rules, responsibilities and routines
• Setting limits around computer and TV use
• Being respectful and clear with limit setting
• Practicing how to take a time out to calm down
• Talking to children about drugs and alcohol
• Monitoring children’s whereabouts
• Imposing logical consequences for breaking household rules
• Supporting children’s homework routine and school success
New October 2007 Updated and Fully Revised Advance Programs in
DVD
• Family communication skills
• Single parents problem solving and getting support
• Learning strategies to cope with stress, anger and depression
• Learning how to collaborate with teachers to help children succeed in school
• Planning for successful parent-teacher conferences
• Using 5 problem solving steps to develop children’s behavior plans
• Parents teaching children to problem solve
• Family problem solving meetings regarding household chores, morning and
after school routines, homework, computer use, and drug use
Coming March-April 2008 Updated and Fully Revised Preschool
Programs 1-4 (ages 3-6 years)
We have revised and updated VHS and DVD for the Basic Preschool Program.
Vignettes include families representing multi-cultural groups including Hispanic,
African American, Asian and Caucasian mothers and fathers. New topics include:
• Social and emotional coaching
• Academic and persistence coaching to promote school readiness skills
• Understanding how to cope with children’s tantrums and defiance
• Helping children learn emotional self-regulation
8. • Training children for cooperative behavior - in the grocery store, while on the
telephone, dressing, or being out in public
• Using child-directed approaches to promote learning in a variety of situations
including- cooking together, setting and clearing the table, dish washing
• Learning self-care hygiene routines including teeth brushing, flossing,
bathing and hand washing routines
• Establishing predictable routines including dressing in the mornings, getting
ready for school, going to bed, doing homework, and handling separations
and reunions
• Promoting enjoyable family mealtimes and polite meal time manners
• Fostering children’s responsible behavior
• Building positive sibling interactions and family teamwork
• Understanding ways to promote children’s positive cultural identity
Involving other family members in helping children feel cared for
Incredible Years Series Training Programs
The Incredible Years: Parents, Teachers, and Children Training
Series is a comprehensive set of curricula designed to promote social competence and
prevent, reduce, and treat aggression and related conduct problems in babies,
toddlers, young children, and school-aged children. The interventions that make up
this series—parent training, teacher training, and child training programs are guided
by developmental theory concerning the role of multiple interacting risk and protective
factors (child, family, and school) in the development of conduct problem.
To read more about each training program - click the menu choices at left.
9. View a graphic representation of the Incredible Years Programs (PDF)
Incredible Years Series - Program Goals
The Incredible Years Parents, Teachers, and Children Training Series has two long-
range goals.
The first goal is to provide cost-effective, early prevention programs that all families
and teachers of young children can use to promote social, emotional, and academic
competence and to prevent children from developing conduct problems. The second
goal is to provide comprehensive interventions for teachers and parents that are
targeted at treating and reducing the early onset of conduct problems in
young children (ages two to eight years).
The short-term goals of the series are to:
1. Strengthen children's social skills and appropriate play skills (turn taking, waiting,
asking, sharing, helping, complimenting).
2. Promote children's use of self-control strategies such as effective problem solving
steps
3. Increase emotional awareness by labeling feelings, recognizing the differing views
of oneself and others and enhancing perspective taking.
4. Boost academic success, reading and school readiness.
5. Reduce defiance, aggressive behavior, and related conduct problems such as
noncompliance, peer aggression and rejection, bullying, stealing and lying.
6. Decrease children's negative cognitive attributions and conflict management
approaches.
7. Increase self-esteem and self-confidence.
The long-term goals of these early prevention programs are to:
1. Reduce violence, drug abuse and delinquency in later years.
10. 2. These short- and long-term goals are accomplished by promoting parent, teacher
and child competencies.
Promote parent competencies and strengthen families:
1. Increase positive and nurturing parenting.
2. Reduce critical and violent discipline approaches by replacing spanking with
positive strategies such as ignoring, using logical and natural consequences,
redirecting, adequate monitoring, and problem-solving.
3. Improve parents' problem-solving skills, anger management, and communication
skills.
4. Increase family support networks and school involvement.
5. Help parents and teachers work collaboratively to ensure consistency across
settings.
6. Increase parents' involvement in children's academic-related activities at home.
Promote teacher competencies and strengthen home-school
connections:
1. Strengthen teachers' effective classroom management skills, including proactive
teaching approaches.
2. Increase teachers' use of effective discipline strategies.
3. Increase teachers' collaborative efforts with parents and promotion of parents'
school involvement.
4. Increase teachers' ability to teach social skills, anger management, and problem-
solving skills in the classroom.
5. Decrease levels of classroom aggression.
Targeted Risk and Protective Factors
1. Parenting Practices. Harsh or ineffective parenting skills (such as spanking), a lack
of parental monitoring and nurturing relationship with children and low
involvement in school-related activities are related to the development of children's
aggressive behavior, poor social skills, and academic underachievement (which in
themselves are important risk factors for the development of violence,
delinquency, and substance abuse). Training in effective parenting can not
only reduce violence and boost parents' self-confidence but also contribute to
children's enhanced social competence, which will then in turn promote stronger
bonding and relationships with parents (which are linked to positive child
outcomes).
