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QUANTITATIVE FINDINGS
Results of a 2-year long waitlist-control mixed-methods study on Integra YW, including 3 waves of YW participants, show that parents reported significant changes in two areas:
1. Increases in their child’s ability to self-soothe (p = .012)

2. Decreases in their child’s level of anger and frustration (p = .049)

Also significant, was an exceptionally high level of engagement for mental health programming: clients/students attending an average of 18 (out of 20) classes/wave.
QUALITATIVE FINDINGS
- Changes in emotion regulation.
- Process of mastery/rising to the challenge (physical challenge, tests, client-centred/individually tailored, scaffolding)
- Sense of belonging and connectedness
- Learning and retention of therapeutic skills in self-regulation