Several have included families involved with child maltreatment or at high risk of maltreatment, but hardly any have included families who were the
subject of child abuse and neglect reports.41 The Incredible Years (IY) is considered to be one of the most effective interventions for reducing child conduct problems.42 Jamila Reid, Carolyn Webster - Stratton, and Nazli Baydar examined IY, randomly
assigning children to the IY program or to a control group that received usual
Head Start services.43 Children with significant conduct problems and children of mothers whose parenting was highly critical — arguably those dyads most at risk for child maltreatment — benefited most from IY.