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The Incredible Years - School Age Basic program (“IY-School Age”) can be offered as a group-based prevention or treatment program designed for parents of children (6 to 12 years). The program typically targets higher risk populations and parents of children diagnosed with problems such as oppositional defiant disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). IY-School Age aims to strengthen parent-child interactions and attachment and reduce harsh discipline. It also aims to foster parents’ abilities to promote children’s social, emotional, and academic development and reduce behavior problems. IY-School Age focuses on 3 developmentally appropriate topics during the sessions: (1) promoting positive behavior, (2) reducing inappropriate behaviors, and (3) supporting children’s education. During each group session, parents watch 8 to 10 situational video vignettes. They engage in discussions facilitated by the group leaders and problem solve about best parenting practices. Parents are encouraged to complete activities at home to apply the skills they learned with the group.
The Incredible Years – Toddler Basic Program (“IY-Toddlers”) is a group-based program designed for parents with toddlers (1 to 3 years). The program typically targets higher risk parents who need support forming secure attachments with their toddlers or addressing their toddlers’ behavior problems. It also helps parents create secure and safe environments for children, establish routines, use appropriate discipline, and reduce behavior problems. IY-Toddlers focuses on 8 developmentally appropriate topics during the sessions: (1) child-directed play, (2) promoting toddler’s language, (3) social and emotion coaching, (4) praise and encouragement, (5) incentives, (6) separations and reunions, (7) limit setting, and (8) handling misbehavior. During each group session, parents watch 8 to 10 situational video vignettes. They engage in discussions facilitated by the group leaders and problem solve about best parenting practices. Parents are also encouraged to complete activities at home to apply the skills they learned with the group.
Individual Combined Parent-Child Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Individual CPC-CBT) is designed for families with children ages 3–17 in which parents are at-risk of engaging in or have already engaged in abusive behavior towards their children. Individual CPC-CBT aims to help children heal from abusive experiences, empower parents, strengthen parent-child relationships, and enhance family safety. The model supports parents who engage in a continuum of coercive parenting behaviors, ranging from verbal threats to unsubstantiated or substantiated physical abuse. All caregivers in the child’s life (e.g., biological parents, foster parents, grandparents) and siblings are encouraged to participate in the program. Unlike Group CPC-CBT, Individual CPC-CBT involves meeting with a single family.
Intensive Care Coordination Using High Fidelity Wraparound (Wraparound), also known as High Fidelity Wraparound, uses an individualized, team-based, collaborative process to provide a coordinated set of services and supports. It is typically targeted toward children and youth with complex emotional, behavioral, or mental health needs, and their families. Throughout the process, youth and their families work with a care coordinator who convenes, facilitates, and coordinates efforts of the wraparound team. The care coordinator further helps the family navigate planned services and supports, including informal and community-based options; tracks progress and satisfaction to revise the plan of care as needed; and ensures program fidelity.
Intercept®, formerly known as Youth Villages (YV) Intercept, provides intensive in-home services to children and youth at risk of entry or re-entry into out-of-home placements or who are currently in out-of-home placements (e.g., foster care, residential facilities, or group homes). The program is designed to reduce foster care utilization by providing prevention services to children and their families of origin. For children already in foster care, Intercept aims to reduce time spent in foster care by providing reunification services to children and their families of origin. Family Intervention Specialists use an integrated, trauma-informed approach to offer individualized services intended to meet the needs of children and their families of origin. Specialists address needs identified in children’s schools, peer groups, neighborhoods, and communities. Specialists also support the family in school or legal meetings and are on-call to provide crisis support 24/7. Intercept uses an online resource called GuideTree® to facilitate treatment.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) (Weissman, et al. Manual) is designed to treat adult patients who have been diagnosed with major depression. It can be delivered on its own or in combination with medication. IPT (Weissman, et al. Manual) aims to support patients in improving interpersonal relationships or circumstances that are directly related to the current depressive episode.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents (IPT-A) is designed to treat adolescents with depressive disorders. IPT-A is an adaptation of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for depressed adults (Weissman, et al. Manual). In IPT-A, therapists focus on the reciprocal relationship between mood and relationships. Therapists also focus on the impact on depressive symptoms. IPT-A aims to help adolescents identify their feelings and understand how interpersonal and environmental factors impact their mood, strengthen communication and problem-solving skills, improve interpersonal skills and relationships, and manage or decrease depressive symptoms. IPT-A is an individual treatment, however, therapists might also meet with parents or guardians for 1-3 sessions as needed.
KEEP SAFE is a parent skills training and support program designed for foster and kinship parents of teens age 13 and older. KEEP SAFE is an adaptation of KEEP Standard and can be delivered to informal kinship parents who are caring for a child outside of the child welfare system (such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles) using KEEP Connecting Kin – SAFE. KEEP SAFE aims to empower parents to be agents of change for the teens in their care and ultimately decrease placement disruptions, increase permanency, and improve teen outcomes. KEEP SAFE uses a trauma-informed approach focusing on: (1) reinforcing normative and pro-social behavior, (2) incentivizing positive behavior, (3) building cooperation, (4) teaching new behaviors, (5) using gentle and effective limit setting, and (6) managing emotions while parenting.
KEEP Standard (KEEP), formerly known as Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported, is a parent skills training and support program designed for foster and kinship parents of children ages 4–12. KEEP can be delivered to informal kinship parents who are caring for a child outside of the child welfare system (such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles) using KEEP Connecting Kin – Standard. KEEP aims to empower parents to be agents of change for the children in their care and ultimately decrease placement disruptions, increase permanency, and improve child outcomes. KEEP uses a trauma-informed approach focusing on: (1) reinforcing normative and pro-social behavior, (2) incentivizing positive behavior, (3) building cooperation, (4) teaching new behaviors, (5) using gentle and effective limit setting, and (6) managing emotions while parenting.
KEEP Toddler, an adaptation of KEEP Standard, is a parent skills training and support program designed for foster and kinship parents of children ages 2–4. KEEP Toddler can be delivered to informal kinship parents who are caring for a child outside of the child welfare system (such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles) using KEEP Connecting Kin – Toddler. KEEP Toddler aims to empower parents to be agents of change for the children in their care and ultimately decrease placement disruptions, increase permanency, and improve child outcomes. KEEP Toddler uses a trauma-informed approach focusing on: (1) reinforcing normative and pro-social behavior, (2) incentivizing positive behavior, (3) building cooperation, (4) teaching new behaviors, (5) using gentle and effective limit setting, and (6) managing emotions while parenting.