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The extended school aged Incredible Years parent programme
Author(s) -
Hutchings Judy,
Bywater Tracey,
Williams Margiad Elen,
Whitaker Chris,
Lane Eleanor,
Shakespeare Kate
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2010.00590.x
Subject(s) - mental health , depression (economics) , psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , pediatrics , medicine , psychiatry , economics , macroeconomics
Background: This paper reports on outcomes for the Incredible Years (IY) parent programme with parents of 8‐13 year olds. Method: The sample consisted of 280 parents of children at risk of adolescent antisocial behaviour, mean age 10.3 years. Results: Paired t tests for both the per protocol (t(113) = 8.41, p < .001) and intention‐to‐treat (t(258) = 7.37, p < .001) data found significant improvements in child behaviour problems (ECBI). Statistically significant improvements were also found for parental depression and parenting skills. Conclusions: The Incredible Years School Aged programme is effective in improving child behaviour, parenting competencies and parental mental health with parents of youngsters aged 8–13 years.