The "I Can Problem Solve" School-Based Violence Prevention Project Harolyn Belcher, Principal Investigator
“I Can Problem Solve” (ICPS), formerly known as Interpersonal Cognitive Problem Solving, is a school-based intervention that trains children in generating a variety of solutions to interpersonal problems, considering the consequences of these solutions, and recognizing thoughts, feelings and motives that generate problem situations. By teaching children to think, rather than what to think, the program seeks to change thinking styles and, as a result, enhance children’s social adjustment, promote pro-social behavior and decrease impulsivity and inhibition. This promising program is being implemented in six (kindergarten to 3rd grade) classrooms at Mary Rodman Elementary School. Teacher behavior ratings of children are conducted monthly in the six ICPS intervention classrooms and five control classrooms. A total of 197 children are in the eleven classrooms participating in the evaluation. A masked baseline classroom assessment was conducted by Dr. Belcher’s evaluation team twice in one year.
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