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Cayleigh Dunworth; Dearbhaile Mahon; Jenny McSharry; Jennifer Holloway; Helena Lydon – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
In Ireland, the provision of behavior support services has developed following the introduction of Health Information and Quality Authority (2013) standards and the regulation of Positive Behavior Support (PBS) under the Health Act (2007). The purpose of this study was to explore what factors facilitate and act as barriers to implementation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Positive Behavior Supports, Barriers, Counselor Attitudes
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Bohan, Clare; McDowell, Claire; Smyth, Sinéad – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2022
This study evaluated use of the Caught Being Good Game (CBGG) across two adolescent student populations, maintaining a focus on the provision of feedback during the game. The CBGG, a variation of the group contingency intervention the Good Behavior Game (GBG), is a classroom management intervention that involves the provision of points to teams of…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Contingency Management, Intervention
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Davey, Nicole; Egan, Margaret – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2021
The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (IYTCM) programme aims to equip teachers with the strategies and skills necessary to promote socio-emotional child development. In Ireland, educational psychologists from the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) are involved in the delivery of the IYTCM programme training to primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Techniques, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education
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Dearbhaile Mahon; Ciara Gunning; Jennifer Holloway; Helena Lydon – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2020
Preschool is an important educational setting for child development, and problem behavior is a prevalent barrier within this setting. Preschool teachers have expressed the need for evidence-based classroom management interventions to address problem behavior. Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) is an intervention that…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Positive Behavior Supports
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Grey, Ian; Lydon, Helena; Healy, Olive – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2016
Positive behaviour support (PBS) has become well established as an intervention approach for individuals with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour. However, what remains unexplored is the relationship between PBS and the medical and social models of disability, which historically are the dominant conceptual frameworks put forward in…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Models, Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries
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Grey, Ian; Mesbur, Maryann; Lydon, Helena; Healy, Olive; Thomas, Justin – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
This study employs a multiple baseline across individual design to describe the implementation of positive behavioural supports for seven children and adolescents in residential community settings over a period of 24 months. These individuals with intellectual disability are residing in one county with long-standing challenging behaviour resulting…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Children, Adolescents, Residential Institutions