The Incredible Years Parents, Teachers, and Children Training Series has two long-range goals. The first goal is to develop comprehensive treatment programs for young children with early onset conduct problems. The second goal is the development of cost-effective, community-based, universal prevention programs that all families and teachers of young children can use to promote social competence and to prevent children from developing conduct problems in the first place. The purpose of the series is to prevent delinquency, drug abuse, and violence.
The short-term goals of the series are to:
Reduce conduct problems in children
- Decrease negative behaviors and noncompliance with parents at home.
- Decrease peer aggression and disruptive behaviors in the classroom.
Promote social, emotional, and academic competence in children
- Increase children’s social skills.
- Increase children’s understanding of feelings.
- Increase children’s conflict management skills and decrease negative behaviors.
- Increase academic engagement, school readiness, and cooperation with teachers.
Evidence shows that the program has turned around the behaviors of up to 80 percent of the children of participating parents and teachers. If left unchecked these behaviors would mean those children are at greater risk in adulthood of unemployment, mental health problems, substance abuse, early pregnancy/early fatherhood, criminal behavior, multiple arrests and imprisonment, higher rates of domestic violence and shortened life expectancy.
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