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Evaluation of an E.D.Y. Training Course in Behavioural Techniques for Staff Working with Severely Mentally Handicapped Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Judith A. McBrien  and
Marie Edmonds
Judith A. McBrien
Affiliation:
Plymouth Health Authority/Plymouth Polytechnic
Marie Edmonds
Affiliation:
Calderdale Education Authority, Halifax
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Methods of evaluating training courses in behaviour modification for staff working in mental handicap are briefly reviewed. Insufficient attention seems to have been paid to changes in staff behaviour following training. A widely used training package—the E.D.Y. Course—was investigated using a non-equivalent control group design. Four special school teachers were given E.D.Y. training and compared with four control teachers pretraining, post-training and at a fourteen month follow-up. Results indicated that experimental teachers changed their behaviour following training in the expected direction and maintained this change at follow-up. Control group teachers showed no behavioural change from occasion to occasion and scored significantly lower than the experimental group on the dependent variable on each occasion. The results are discussed in terms of the effectiveness of the package and the maintenance and generalization of skills.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 1985 , pp. 202 - 217
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1985

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