Incredible Years Wales:
The Welsh Centre for Promoting
the Incredible Years Programmes
Title:
“Developing
the Incredible Years Parenting Programmes in Norway”
Presented
by: Willi-Tore Morch, University of Tromso, Norway.
Abstract:
The Incredible Years Parenting Programme (IY) was imported
to Norway in 1999 after a Governmental expert group concluded that the treatment
of children and adolescents with conduct disorders was accidental and not based
on available research. The Ministry of Heath and the Ministry of Child and Family
Affairs decided to implement three programmes, IY, Parent Management Training,
Oregon (PMTO) and Multi Systemic Therapy (MST) in order to cover the age range
from small children to adulthood. The presentation reports on the Norwegian
randomised trial research on the IY programme which led up to the national implementation
programme lasting from 2005 to the end of 2008. Professor Mørch will
discuss strategies for programme fidelity, agency “diagnostics” due
to necessary resource allocation and procedures for quality maintenance over
time. Implementation strategies for both treatment and prevention services,
and how these different services are distributed to specialist and community
agencies, will be discussed.