Positive Behaviour Support Plan Townsville
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The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a nationwide scheme developed by the Australian Government to give services and support to Australians living with significant and permanent disabilities. One of the support that NDIS provides, through its registered providers, is the Positive Behaviour Support Plan. The Positive Behaviour Support Plan can be administered to NDIS participants showing problematic and undesirable behaviours.
The NDIS provides support to Australians with disabilities in all of its states and territories. As one of the qualified mental health providers accredited by the NDIS, Positive Moods has delivered its psychological services and mental health support to many parts of Australia, including the city of Townsville in Queensland. Positive Moods can develop a Positive Behaviour Support Plan for the NDIS Participants in Townsville.
The NDIS has provided necessary and reasonable services to the people with permanent and significant disabilities in the city of Townsville and Queensland as a whole. The most recent data shows that over 83,000 people with disabilities have benefitted from the NDIS with over 42,000 people saying it’s their first time to get such support.
Positive Moods is qualified and ready to help its clients in Townville, Queensland to develop and follow their own Positive Behaviour Support Plan.
What is a Positive Behaviour Support Plan?
A Positive Behaviour Support Plan is a plan of action and goals that incorporate positive behaviour support throughout all aspects of the plan. Positive Behaviour Support is a form of applied behaviour analysis, an empirical technique used to influence and change people’s behaviours.
Using a Positive Behaviour Support Plan (PBSP) to address a client’s problematic behaviour that can be dangerous, inappropriate, or unproductive shows significant results in decreasing the occurrence of said behaviours and eventually eliminating them. PBSP is an individualised plan that is modified to address a client’s unique behaviour.
In the development of the technique of positive behaviour support, it is believed that each undesirable behaviour that a client displays all have its unique function for the client. Tantrums, crying, or being violent, for example, may lead to the client getting attention, objects, or other desirable rewards, thus enforcing the occurrence of their undesirable behaviours.
Using PBSP, mental health professionals can observe the client, identify their undesirable behaviours, spot the behaviour’s function, and devise a plan and strategies on how to replace the undesirable behaviour with more desirable and productive ones. This will eventually help the client increase their quality of life, integrate into their community, and become a more productive person.
Steps to follow using Positive Behaviour Support Plan
Devising and implementing a Positive Behaviour Support Plan through empirical means requires a multi-step process. The PBSP uses evidence-based data gathering techniques by mental health professionals to benefit the client and their family members. Each PBSP is tailored to individual clients with different behavioural needs and goals. It is the responsibility of the mental health professional to create an appropriate positive behaviour support plan that would best meet the individual needs and goals of the client.
Here are the steps on developing and implementing a Positive Behaviour Support Plan:
Determine the problem behaviours of the client. These are the undesirable behaviours that a client exhibits that should be eliminated and replaced with more desirable ones.
Identify the problematic actions’ functions in the client’s life. Mental health professionals must use empirical data gathering to determine the causes, functions, and consequences of the client’s undesirable behaviours.
Mental health professionals will handpick or develop strategies and actions and outline them in the plan. The plan contains explicit courses of action that will proactively prevent the client’s undesirable behaviours. The PBSP will also include the skills or strategies to be taught to the client to replace their undesirable behaviours with more productive ones. This will help eventually eliminate the undesirable behaviours.
Implement the customised PBSP across different environments and people consistently.
As the PBSP is being implemented to the client and their family, mental health professionals will continuously evaluate and monitor the results yielded from the process through empirical data collection and analysis. This is the time where the mental health professional determines which strategies work for the client and which ones do not. Using these findings, the PBSP can be adjusted to best suit the client’s progress or lack thereof until the undesirable behaviours are eliminated.
Who can best use a Positive Behaviour Support Plan?
Anyone can make use of the fundamental aspects of a Positive Behaviour Support Plan. NDIS participants in Townsville can include a Positive Behaviour Support Plan from a registered NDIS provider like Positive Moods in their NDIS Plan.
The Positive Behaviour Support Plan is typically used in the school setting on problematic students. Under the NDIS setting, it is best used for clients, both adults and children, living with cognitive, behavioural, or developmental dysfunctions. The Positive Behaviour Support Plan is the go-to technique by mental health professionals to help adults and children with autism or other developmental disorders.
Of course, the younger the client receives and consistently follows their individualised PBSP, the faster they can potentially develop more productive behaviours and skills and eliminate their undesirable behaviours.
How to Ensure the Success of a Positive Behaviour Support Plan?
Administering a Positive Behaviour Support Plan requires commitment and consistency on the part of the client, family members, and the people around who are constantly around. The most important part of following a PBSP to ensure its success is consistency in different environments and with different people.
To ensure the success of a PBSP, the people who are constantly around the client are encouraged to administer what exactly is on the plan. Should there be any upgrades or downgrades in the plan, the people who will administer these strategies shall follow what is explicitly stated on the PBSP.
Positive Moods is one of the few NDIS Registered Providers in Townsville that can offer customised Positive Behaviour Support Plans for the NDIS Participants in Townville. Positive Moods also offers other mental health services to its clients using individualised evidence-based techniques in consideration of the unique needs and goals of its clients.
At Positive Moods, we also offer NDIS Positive Behaviour Support Plans.