The impact of the Incredible Years parent, child, and teacher training programs on children's co-occurring internalizing symptoms.

• DOI: 10.1037/a0025228
• Publication Date: 2011-08-29T17:09:03Z
• Authors: Keith C. Herman; Lindsay A. Borden; Wendy M. Reinke; Carolyn Webster-S...
• Keywords: Parent training; PsycINFO; Child psychotherapy

The Incredible Years (IY) Series includes separate group interventions to improve parenting interactions, teacher classroom management, and child social-emotional regulation. Although originally developed treat early onset conduct problems, IY targets many of the proposed mechanisms risk factors for internalizing distress in childhood. Prior studies have demonstrated effects parent intervention on co-occurring depressive symptoms. We attempted extend these findings by examining unique combined children's One-hundred fifty-nine families with children ages 4- 8-years-old were randomly assigned training (PT); plus (PT + TT); (CT); (CT parent, child, CT or a waiting list control group. Children who received any components more likely lower mother-rated symptoms at posttreatment compared wait-list Implications future research designing prevention strategies are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record