2. Teaching Practices. Harsh and critical teaching approaches, a poorly managed
classroom and failure to collaborate with parents contribute to escalating classroom
aggression, which, in turn facilitates the ongoing development of aggression, the
child's poor attachment to the teacher and school, and eventual school dropout.
Training in effective classroom management strategies and curriculum related to
promoting emotional and social literacy can not only reduce aggression
and rejection but also contribute to children's enhanced social competence and
stronger school bonding.
3. Child Social Competence: Young children with poor social skills are more likely to
be rejected by their peer group and to become lonely, isolated and unhappy. Over
time this exclusion provides fewer and fewer socialization opportunities with other
children which in turn contributes to their social and emotional lags. Eventually
such children may develop friendships with other children who are isolated,
depressed and aggressive and form deviant peer groups. Training children with
poor social competence in skills such as how to play with other children, affective
awareness, how to be friendly and talk to peers as well as in self-control and how
to problem solve conflict situations can result in less aggressive responses, more
11. positive friendships and belonging to more prosocial groups (which in themselves
are important protective factors).
Targeted Outcome Variables
Child Conduct Problems. Young children with high rates of
aggressive behavior problems have been shown to be at greatest risk for continuing on the
trajectory to deviant peer groups, school drop out, delinquency, substance abuse, and
violence. Ultimately the aim of the teacher, parent and child training programs is to
prevent and reduce the occurrence of aggressive and oppositional behavior, thus reducing
the chance of developing later delinquent behaviors. Each of the programs in the
Incredible Years Series seeks to alter the quality of relationships between parents and
children, teachers and children, teachers and parents, group facilitators and parents, and
children with their peers.
Incredible Years Training Series Program
Objectives
Overview of the Incredible Years Training Programs. Clicking on a specific program will
display a table detailing the content and objectives of each training program for that
group. (These are PDF documents)
Overview of the Incredible Years Parent, Teacher, and Child Training Programs
The links below open pages within the full Objectives Table PDF that includes all
Parent Programs.
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12. Program Name: Parenting Skills - Baby
Babies & Toddlers • Getting to know your baby
Program (Ages 0-3) • Understanding how babies learn
• Providing physical, tactile & visual
Babies Content &
stimulation
Objectives
• Understanding how to help babies feel
loved & secure
• Learning how to talk & play with babies
Toddler Content & • Understanding baby development
Objectives • Learning how to keep babies safe
• Parents developing support systems
Parenting Skills - Toddler
• Child-directed play skills
• Descriptive commentary, social &
emotional coaching
• Praise & encouragement
• Establishing clear & predictable routines
& adequate monitoring
• Setting developmentally appropriate
limits
• Using distractions, redirections & ignore
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Program Name: Early Parenting Skills - Preschool
Childhood BASIC • Child directed play skills
Program (Ages 3-6) • Academic persistence
• Social & emotional coaching
Early Childhood
• Praise & incentives to
Content & Objectives
encourage cooperative
behavior
• Establishing rules, predictable routines &
promoting responsibility
• Setting clear respectful limits-following
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• Learning how to manage misbehavior
• Helping children learn to calm down &
self-regulate
• Teaching children time out
• Teaching children beginning problem
solving steps
Program Name: Parenting Skills - School Age
School Age BASIC • Parents' special time with children
Program (Ages 6-12) • Academic, persistence, emotional & social
(Programs 9,10) coaching
• Using praise incentives effectively
School-Age Content
• Household rules, routines &
& Objectives
responsibilities
• Monitoring children & whereabouts
• Use of ignore & consequences
• Using time out for destructive behavior &
extreme oppositional behavior
• Imposing logical & natural consequences
Program Name: Academic Skills
Supporting Your • Academic stimulation
13. Child's Education • Learning routine after school
Program • Homework support
• Reading
Content &
• Limit setting
Objectives
• Involvement at school
• Teacher conferences
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Program Name: Interpersonal skills
ADVANCE Parent • Problem Solving
Training Program • Anger management
(Ages 4-12) • Communication
• Depression control
ADVANCE Content
• Giving and getting support
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Classroom management skills
• Promoting parent involvement
Program Name:
• Proactive teaching strategies
Teacher Classroom
• Effective praise & incentive systems
Management
• Managing misbehavior
Content & • Promoting social skills &
Objectives Problem solving
Program Name: Dina Social skills
Dinosaur Social Skills • Sharing
and Problem-Solving • Helping
Curriculum • Waiting, taking turns
• Teamwork, cooperation
Content &
Objectives
Self-Regulation Skills
• Anger management
*Curriculum available
• Calm-down strategies
for prevention
• Problem-solving
(classroom) or small
• Waiting
group treatment
Classroom Behavior
14. • Quiet hand up
• Compliance
• Listening
• Stop-look-think-check
• Concentrating
Download Complete Treatment Objectives (7 Tables)