Welcome to the 2006 Conference page.
'Researching and Promoting the Webster-Stratton Incredible Years Parent, Child and Teacher Programmes'.
Welcome to our 2005/6 Incredible Years Wales Annual Conference, organised from our Centre at the University of Wales, Bangor. This year's conference gives an update on progress in developing Professor Carolyn Webster-Stratton's Incredible Years (IY) programmes across Wales as well reporting on developments further afield. The parent, child and teacher programmes are more and more in evidence across Wales and our research, replicating Carolyn's early intervention study, with our partners in eleven Sure Start Services in North and Mid Wales, and Oswestry has produced excellent results. During the conference you will hear how effective this was in changing parent and child behaviour in a positive direction and producing significant improvements in parental mental health. I would like to thank our Sure Start partners, many of whom are here and will be receiving their leader certification certificates from Carolyn today. These are part of our evidence that the programmes have been delivered in Wales as originally designed.
I would like to thank Jane Davidson, Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning, at the Wales Assembly Government (WAG) for her continuing interest in our work, since visiting one of our schools to learn about the Dinosaur School programme back in 2002, and for agreeing to open the conference. We appreciate her interest and are delighted that from April 2006 WAG are funding leader training for the parenting programme, across Wales, as part of the Parenting Action Plan for Wales. I would also like to welcome our speakers from Norway, Oxford, London and Manchester who have come to share with us their research and experiences of developing the programmes.
We would like to extend a special welcome to Carolyn who has travelled so far to get here for the second time in just over a year. We appreciate how fortunate we are to have her recognition of, and support for, the work in Wales. She has supported our efforts, welcomed our team to Seattle and been constantly available by e-mail to advise and help us to sort out our problems. Welcome back to Wales once again Carolyn. We have established the programmes in Wales so quickly because Carolyn has helped us to develop our own training resources, making the programmes more widely accessible in Wales than in some other places. Our newsletter, the directory of contacts across Wales and the posters on display at the conference describe some of these developments. The parent and child programmes are being delivered as early intervention preventive programmes, as universal programmes (for example the Gwynedd Classroom Dinosaur School programme) and as therapeutic interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for referred children and families. Over the last year we have started training people to deliver the teacher classroom management programme and this too is becoming more widely available.
The conference brings together people from across Wales and further afield. Many of you have had to work hard to obtain funds to access the training and resources to make sure that your service users get effective evidence based interventions. The conference is an opportunity to network with, and support, one another. From our base, at Bangor, we are continuing to organise training and provide ongoing support and advice to people from April 06 with the support of the Welsh Assembly Government. We encourage programme leaders to work towards leader certification, so that you can be sure that you are delivering the programmes with fidelity. My personal goal is to establish a network of certified leaders and mentors across Wales to enable the programmes to reach yet more children and families. There are promising signs that this is already beginning to happen. Powys, for example, have taken a lead as the first Trust in appointing Sue Evans to lead on IY developments in the county.
Finally thanks to all of the IY team led by Tracey, our research officer, and Dilys, our administrator, who all work tirelessly and very collaboratively to cope with the many demands and enquiries about our training and research activities.
Enjoy the conference and join us in celebrating Carolyn's visit and the wonderful work that is going on in Seattle, Norway, England and throughout Wales.
Judy Hutchings. January 2006.
Presentations given at the 2006 conference. Please click on your desired option for abstracts.
- "Developing and researching the Incredible Years Programmes in Wales, Setting the scene".
Dr Judy Hutchings, NWW NHS Trust and Director Incredible Years Cymru, University of Wales, Bangor.
- "Findiings from the Sure Start Incredible Years BASIC Parenting Programme Study".
Dr Tracey Bywater, School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor.
- "Randomised trial of the Webster-Stratton Parenting Programme in Sure Start services in Wales: Examining effects on parenting skills and predictors of child outcomes.
Dr Frances Gardner, University of Oxford.
- "An economic evaluation of the Incredible Years BASIC Parenting Programme".
Dr Rhiannon Tudor-Edwards & Alan Kelleher, Centre for Economics and Health, University of Wales, Bangor.
- "Developing the Incredible Years Parenting Programmes in Norway".
Prof. Willi-Tore Morch, University of Tromso, Norway.
- "Making the shoe fit: Tailoring the Incredible Years Parent and Child Programmes to address co-morbid diagnosis and family risk factors".
Prof. Carolyn Webster-Stratton, University of Washington, Seattle and Director Parenting Clinic, Seattle.
- "Engaging hard to reach families".
Dr Caroline White, Manchester Clinical Psychological Service.
- "Using the Incredible Years Programme with adoptive parents".
Jeanne Kaniuk & Norma Sargent, the Coram Institute, London and Kay Henderson, Anna Freud Centre, London.