Professional development in nonaversive intervention strategies: Bridging the divide between the academic institution and the workplace Professional development in nonaversive intervention strategies: Bridging the divide between the academic institution and the workplace (original) (raw)

Abstract

This paper describes a programme designed to teach the principles of nonaversive behavioural intervention to course members undertaking a degree programme within a tertiary institution. The students who were also in full time employment were invited to bring a colleague from their workplace to participate in a professional development programme. Course members worked in both human service and educational settings. As a "seeding pair", the student and colleague returned to their workplace to set up a team to implement a behavioural intervention for a focus person who displayed challenging behaviour. Post intervention interview data were collected from students and colleagues as well as from third party participants independent of the implementation of the intervention. Where appropriate, interview responses were verified through document analysis. The findings indicated that staff had adopted a new approach to behavioural intervention, which was built on an understanding of...

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