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Description
The aim of the Project is to strengthen positive parenting skills by Implementing Incredible Years Program Module in Lithuania.
Why is it needed?
In Lithuania we do not have enough services, which could fulfil needs of families with children having behavioural problems. The child psychiatry available offers treatments that are often excessive, such as prescriptions of medication or hospitalization. For instance, within one year, hospitalization of children due to mental disorders drastically increased by more than 25% (from 4324 to 5412 in 2016-2017). Many of the children and young people who need the most help, do not get it at all. That is why we need more evidence-based early intervention programs. The implementation of the “Incredible Years” Project could and will help to promote evidence-based, cost-effective interventions that develop positive parent-child relationships and assist in preventing and treating behaviour problems as well as promoting social, emotional, and academic competence before a child becomes an adult.
Main project activities:
- purchasing and adaptation of the Incredible Years training Program module “Preschool Basic Parent Program (3-6 years)”;
- purchasing and adaptation of the Incredible Years training Program module “School Age Basic Parent Program (6-12 years)”;
- selection of the most suitable candidates to become group leaders of the Program and organization of group leaders’ trainings, seeking to ensure the provision of high-quality services in the following stages of the Project implementation (86 persons);
- planning, organization and implementation of parents’ trainings (1116 persons).
Main targeted groups of the Project are: specialists working with children or parents, e.g. social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, public health specialists, special education teachers, etc.; parents of children with behavioural problems and finally, the most important target group is children, who need help.
Summary of project results
Lithuania hasn''t enough services, which could fulfil needs of families with children having behavioural problems. The child psychiatry available offers treatments that are often excessive, such as prescriptions of medication or hospitalization. For instance, within one year, hospitalization of children due to mental disorders drastically increased by more than 25% (from 4324 to 5412 in 2016-2017). Many of the children and young people who need the most help, do not get it at all. That is why we need more evidence-based early intervention programs. The implementation of the “Incredible Years”
The aim of the project is to strengthen positive parenting skills through the implementation of the parent-child component of the “Incredible Years” Programme. The aim is to promote evidence-based, cost-effective interventions that develop positive parent-child relationships and assist in preventing and treating behavioural problems as well as promoting the social, emotional, and academic competences of children.
Main project activities:
1) The Incredible Years training program modules “Preschool Basic Parent Program” and " School Age Basic Parent Program" were purchased and adapted.
2) 102 group leaders were trained which will ensure the provision of high-quality services to families with children having behavioural problems.
3) 1216 parents were trained according The Incredible Years training program modules.
The Project strengthened positive parenting skills by implementing Incredible Years 2 training programmes modules in Lithuania.
Main targeted groups of the project are: specialists working with children or parents, e.g. social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, public health specialists, special education teachers, etc.; parents of children with behavioural problems and finally, the most important target group is children, who need help.