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Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is a person-centred approach used to understand and improve challenging behaviours. It aims to enhance quality of life for the individual by focusing on prevention, teaching new skills, and modifying environments, rather than using punishment or control.

At Ashtons Place our Positive Behaviour Support team recognises and understands that all behaviour has a function.  Each child undergoes a detailed assessment process, that ensures all support recommendations, tools and strategies are individualised according to each individual’s developmental profile.

An effective behaviour plan looks at the individual and all of their supports. Our therapists will walk you step by step through the process of developing a Positive Behaviour Support Plan.

Our team will use a range of assessments to help determine the function of a behaviour, then they will individualise the support plan specifically to each behaviour. This process may include:

Key principles of PBS

  • Detailed assessment including assessment of current functional capacity, communication, and sensory processing
  • Analysis and break down of challenging behaviours
  • Determining appropriate short-term and long-term goals to target skill development in relation to behavioural and emotional development
  • Recommending positive, clear, consistent and individualised strategies to respond to challenging behaviours
  • Individualising recommended supports to ensure a holistic approach is taken, across all of the environments your child participates in (e.g. home, community, kindergarten)
  • Training of your child’s support team to implement evidence based strategies, in response to unpreferred behaviours and to promote desired behaviours
  • Recommending positive reinforcement to increase desired behaviours and promote skill development
  • Supporting the development of children’s emotional regulation skills and their ability to understand emotions
  • Engaging parents or other key care givers in capacity building through education, problem solving and coaching
  • Reviewing the effectiveness of recommendations, and modifying as required.

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