NDIS Behaviour Support Darwin
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At times, someone with a disability (whether psychosocial, physical, as a result of an ABI or any combination of these) may exhibit behaviours that are upsetting to their families, friends, or support staff. This behaviour can inflict physical or emotional damage on themselves and/or others or hinder their ability to fully participate in the group. These are sometimes referred to as “behaviours of concern”.
Positive Moods can provide individualised behavioural support intervention that can be availed by citizens and residents in Darwin. The Positive Behaviour Support Plan (PBSP) is tailored to the individual's needs while also developing pro-social behaviour and improving quality of life. The NDIS-accredited behaviour support practitioner collaborates directly with the participant and their team to offer resources to create behaviour support programs designed to, where possible, reduce these behaviours over time.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Rules 2018 state that a specialist behaviour support provider must use an NDIS Behaviour Management Consultant as a condition of registration. An NDIS Behaviour Support Specialist is someone who the NDIS Commission has determined is qualified to provide behaviour support evaluations such as functional behavioural assessments and implement techniques directly designed to address the behaviours of concern identified.
How is Behaviour Support different from Therapy?
Behaviour Support aims to assist the support team of the participant rather than the participant directly – caregivers, family members, support staff - to identify the behaviours and provide a consistent approach to behaviour improvement in the form of a written Positive Behaviour Support Plan and subsequent training plan. Therapy under Improved Daily Living is usually delivered as regularly scheduled one-on-one sessions with a practitioner and doesn’t require a PBSP to be completed.
What is a Positive Behaviour Support Plan (PBSP)?
The Positive Behaviour Support Plan is a written guide created by Positive Moods’ Behaviour Practitioners, in collaboration with the participant, their families and their other support networks. It is a “How To” care guide that offers techniques and strategies for the support team of a person exhibiting concerning behaviours to use uniformly and consistently to manage and/or reduce these problematic behaviours.
The Behaviour Support Plans are the result of observations, reviews of reports and collaboration with caregivers, support staff and families. Positive Moods has also taken what works and ensures that all aspects of behaviour support best practices are present. The organisation achieves success by applying a person-centered approach with the involvement of the participant’s support team.
How does Positive Moods’ Behaviour Support Program work?
The NDIS Behaviour Support program is about finding the most effective way to address inappropriate or difficult behaviour exhibited by a participant and develop a tailored training program to manage and/or reduce these behaviours.
The first step is to fill out an onboarding form and include all necessary details to help with service commencement. To recognise a person’s disability, health, practical and situational matters, Positive Moods practitioners must collect and review relevant context reports, interview the key stakeholders and observe the participant to see how these behaviours present in real time.
What is included in our Behaviour Support Process?
Behaviour Assessment – Refers to any action that has a function or a purpose. Positive Moods experts will investigate the causes and devise the necessary plan of action.
Behaviour Support Plans – Practitioners will create easy, step-by-step strategies and techniques that instruct families and support services on administering constructive behaviour support. This training will be monitored and adjusted as needed.
What Makes Behaviour Support Successful?
Behaviour Support is more than handling problem behaviour; it is also about learning to connect, build skills required for independence and learning self-control or emotion management. Positive Behaviour Support helps to minimise challenging behaviours by assisting the participant and their support team to regulate the behaviours of concern.
Positive Moods agrees that everyone needs care and access to the opportunities that can help give them a better quality of life on a daily basis and welcome any referral for the purpose of creating a PBSP.
Positive Moods has a team of behavioural experts that can evaluate, develop and build individualised behaviour support strategies, execute routine meetings and ensure that the plan is implemented smoothly. Positive Moods is a forward-thinking organisation that understands that no two plans will be the same and will adapt accordingly. The organisation also specialises in a person-centred approach by looking beyond the behaviour of the individual and providing the participant and the family and support team with the comprehensive assistance they need.
What is a Restrictive Practice?
A Restrictive Practice is used to regulate or monitor the behaviour of another person. These procedures are sometimes necessary to ensure the protection of the client, as well as those who are around them. There are basic standards for determining the need for a restrictive approach. Activities should be recorded and reported to the Quality and Safeguard Commission and New South Wales (NSW) Family and Community Services.
The Behaviour Consultants of Positive Moods are NDIS-accredited and can create behaviour support programs with stringent procedures, if necessary. They have good knowledge of what it takes to make a Behaviour Support Plan that includes interdisciplinary measures.
There are five types of restrictive practice:
1. Seclusion
2. Chemical restraint
3. Mechanical restraint
4. Physical restraint
5. Environmental restraint
The assessment of the client plays a vital role in determining which of these practises will be implemented based on the individual needs of the client and how the client’s support system can provide care based on the identified needs.
With the behaviour support plan, clients can begin the path to more significant social interaction, freedom, and improved habits. Contact Positive Moods and gain access to tools that can vastly improve the quality of life of people with disabilities.
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At Positive Moods, we also offer Positive Behaviour Support Plan NDIS Ipswich.