[Belgium, first session May 4-6, 2020] Support for the homework

Welcome to the Belgian team!
The new topic of the forum “Support for the homework” is designed to provide the teachers an individualized support to define, together, the next steps for implementing the case study inside the Behave application.
This with the aim to arrive in Belgium for the next and last training course well equipped and trained.
In particular, this path will be supervised and monitored by me and my colleague Federica Compagno, because both of us are psychologists specialized in cognitive-behavioural therapy and consequently in charge to support you during the important phases of data collection (selection of the more suitable measure to adopt) and definition of the intervention plan that will be carried out with the support of the BEHAVE application.
During this first step we ask you to:
Identify ONE student (case) that in your shared opinion needs intervention - as soon as possible - because his/her behaviour is highly frequent, intense and has had a long duration in the last months.
Describe using this topic, in an operational way the case, following the structure of the case data suggested in the Behave app:

Student id
Sex
Year of birth
Behaviour to be observed
Description
Place
Setting

The DEADLINE to complete this first step is March 10, 2020

Keep in touch!
Antonella Chifari

Name: Theodore
Sex: Male
Year of Birth: 2013
Behavior: Disturbing other students.
Description: Talking to others, making contact to others, asking questions to others, going in interaction with others.
Place: Classroom
Setting: During the independent work.

Thank you for your answer, in time with the deadline.
I and Federica Wednesday will meet together to examine all cases and support you in the next steps.
An information please: in your country schools are closed for the Covid emergency?

Best wishes from Italy,
Antonella

Dear Belgian team,
first of all congratulations because you have identified correctly the behaviors and used a properly operational definition of them.
Talking to others, getting in touch with others, asking questions to others, interacting with others are the behaviors that you have to measure and that can be considered with the same general label "off task behaviors" (verbal, motor or passive) during independent work. You could work on the general category by marking "yes" to the extent each time one of the specific behaviors occurs.
You could start doing the baseline measurement with a direct observation. We suggest you to chose a frequency measurement, we need to have at least 4 observations per behavior. We suggest you to make 30-minute observations in total, with 5-minute intervals, using the partial interval methodology. If you have difficulty in setting the measurements on the app we are at your disposal to give the necessary support.
Besides, also in this case it is important to identify what triggers the problem behavior and what reactions mantein it during the time. All this is a necessary condition for understanding how to intervene. Functional analysis means doing ABCs of behavior, it would be important to have at least 4 ABCs.

Look forward to hearing from you!
Antonella e Federica

At this moment our schools are closed due to the outbreak of Corona.
We have to put the task on hold for the moment.