Staff strategies and explanations for intervening with challenging behaviours: a replication in a community sample
Carers' beliefs about challenging behaviours may partially determine their behavioural responses to them. The present study replicated previous work on the beliefs of institution staff and their explanations about interventions for challenging behaviours (Hastings 1996) with a sample of 56 community staff. Many immediate intervention strategies, and the staff motivation for these choices, were in conflict with behavioural approaches to challenging behaviour and would be considered counter-habilitative from this perspective. Staff were able to describe appropriate longer-term interventions. These basic findings confirmed those of previous research with institution staff. However, tentative comparisons suggested that community staff were more likely than institution staff (from previous research) to describe interventions involving the building of relationships with service users and the identification of the underlying causes of the behaviours.
v List if Tables xi Chapter I: Introduction 1 Purpose 2 Context 4 Framework 6 Limitations 7 Research Questions 8 Definition of Terms 8 Program Evaluation 9 Significance 10 Summary 10 Chapter II: Literature Review 12 Small Schools 12 Large Urban High Schools 16 SLCs and Teachers 17 Change Theory Driving Small School Structural Reform 18 Personalization 20 Advisory Programs 21 History of Advisory Programs 23 Advisory Purpose 26