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Supporting Positive Behaviour in Intellectual Disabilities and Autism (2019)
This highly practical book is an accessible and grounded handbook for addressing challenging behaviour in children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD), including autism. It recognises that challenging behaviour does not appear out of nowhere and is meaningful for the person exhibiting it. Behaviour can be communicative and an important signifier of underlying sensory or environmental issues. Focusing on a person-centred approach throughout, the book has advice and strategies for working with the client's families, support staff and professionals. It also presents best practice for analysing and addressing challenging behaviour in various settings such as schools, hospitals and the home, all while stressing the need to keep the human story at the heart of any assessment and intervention. Each chapter features questions for discussion or reflection and exercises for the reader to complete. Informal, frank and free of jargon, this is indispensable for professionals, parents, and anyone working with people with intellectual disability or autism.
Books
Disability support worker (2020)
The third edition of The Disability Support Worker will differentiate from the competition as a comprehensive standalone Certificate IV resource. It will cover all 11 core units and 5 of the most highly subscribed electives. The level of the content will be repositioned through reflective pedagogy to require students to think about their own practice and consider themselves as professionals in the field, preparing them for their more senior and supervisory roles in the workplace.
Working with People with Learning Disabilities (2019)
This multi-disciplinary textbook provides a comprehensive guide for anyone working with people with learning disabilities. It considers how we can engage with people with learning disabilities and their networks of relationships. Throughout, the book demonstrates how theory can be applied to practice with a wide range of contemporary examples.Each chapter is written by a key clinician or writer in this area, incorporating the disciplines of nursing, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy. The chapters also include summaries, reflective questions and explanations of key terms to reinforce themes and topics. The authors provide practical ideas for applying theory across agency contexts including inpatient hospital settings and explore the potential opportunities and future directions for the field.This is a must-read book for students who work with people with learning disabilities including nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, psychiatrists and social workers.
eJournals
Learning Disability Practice
Provides the latest clinical research, research studies, comment & advice from independent experts, the latest news, study aids & events.
Mental Health Practice
Acts as a forum for all healthcare professionals working in the mental health & patient care sub-fields.
YouTube Videos
An Introduction to PBS (2015)
An Introduction to PBS is a short animation - just six minutes long – that gives an overview of PBS and how PBS approaches work in practice when supporting an individual.
This animation was created by a small group of academics and researchers, practitioners and parents, trainers and facilitators and people with a learning disability who are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives.
Positive Behaviour Support (2017)
In line with the latest research and evidence, scosa's Senior Developmental Educator is a multi-disciplinary disability specialist who can provide positive behavioural support programs and teach functional life skills to reduce behaviours of concern.
The developmental educator can develop and teach new skills, promote independency enabling increased engagement in the community, and facilitate participation in a range of fun and engaging activities.
Positive Behaviour Support - Promoting Person Centred Support & Positive Outcomes (2019)
This ground breaking training DVD illustrates the most effective methods of delivering person centred support.
Websites
Association for Positive Behavior Support
The mission of APBS is to enhance the quality of life of people, across the life-span, by promoting evidence-based and effective positive behavior support to realize socially valid and equitable outcomes for people, families, schools, agencies, and communities.
Benefits of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) (2024)
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is an approach to behaviour management that revolves around a set of core principles aimed at fostering positive and adaptive behaviours while minimising the occurrence of challenging ones.
The first key principle involves understanding the individual's unique needs, preferences, and strengths, emphasising a person-centred approach. By recognising the holistic nature of behaviour, PBS acknowledges the influence of various factors such as environmental, social, and personal elements on an individual's actions.
Communication and Behaviour Support for Nurses - Practice Package
This package has been designed to provide information on the Communication and Behaviour Support for Nurses that guides nurses when working with people with disability in order to promote consistent and efficient best practice
Key messages of PBS (UK)
Children, young people and adults have the right to support and services that create capable environments. These should be developed on the principles of Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) and other evidence-based approaches. They should also draw from additional specialist input as needed to respond to all the needs of the individual.
NDIS Behaviour Support
Behaviour support is about creating individualised strategies for people with disability that are responsive to the person’s needs, in a way that reduces and eliminates the need for the use of regulated restrictive practices.
Positive Behaviour Intervention and Support
Many kids struggle with behavior in school. When schools react only with punishment, students don’t learn the skills they need to improve. That’s where positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) comes in.
Positive Behaviour Support : Autism Therapy
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is an individualised and comprehensive approach that parents and carers use to teach and encourage children to behave in appropriate ways.
The approach makes difficult behaviour unnecessary by removing the things that trigger, encourage or reward that behaviour. It also teaches children alternative and more appropriate behaviour to replace the difficult behaviour.
Positive Classroom Behavior Support (2020)
A recorded webinar identifying critical practices of classroom behaviour support, key professional development support for staff, and how to create an action plan for school-wide classroom management. This webinar was given to School Climate Transformation Grant recipients originally.
Understanding People : Positive Behaviour Support
Understanding who people are, is the single key to not only understanding the possible 'why' someone might be behaving in certain ways, but it can also ensure that people are seen in a very human context. We all may not react well to some things at some time. Working out what to do, when someone is feeling and communicating using their behaviour, to help them, and the people around them be calm, and feel safe is important
Supporting Positive Behaviour in Intellectual Disabilities and Autism (2019)
This highly practical book is an accessible and grounded handbook for addressing challenging behaviour in children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD), including autism. It recognises that challenging behaviour does not appear out of nowhere and is meaningful for the person exhibiting it. Behaviour can be communicative and an important signifier of underlying sensory or environmental issues. Focusing on a person-centred approach throughout, the book has advice and strategies for working with the client's families, support staff and professionals. It also presents best practice for analysing and addressing challenging behaviour in various settings such as schools, hospitals and the home, all while stressing the need to keep the human story at the heart of any assessment and intervention. Each chapter features questions for discussion or reflection and exercises for the reader to complete. Informal, frank and free of jargon, this is indispensable for professionals, parents, and anyone working with people with intellectual disability or autism.
Disability support worker (2020)
The third edition of The Disability Support Worker will differentiate from the competition as a comprehensive standalone Certificate IV resource. It will cover all 11 core units and 5 of the most highly subscribed electives. The level of the content will be repositioned through reflective pedagogy to require students to think about their own practice and consider themselves as professionals in the field, preparing them for their more senior and supervisory roles in the workplace.
Working with People with Learning Disabilities (2019)
This multi-disciplinary textbook provides a comprehensive guide for anyone working with people with learning disabilities. It considers how we can engage with people with learning disabilities and their networks of relationships. Throughout, the book demonstrates how theory can be applied to practice with a wide range of contemporary examples.Each chapter is written by a key clinician or writer in this area, incorporating the disciplines of nursing, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy. The chapters also include summaries, reflective questions and explanations of key terms to reinforce themes and topics. The authors provide practical ideas for applying theory across agency contexts including inpatient hospital settings and explore the potential opportunities and future directions for the field.This is a must-read book for students who work with people with learning disabilities including nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, psychiatrists and social workers.