Incredible Years

The Incredible Years Parenting Program has been empirically validated as an intervention for the prevention and treatment of conduct problems in young children.  This unique parent-training program employs over 200 video vignettes of families from diverse backgrounds to model parent competencies and improve parent-child interaction.  The videotape vignettes serve to promote group discussion and problem solving and as stimuli for role-playing activities and rehearsal intervention techniques.  Parents set their own goals through a collaborative group process that respects cultural differences among the participants.  This parent training model is appropriate for latency age children (4 to 10 years old) with early onset conduct problems (tantrums, oppositional behavior, aggression, losing temper, arguing with adults, whining, etc.) and is also appropriate for English and Spanish speaking parents of children.