The Incredible Years® Basic Parenting Group Leaders Training 2021

The Incredible Years Basic Parenting Group Leaders Training is fully booked. Thank you for your support.

What is The Incredible Years® Basic Parenting?

The Incredible Years® Series is a set of interlocking, comprehensive, and developmentally based programs targeting parents, teachers and children. The training programs that compose The Incredible Years® Series are guided by developmental theory on the role of multiple interacting risk and protective factors in the development of conduct problems. The programs are designed to work jointly to promote emotional, social, and academic competence and to prevent, reduce, and treat behavioral and emotional problems in young children.

The Incredible Years® Preschool and School Age Basic Parenting Group Leaders Training

Time: 9 am – 12.15 pm

Venue: Online Platform

This 7-day workshop will cover in depth the group-based Preschool and School Age Basic Parenting Programme, which is designed to promote positive parenting strategies and assist parents in managing children’s behaviour problems, building school readiness skills and partnering with teachers and day care professionals so they can promote children’s emotion regulation and social skills.

Programme topics include:

• Helping toddlers feel loved and secure
• Strengthening children’s social, emotion regulation & school readiness skills
• Encouraging cooperative behaviour
• Effective limit setting, rules & routines
• Handling misbehaviour

A ‘Certificate of Attendance’ from The Incredible Years® will be presented to participants after completion of the programme.

Goals of the Training

The programme trains social service professionals on how to coach parents in:

• Promoting children’s social & emotional development
• Child-directed play skills to promote positive relationships
• Promoting toddler’s language with descriptive commenting
• Establishing rules and predictable routines
• Handling separations and reunions
• Academic & persistence coaching to promote school readiness
• Positive attention, praise & incentives to promote cooperative behaviour
• Setting developmentally appropriate limits
• Positive discipline and using distractions, redirections & ignoring to effectively handle misbehaviour
• Teaching children time out
• Helping children learn to calm down & self-regulate
• Teaching children beginning problem solving steps through stories & games

The Incredible Years® School Age Basic Parenting Group Leaders Training

Time: 9 am – 12.15 pm

Venue: Online Platform

This 2-day workshop will present in depth the group-based School Age Basic Parenting Programme, which is designed to strengthen parent-child interactions and attachment, reduce harsh discipline and foster parents’ ability to promote children’s social, emotional, and academic development.

Programme topics include:

• Promoting positive behaviours
• Reducing inappropriate behaviours
• How to support child’s education

A ‘Certificate of Attendance’ from The Incredible Years® will be presented to participants after completion of the programme.

Goals of the Training

The programme trains social service professionals on how to coach parents in:

• Encouraging children’s sense of responsibility and support school learning
• The importance of parental attention and special time with children
• Academic, persistence, emotion & social coaching
• Effective praise and encouragement
• Using incentives to motivate children
• Household rules, responsibilities, and routines
• Monitoring children’s whereabouts
• Clear and respectful limit setting
• Ignoring misbehavior
• Using time out for destructive behavior & extreme oppositional behavior
• Imposing logical & natural consequences
• Promoting reading skills
• Dealing with children’s discouragement
• Fostering good learning habits and routines
• Parent involvement with teachers

Who should attend

• Nurses
• Teachers
• Therapists
• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Special Education Teachers
• Family Life Education Trainers
• Social Service Professionals
• Psychoeducation Therapists

Course Fees

$1,198 per participant for Preschool and School Age

$898 per participant for School Age only

The Incredible Years Basic Parenting Group Leaders Training is fully booked. Thank you for your support.

For enquiries, please email training@morningstar.org.sg with subject title “IY Training”