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Konstantinidou, Ioanna; Dillenburger, Karola; Ramey, Devon – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2023
Positive Behaviour Support is an applied behaviour analytic system of support that is utilised in schools and in residential care settings for children and adults with disabilities who engage in challenging behaviour. Implementation fidelity depends on appropriate staff training and organisational behaviour management. A systematic literature…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Program Effectiveness, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
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Standing, Vicky; Fearon, Colm; Dee, Tim – International Journal of Educational Management, 2012
Purpose: In response to an increasingly high level of exclusion rates for boys within secondary school in the UK, this study seeks to explore the value of restorative practice and justice for changing student behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: As a piece of action research, the authors aimed to look at how methods of restorative practice…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response)
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Frederickson, Norah; Jones, Alice P.; Warren, Laura; Deakes, Tara; Allen, Geoff – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2013
An initial evaluation of the utility of designing an intervention to address neuroscience-based subtyping of children who have conduct problems was undertaken in this pilot study. Drawing on the literature on callous-unemotional traits, a novel intervention programme, "Let's Get Smart", was implemented in a school for children with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Neurosciences, Cognitive Development, Behavior Problems
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Miller, William R.; Rose, Gary S. – American Psychologist, 2010
Responds to M. Stanton's comments on the current author's original article. One of the puzzles of motivational interviewing is why it works at all. How can it be that an individual interview or two yields change in a long-standing problem behavior even without any effort to alter social context? The time involved is such a tiny part of the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Behavior Modification, Interviews, Behavior Change
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Hayes, Ben; Hindle, Sarah; Withington, Paul – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2007
This paper describes an extended action research project run in a large secondary school over an 18-month period. The work was part of a wider strategy for change within the school. The data presented here describes some of the features of the change process and reflections on its impact. A key aim was to challenge and enable teachers to modify…
Descriptors: Feedback, Focus Groups, Action Research, Positive Reinforcement