NDIS Positive Behaviour Support Sydney
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Positive Behaviour Support Plan Sydney. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a scheme legislated by the Australian Government in the year 2013 and was fully rolled out in 2020. The NDIS provides funding for an individual with a permanent and significant disability and aims to help and improve the quality of life of NDIS participants, their families, and carers.
Positive Behaviour Support is one of the mental health services provided by NDIS and our team as an NDIS qualified service provider. Residents and citizens of Sydney can avail of this support from our staff if they meet the set criteria by the NDIS and should be age 7 to 65 years old. This funding is essential to help and provide the much-needed support for children and adults who are facing challenging and problematic behaviours.
The psychologists at our practices will provide Behaviour Support to NDIS participants, their families, and carers. This support approach is commonly used since a substantial volume of data and evidence has been collected proving that this approach is effective in managing children and adult's challenging and difficult behaviour.
What is a Positive Behaviour Support Plan?
Behaviour Support is a proven and most effective approach that uses dynamic methods to manage and support children and adults who exhibit challenging behaviour that affects their daily lives. A Behaviour Support plan can help children and adult participants to lessen and eventually get rid of challenging and problematic behaviours. This support is intended to address challenging and problematic behaviours and to effectively manage a child or an adult who is experiencing difficulties in learning and adapting.
The objective of this support is to help reduce the challenging behaviours and help the NDIS participants to improve their skills that they need to prevent them from falling back on these problematic behaviours in the future. This support does not only focus on the participant’s behaviour but also on helping them in improving and developing their skills, learning to communicate, managing their emotions among others. Behaviour Support is the partnership with children and adult participants, their families, and carers to help them address the problem caused by their disability and provide the support they need right at their homes or the places they usually spend most of their time.
What is a Positive Behaviour Support Plan?
Most of the time individuals who are experiencing difficulties use their behaviour to communicate and imply that something is wrong with their life. Individuals who exhibit behaviour that can cause potential risk to others, or difficulties to be around them, or exhibiting behaviour that affects their ability to manoeuvre their day-to-day lives require Positive Behaviour Support Plan.
A Behaviour Support Plan is a documented outline of each participant's tailored plan and the steps that will be used to manage the positive behaviour support after the assessment is made on the NDIS participant. To avail of this support plan, an NDIS participant who seeks to get help from mental health professional through the approach must undergo the required assessment to help the mental health professional identify the root cause of the patient's challenging and problematic behaviour. The assessment is essential to help discern what steps need to be taken to help the participant in reducing and eventually eliminating the problematic behaviours they exhibit.
The participant, their families, and their carers will help the mental health professional to gather information about the participants concerning behaviour and stating their way of life. The collected information is about the participant's medical history, communication needs, and likes and dislikes. After thoroughly assessing the participant, the behaviour support plan will be layout and continuous consultation and support will be provided to help the participants, their families, and carers to apply the written method and discern what step will work to improve, reduce and eliminate the participant's problematic behaviour.
How Can Mental Health Professionals Help?
Each NDIS participant has different needs and goals, that’s why each support plan is individually customised based on the participant’s specific needs after the assessment is made. Listed below are some of the objectives of Behaviour Support:
The mental health professional can help the participant’s families and carers to identify the root cause of the problematic behaviour.
The plan does not only focus on the behaviour but also helps to empower the participants in properly communicating their needs.
The layout plan is tailored to each participant’s specific needed approach that provides them the strategies to appropriately express and manage their emotions.
The plan also includes support to help the participant easily adapt to their environment.
The mental health professional can help the participant to reduce their tantrums, aggression, and other turbulent behaviours.
The mental health professional will teach the participants to appropriately replace their problematic behaviours.
The participants will be taught and help them increase their ability in complying and following instructions.
The participants will improve their school performance and attention with the support provided by the mental health professional.
Signs that An Individual Needs Positive Behaviour Support
The best way to help an individual who is suffering from challenging and problematic behaviours is to help them identify the early signs that indicate this behaviour and get the help they need through a behavioural support. The signs are as follows:
Expresses aggression and frustration
Unable to cope up due to experienced trauma
Difficulty in adapting to changes in life
Exhibits behaviour that is uncontrollable and concerning
Conflict and rivalry with siblings
Signs of anxiety and withdrawal
Inability to comply and refuses to attend school
Lacks impulse control
Weak social skills
Weak communication skills
Weak concentration skills
The difficulty of using the toilet
If you exhibit this behaviour or know someone who does and residing in Sydney, you may reach through the team to get the help and support needed. NDIS participants in Sydney under the Capacity Building Budget who wish to avail of the Positive Behaviour Support Plan may contact us on 1300 001 470 or mail them on ndis@positivemoods.com.au.
At Positive Moods, we also offer NDIS Positive Behaviour Support Plans Adelaide.