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What is Positive Behaviour Support?
Positive 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 Support focuses on evidence-based strategies and person-centred supports that address the needs of the person with disability and the underlying causes of behaviours of concern, while safeguarding the dignity and quality of life of people with disability who require specialist behaviour support - NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
"Each plan is a collaboration ... a careful co-creation between participant and practitioner"
We work on reducing challenging behaviour by addressing clients underlying core needs.
Our Positive Behaviour Support services focus on the reduction and elimination of restrictive practices, so clients can reconnect with their values, achieve their goals, unlock their potential, and live more rich, meaningful, and fulfilling lives.
Our thorough services include:
- A comprehensive assessment in the persons own environment
- The completion of functional behavioural assessments
- Team and individual training and support
- The development of interim and comprehensive behaviour support plans
- A letter of recommendation to the NDIS
Tanner Psychology will also complete the required NDIS Quality and Safeguard Commission portal work to ensure appropriate oversight of restrictive practices, whilst we safely fade them from use.
In combination with positive behaviour support services, we can deliver both therapeutic supports and skill building for both children and adults.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
STEP 1
STEP 1
STEP 1
- Send us a message and request a Referral Form.
- Complete our Online Referral Form. This will take approximately 15-20 minutes and we will email this to you.
- Read and sign the Service Agreement. We will send this to you once we have received your completed Referral Form. This can also be completed online.
- Provide us with relevant documentation and kindly complete our functional assessment interview form.
We will then conduct initial interviews with you, and/or relevant others, collect and collate relevant documentation, commence direct and/or indirect behavioural observations, and collect behavioural data.
STEP 2
STEP 1
STEP 1
- In collaboration with you, and your entire support team, we develop a draft Interim Behaviour Support Plan . If the plan includes Restrictive Practices, then we will submit the plan to the NDIS Commission on your behalf.
This process typically takes us 10-25 hours.
If this exhausts your current NDIS funding, we will provide a letter to the NDIA to help fund the remaining steps.
STEP 3
STEP 4
STEP 4
- Your practitioner will provide you, and your entire support team with training in the Behavioural Support Plan. From there, we will consider your feedback, and amend the Behaviour Support Plan as required.
If you have 35 or more NDIS hours, we provide a Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plan.
STEP 4
STEP 4
STEP 4
- At the closure of our service, we will provide a letter of recommendation to the NDIA to ensure continuity of care.
Lastly, your progress towards your goals will be measured and delivered to the NDIA in a comprehensive report.
The NDIS may provide Behavioural Support for participants presently living with a disability. If you have an NDIS Plan with either Improved Relationships or Independent Daily Living in your Capacity Building budget, we can help.
We work with Self Managed, Plan Managed, and NDIA Managed participants.