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Bohan, C., Smyth, S., & McDowell, C. (Accepted/In press). An evaluation of the caught being good game with an adolescent student population. Journal of Positive behavior Interventions.
Bowring, Totsika, Hastings & Toogood. 2018. Towards data based clinical decision making for adults with challenging behaviour using the Behavior Problems Inventory – Short Form (BPI-S). Tizard Learning Disability Review.
Bowring, Totsika, Hastings & Toogood. 2019. Outcomes from a community‐based Positive Behavioural Support team for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities.
Bowring & Toogood. 2019. The use of ‘Positive Greetings at the Door’ to increase on-task behaviour in a vocational training centre. International Journal of Positive Behavioural Support.
Bowring, Totsika, Hastings & Toogood. 2019. Designing specialist community-based behavioural support teams. International Journal of Positive Behavioural Support.
Bowring, Painter & Hastings. 2019. Prevalence of challenging behaviours in adults with ID, correlates and association with mental health. Current Developmental Disorders.
Branch, A., Hastings, R. P., Beverley, M., & Hughes, J. C. (in press). Increasing support staff fluency with the content of Behaviour Support Plans: An application of Precision Teaching. Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Bronwen E. Davies, Kathy Lowe, Sara Morgan, Hannah John-Evans & Julie Fitoussi (2018): An evaluation of the effectiveness of positive behavioural support within a medium secure mental health forensic service, The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/14789949.2018.1459785
Coulman, E., Hastings, R., Gore, N., Gillespie, D., McNamara, R., Petrou, S., Segrott, J., Bradshaw, J., Hood, K., Jahoda, A., Lindsay, G., Lugg-Widger, F., Robling, F., Shurlock, J., & Totsika, V. (in press). The Early Positive Approaches to Support (E-PAtS) study: study protocol for a feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of a group programme (E-PAtS) for family caregivers of young children with intellectual disability. Feasibility and Pilot Studies.
Denne, L.D., Hastings, R. P., Hughes, J.C. (2017) Common approaches to intervention for the support and education of children with autism in the UK: An internet-based parent survey. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities doi/full/10.1080/20473869.2016.1275439
Denne, L.D., Hastings, R.P., Hughes, J.C. (2017) UK parents’ beliefs about Applied Behaviour Analysis as an approach to autism education. European Journal of Special Needs Education, DOI: 10.1080/08856257.2017.1297568
Grey, J.M. Totsika, V., & Hastings, R.P. (2020). Placement decisions of families co-residing with an adult relative with an intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 45, 167-175. doi: 10.3109/13668250.2019.1608816

Jess, M., Flynn, S., Bailey, T., Hastings, R., & Totsika, V. (in press). Failure to replicate a robust Down Syndrome advantage for maternal well-being. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research.
Jess, M., Bailey, T., Pit-ten, I.M., Totsika, V., & Hastings, R.P. (2020). Measurement invariance of the Positive Gains Scale in families of children with developmental disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 103, pp-pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2020.103662
Langley, E., Totsika, V., Hastings, R.P. (2020). The psychological wellbeing of fathers with and without a child with Intellectual Disability (ID): A population-based study. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 64, 399-413. https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.12692
Lofthouse, R.E., Golding, L., Totsika, V., Hastings, R.H., & Lindsay, W.R. (2020). Predicting aggression in adults with intellectual disability: A pilot study of the predictive efficacy of the Current Risk of Violence and the Short Dynamic Risk Scale. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 33, 702-710. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12665

Markham, V., Giles, A., & May, R. J. (2018). Evaluating efficacy and preference for prompt type during discrete-trial teaching, Behaviour Modification. https://doi.org/10.1177/0145445518792245
MacDonald A. (2019). Positive behavioural support. In P. Baker & T. Osgood (eds), Understanding and Responding to Behaviour that Challenges in Intellectual Disabilities (pp31-40). Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd.
MacDonald, A., McGill, P. & Murphy, G. (2018). An evaluation of staff training in positive behavioural support. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jar.12460?campaign=wolearlyview&
MacDonald, A. (2018). A commentary on: Clinical outcomes of staff training in positive behavioural support to reduce challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual disability: Further thoughts on intervention, implementation and interpretation. International Journal of Positive Behavioural Support, 8 (1) 12-21.

May, R. J., Downs, R., Marchant, A., & Dymond, S. (In Press). Emergent verbal behavior in preschool children learning a second language. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

McDowell, C, Barry, J. & Smyth, S. (2017). Reducing rumination of a child with Autism using post meal tooth brushing. Psychology and Psychological Research International, 2 (3).

