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5th international foster care conference: 'love is not enough' 26th July- 1st August 1987: conference papers
- Editor:
- CROSBY Ian
- Publisher:
- Leeds. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 302p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
A collection of conference papers on various aspects of foster care - child abuse, training, leaving care, mentally handicapped children, adult foster care, violence, recruitment of foster parents, long-term foster care.
Promoting social scaffolding behaviors in staff members and peer‐directed behaviors among persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities: an intervention study
- Authors:
- NIJS Sara, VLASKAMP Carla, MAES Bea
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 15(2), 2018, pp.124-135.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) present limited peer‐directed behaviours toward their peers with PIMD. It is not clear how staff can facilitate and promote the mutual peer‐directed behaviours between persons with PIMD. The study explores if peer‐directed behaviours among persons with PIMD can be increased by an intervention that is focused on training the staff in providing social scaffolding behaviours toward their clients. An A‐B‐B′‐C design was used in this study. A baseline condition was followed by two intervention conditions and a follow‐up. Four staff members participated in a training in which they were informed about peer interactions in persons with PIMD and learned how to promote these interactions. They developed a peer interaction supportive activity. This activity was provided to two persons with PIMD for 10 weeks. Social scaffolding behaviours of staff as well as peer‐directed behaviours of persons with PIMD were coded during videotaped observations. A significant increase of social scaffolding behaviours of staff members was observed during the intervention with a significant decrease at follow‐up. Significantly, more singular and fewer multiple peer‐directed behaviours of persons with PIMD were observed during the intervention. Both singular and multiple peer‐directed behaviours decreased again at follow‐up. A short training of staff members already positively affects their social scaffolding behaviours and increases the amount of peer‐directed behaviours of persons with PIMD. However, the amount of both behaviours decreased again at follow‐up. This argues to broadly apply this training in services and schools for persons with PIMD and to complement it with continuing staff coaching on this topic. (Edited publisher abstract)