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- Title
How positive behaviour support can reduce challenging behaviour.
- Authors
Jones, Simon
- Abstract
This article describes the benefits of, and obstacles to, adopting positive behaviour support (PBS) as a philosophy of support in a large organisation that provides supported living and residential care services across the UK. The article highlights how implementing such support has drastically reduced the use of reactive strategies, especially physical interventions, in the organisation, and has significantly improved the quality of life of the people it supports. The article also considers important aspects of PBS, including active support, communication, environments, functional analysis and reactive strategies, and describes how service users and staff teams have responded enthusiastically to its implementation.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; NURSING care facilities; BEHAVIOR therapy; COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL personnel; PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities; HUMAN services programs; PATIENT-centered care; TRANSPORTATION of patients
- Publication
Learning Disability Practice, 2014, Vol 17, Issue 10, p36
- ISSN
1465-8712
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7748/ldp.17.10.36.e1605