Mindful Innovative Action is a Registered NDIS Provider
We offer client specific Specialist Behaviour Support services across Victoria.
Our Behaviour Support Practitioners have a range of clinical backgrounds, and have completed additional training in behaviour analysis and the management of complex behaviours.
We draw on a range of professional specialist skills to create individualised behaviour management plans that meet the needs of both clients, and the support team as well as NDIS legislative requirements.
Service include:
Functional behavioural assessment
Interim and comprehensive behaviour support plans
NDIS assessments and quotes to support plan reviews and funding needs
Development of behavioural support plans
Training of support team in positive behavioural support techniques.
What is positive behaviour support?
All behaviours are a form of communication, but the message is sometimes difficult to understand.
People who have difficulty communicating or understanding their responses to situations can sometimes develop ways of coping and trying to get their needs met. In the worst case this can lead to injury to themselves or others. Sometimes these behaviours can also be socially intrusive or unacceptable and reduce people’s ability to participate in social activities. These behaviours are commonly called challenging behaviours or behaviours of protest and they can lead to social disengagement or inappropriate use of restraints or punishments to try and resolve the behaviours.
Positive Behaviour Support is a framework that is based on adopting a purely ‘positive’ approach towards supporting people who are using challenging behaviours to communicate. We do not use or endorse any sort of punitive or punishment based approaches to the management of challenging behaviour.
We start by analysing the behaviour, so we can start to understand what the person is trying to communicate. Then identify possible skills development based, or environmental strategies that can be used to assist individuals to develop more socially acceptable ways of communicating their needs, wants and thoughts.
At Mindful Innovative Action we use a person centred, trauma informed framework, which means that we place the person at the centre of our practice. Working with individuals, the people who are important to them and their support team to develop plans, training and responses that meet the individual needs of the client.
Resources
The area of behavioural analysis and management can be complex and as with all professional domain we have our own special language to discuss and describe different concepts and ideas. This can be super confusing if you are trying to learn about positive behaviour support and how to use some of the techniques in your life.
We have pulled together a list of useful resources to help out.
Explaining Positive Behaviour Support
What is PBS?
This is a great video from the Centre for the Advancement of Positive Behaviour Support explaining what Positive Behaviour Support is and how it helps.
What is a PBS Plan?
This video by the Callan Institute explains how Behaviour Support Practitioners develop a positive behaviour support plan and all the different types of information that they use to develop these plans.
What are restrictive practices?
Restrictive practices are those practices or interventions that restrict a persons rights or freedom of movement. It is especially important to monitor and review restrictive practices to ensure that that least restrictive interventions are used and minimise the impact of a persons quality of life.
In Australia the NDIS recognised five different types of restrictions these are; mechanical, environmental, physical, chemical and seclusion. The Aged Care Commission recognises two types of restraints being chemical and physical restraint.
The NDS (National Disability Service) have created some fantastic training video about restrictive practices, you can access then here
NDS has also created an great interactive PDF that you can also download
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