The Incredible Years

The Incredible Years are research-based, proven effective programs for reducing children's aggression and behaviour problems and increasing social competence at home and at school.

The parent training intervention is focused on strengthening parenting competencies (monitoring, positive discipline, confidence) and fostering parents' involvement in children's school experiences in order to promote children's academic and social competencies and reduce conduct problems.

The parent program can be used by counsellors, psychologists, nurses, social workers, family therapists and other mental health professionals who are interested in conducting parenting groups for parents of children with behaviour problems, or for preventing problems from occurring in the first place.

The programme is based around two modules, the first is concerned with helping parents to learn strategies for promoting positive behaviours by looking at the importance of parental attention and special time, the importance of praise and encouragement and reward systems. The second helps them to learn strategies for reducing inappropriate behaviours by looking at effective limit setting, ignoring misbehaviours, time out, natural and logical consequences and teaching children to problem solve.