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What is Multi-element Behavioural Support?
Recent years
have seen dramatic changes in the ways we live and work with
people who have severe challenging behaviours.
The focus has moved away from restrictive environments to
community integration and the development of positive training
programmes
to support people in mainstream settings.
Multi-element Behaviour Support plans are non-aversive.
They involve changes to the environment to achieve a better fit
with
the needs and the characteristics of the person. They teach the
social and communication skills necessary to overcome challenging
behaviours. Behaviour Support Plans also include strategies for
generating rapid short-term change for behaviours that are difficult
or potentially dangerous. And there are effective reactive strategies,
which are used to manage crises without compromising the safety
or the dignity of all concerned. Finally, Behaviour Support Plans
address the need to establish supervisory systems to sustain
the achievements gained.
Course Outline
Multi-element Behaviour Support is a longitudinal course designed
to provide staff with a rich range of practical ideas and methods
for promoting and sustaining behaviour change. The following
topics are addressed:
- Disability and Identity
- A rationale for non-aversive techniques
- Behavioural Assessment
- Motivational Assessment
- Mediating Systems
- Functional Analysis
- Adapting the Environment
- Skills teaching
- Systematic Instruction
- Direct Interventions
- Emergency Management
- Reactive Strategies
- Maintaining Behaviour Change
This course is an intensive, hands-on training experience and
is accredited by the Dublin Institute of Technology. Training
activities include supervised practical assignments, reading
and writing assignments, feedback sessions, lecturers, and practice
exercises.
Who should attend?
This advanced competency-based
training course is suitable for frontline, supervisory and resource
staff who live or work with
people with challenging behaviour. Previous participants have
worked in services for people who have learning disabilities
or psychiatric needs, as well as child guidance services and services
for older people. Each participant
conducts a comprehensive behavioural assessment with one person
who presents with severe challenging behaviour and implements
a multi-element intervention plan with that person. Supervision
and feedback is provided on this work throughout the training.
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