McKenzie, K, Mayer, C, Whelan, K, McNall, A, Noone S & Chaplin J (2017). ‘’ The views of carers about Positive Behavioural Support for their family member with an intellectual disability. Health and Social Care in the Community. Early view: doi: 10.1111/hsc.12475

McLennan, K., O’Regan, D., Coleman, S., Bretherton, S., Paul Cooper, P., Hove, M., McWade, P, and Toogood, S. (2017) Providing positive behavioural support services: Quality of life and challenging behaviour outcomes for a sixteen year old with intellectual disability. International Journal of Positive Behavioural Support, 7,2, 24–36 (C)

Murray, C., Hastings, R.P., & Totsika, V. (in press). Clinical utility of the parent-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as a screen for emotional and behavioural difficulties in children and adolescents with Intellectual Disability. British Journal of Psychiatry.
Noone, S P & Chaplin, J (2017) ‘Overcoming the reluctance to adopt the behavioural principles in positive behavioural support: Defining a role for clinical psychologists.’Clinical Psychology Forum, 290.

O'Neill, S., McDowell, C., & Leslie, J. C. (2020). A Comparison of Variations of Prompt Delay During Instruction on an Expressive Labeling Task. Journal of Behavioural Education, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-020-09407-0

Priday, L., Byrne, C., & Totsika, V. (2017). Behavioural interventions for sleep problems in people with an intellectual disability: A systematic review and meta-analysis of single-case and group studies. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 61, 1-15. DOI: 10.1111/jir.12265
Sapiets, S., Totsika, V., & Hastings, R. (in press). Factors influencing access to early intervention for families of children with developmental disabilities: a narrative review. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. DOI: 10.1111/jar.12852
Skelly, L., Smyth, P., Donnelly, MP., Leslie, J. C., Leader, G., Simpson, E., & McDowell, C. (2020). Factors that potentially influence successful weight loss for adults with intellectual disabilities: a qualitative comparison. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744629520931681
Smyth, S, Reading, B. & McDowell, C. (in press). The impact of staff training on special educational needs professionals’ attitudes towards and understanding of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Journal of Intellectual Disabilities.

Stanford, C., Totsika, V., & Hastings, R.P. (2020). ‘Above and Beyond’: The perceptions of mothers of children with autism about ‘good practice’ by professionals and services. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 77, 101615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2020.101615

Storey, C., McDowell, C. & Leslie, J.C. (2017). Evaluating The Efficacy of Headsprout© Reading Program with Children Who Have Spent Time in Care. Behavioral Interventions, 32, pp.285-293.

Tomlinson, S., Gore, N. J., & McGill, P. (in press). Training individuals to implement applied behaviour analytic procedures via telehealth: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Behavioral Education.
Tomlinson, S., McGill, P., Gore, N. J., & Humphreys, J. (2017). Trends in the provision of residential educational placements available for young people with learning disabilities / autism in England. Tizard Learning Disability Review, 22(4), 222-229. doi: 10.1108/TLDR-07-2017-0028

Toogood, S (2017) Positive Behavioural Support and Borderline Personality Disorder. International Journal of Positive Behavioural Support. 7,1, 00-00
Toogood, S. and Leitch, S. (2017) Conference report: The eighth BILD PBS international research and practice conference: Working together to deliver positive behaviour support, Bristol, 3–5 May 2017. International Journal of Positive Behavioural Support, 7,2, 59–60 (D)

Totsika, V. & Jones, R.P. (in press). Changing students’ attitudes to people with intellectual disabilities: Findings from a natural experiment. The Bulletin of the Faculty of People with Intellectual Disabilities.
Totsika, V., Mandair, S., & Lindsay, G. (2017). Comparing the effectiveness of evidence-based parenting programs on families of children with and without special educational needs: short term and long term gains. Frontiers in
Education: Special Educational Needs. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2017.00007

Totsika, V., Hastings, R.P., Dutton, Y., Worsley, A., Melvin, G., Gray, K., Tonge, B., & Heyne, D. (2020). Types and correlates of school non-attendance in students with autism spectrum disorders. Autism, 24, 1639-1649. doi.org/10.1177/1362361320916967
Totsika, V., Hastings, R.P., Emerson, E., & Hatton, C. (2020). Early years parenting mediates early adversity effects on problem behaviors in intellectual disability. Child Development, 91, e649-e664. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13273