Prepared for Child and Youth Mental Health Services - British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development Welcome Spring 2007 — Children's Behavioural Wellbeing HOT OFF THE PRESS An evaluation of the Incredible Years Welcome to our Spring issue of the Children’s Mental Health program has just been published in the Research Quarterly, produced by the Children’s Health Policy British Medica [...] Current Articles IN COMMENTARY Disruptive behaviours: The numbers, the causes and the costs of not intervening We respond to questions from policy-makers, practitioners and parents about how common disruptive behaviours are. [...] To highlight the most effective programs, we examine newly-published research findings and recap results from our previous review on conduct disorder, building on some of the themes covered in the Winter issue of the Quarterly. [...] How we reviewed the research Many of the known Our research team conducted a systematic review of the recent causes of children’s research on effective prevention and treatment programs for serious behaviour problems, disruptive behaviours. [...] The study showed the program is also cost effective and a “good value for money for public spending.”2 Benefits to parents’ mental health and the behaviour of siblings were also found.