About
Us
The Incredible Years Wales Centre grew out of the Bangor
Child Behaviour
Project which was started by Dr. Judy Hutchings, with colleagues from
the North West Wales NHS Trust and the University of Wales, Bangor,
in 1995. Its aim was to develop and promote evidence based
interventions
for children with conduct disorders and their families. Project staff
have completed a number of funded research projects, all associated
with children who have behaviour management problems. These include
i) a comparison
of two treatments
for CAMHS referred children with severe behavioural problems
ii) development
and evaluation
of a training programme to support health visitors in their work with
the parents of pre-
school
children with behavioural difficulties,
iii) a project on
parental problem
solving and ability to describe their child’s behaviour,
iv) a number of small projects on the
effect on parental mental health of support with child management,
evaluation
of a Sure Start service and a literature review on safe forms of
restraint for children, undertaken for the Wales Assembly
Government.
The project built international links over the years
with Prof. Robert Wahler at Tennessee, Dr. Jerry Patterson at Oregon,
Prof. Matt Sanders at Queensland, Australia and Prof.
Webster-Stratton
at Seattle. It has brought many eminent visitors to Bangor.
Dr Hutchings
is part of the parenting research interest group that meets at Kings
College, London, which acts as a forum for researchers
throughout Britain.
She speaks regularly throughout Britain and oversees about her work.
She has recently served on a Committee set up to identify
evidence based
strategies to help young children at risk of becoming
violent offenders
and has contributed to the recently published report
"Support from
the Start". She has hosted many research and
specialist placements
for local students and for students from America, Canada and France.
The project has produced a number of research reports and published
journal articles, details of which are available from the
project office.
Since 2001 the project has focused its
attention on disseminating
and researching the evidence based Incredible Years parent, child and
teacher classroom management programmes. The Incredible Years Wales
Centre was established in 2003. The centre maintains an
active programme
of training events throughout Wales with opportunities to
train in all
of the Webster-Stratton programmes. It also holds an annual
conference
at Bangor and this year for the first time Professor Webster-Stratton
is attending the conference. Dr. Hutchings is authorised by Professor
Webster-Stratton as a Mentor to train people to deliver the
basic parenting
and therapeutic Dinosaur School programmes. She also
delivers the Webster-Stratton
teacher classroom management programme, both for Gwynedd and Anglesey
teachers and within the Faculty of Education as part of the
M.Ed. programme.
We also have regular training visits from Seattle to
support the classroom
dinosaur school programme.
We are currently engaged in a three year Health Foundation
funded project
evaluating the Webster-Stratton Incredible Years basic
parenting programme
with parents of high risk pre-school children living in 13 Sure Start
designated areas across North Wales.
About
the Incredible Years
The Incredible Years
Teacher, Parent and Child Programmes
Professor Webster-Stratton, at the University of
Washington, Seattle
developed the Incredible Years (IY) Series over the last 30 years. It
comprises three linked programmes for children, teachers,
and parents.
All of the programmes have been rigorously researched over the last
20 years using randomised controlled group studies and have
demonstrated
positive results that have been replicated by independent
researchers.
The accumulated research evidence has demonstrated the effectiveness
of these programmes in both preventing and treating conduct problems
among children aged 2-8 years and increasing their social competence.
The Group BASIC Parenting Programme consists of 12-14
weekly sessions, which emphasize the importance of play, ways to help
children learn, effective praise, use of incentives, limit
setting and
ways to deal effectively with misbehaviour. There is also an Advanced
programme which focuses on adult communication skills and
problem solving
and a School-Aged programme which promotes home school
links and helps
parents to encourage childrens' academic skills.
The Dina Dinosaur Social Skills and
Problem-Solving Curriculum
promotes social and emotional competence in children. Topics taught
include: appropriate class room behaviours, friendship skills, anger
management and problem solving skills, school rules and
success at school.
This school-based programme was developed as a two-year
programme covering
children’s first two years at school.
The Teacher Training Programme promotes
effective classroom
management skills, including: use of teacher attention,
praise, encouragement
and use of incentives, building positive relationships with children,
and how to manage difficult or inappropriate classroom
behaviour.
The Incredible Years
Programmes : Seattle
Click here to find
out more about the work undertaken by Professor Webster-Stratton in
Seattle, giving details on the Parenting programmes, the
Child Therapeutic
Dinosaur School programme, the Teacher Classroom Management
Programme,
their research base and training opportunites.
The Incredible Years
Programmes : Wales
Click here to find
out more about the programmes in Wales.
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