Single Case Experimental Designs (SCED) - testing the effect of our inventions

How good are our goals? Understanding SMARTness in a paediatric neuropsychological rehabilitation service

This service evaluation looks more closely at our goal setting. The point being to improve our practice. Some of our senior clinicians used a questionnaire to rate how ‘SMART’ (specific, measureable, achievable, realistic and time limited) each of a sample of 100 clinically and educationally set goals are. The measure seems useful in helping a service learn about their practice e.g. how important ‘specificity’ is when setting a goal. This has led us to want to look further into the goals to see if SMARTness actually leads to goals being more achievable. That’s the next project!

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Pickering Tucker SCED talk:

Single Case Experimental Design: Positive Behaviour Supports intervention for sexualised behaviour

Authors: Pickering, Andrea1; Tucker, Peter1; Limond, Jenny2

Affiliations: Recolo UK Ltd1; University of Exeter UK2

This is our second Single Case Experimental Design (SCED). It is implemented to ask whether it is feasible to collect ‘level 1’ data (highest quality of clinical data) in everyday clinical practice. The client was a teenage male who engaged in inappropriate behaviour. A positive behaviour supports package was delivered systematically across three different settings, home, classroom and boarding house. The SCED design we used is ‘multiple baseline across settings’. We saw positive change in the client’s behaviours and their effects on others that can be more closely attributed to the intervention than if just reported in the normal (non-SCED) way. 

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