Functions of Behaviour
Behaviours that result in getting attention or being left alone
What is attention?
a Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plan?
what is a set of support strategies that work to facilitate meaningful lifestyle changes through the application of ecological changes, positive programming, focused support, and reactive strategies.
Having an illness, infection or allergies
what are physiological or biological setting events?
Showing a person what to do by performing the action, while they observe
What is modelling?
The right to take risks when engaging in life experiences, and the right to fail in taking these.
What is Dignity of Risk?
Behaviours that give stimulation or that reduce overstimulation for the person.
What is Sensory Stimulation?
True or False:
A CBSP is about stopping or changing challenging behaviour
False:
it is about providing the appropriate support to the person.
CBS is designed to:
• Change the behaviour or its effects.
• Assist the person to develop a lifestyle they want to lead.
• Teach support staff to remove the things that might trigger the challenging behaviour.
• Teach support staff to respond to challenging behaviour in ways that help people feel safe and respect their right to choose.
What the behaviour looks like, sounds like or smells like
what is the topography of a behaviour?
Teaching complex skills through a phased approach with positive reinforcement
What is Shaping?
Participants shall be provided with the support they need to make decisions.
What is Supported Decision-Making Policy?
Behaviours that result in getting an activity or task or ending an activity or task.
What is Activities / Tasks?
Completing a Functional Assessment is the cornerstone of
What is Positive Behaviour Support?
Events that occur prior to the behaviour and "set the stage" for the behaviour to happen
What are setting events?
Using rewards to motivate someone to repeat an activity, skill, or desired behaviour
What is reinforcement?
documenting the dangerous or harmful behaviour and submitting it within 24 hours. This will initiate an assessment process to determine the most appropriate response.
what is an incident report?
Behaviours that result in getting or avoiding things.
What is Tangibles?
Name one of the three areas to consider when going through the process of behaviour assessment:
1) Lifestyle Preferences - this is done together with the person to determine how they want to live, and considers a number of features of their environment.
2) Clinical Issues – includes looking at any possible medical reasons that the person could be experiencing, that may be impacting them.
3) Functional Assessment - the process of figuring out why a person is engaging in challenging behaviour and what they are attempting to communicate with their behaviour.
Could include the expectations of others, as people often behave according to how others expect them to act
What are interpersonal features?
are meant to to change factors in a person’s environment to help reduce the likelihood of the behaviour occurring.
What are Ecological Strategies?
An act or omission that causes a participant to experience physical, emotional, or sexual harm, loss of individual rights, or the misuse of their personal property shall be prohibited.
What is Abuse of Core Members Policy?
The way that a person behaves in a particular situation or under particular conditions
What is Behaviour?
The presence of ongoing, dangerous or harmful behaviour may warrant the development of this
What is a Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plan?
How serious or dangerous a behaviour is
What is episodic severity?
Teaching the steps for a task in a sequential order, where each step is considered a link, which when put together forms a chain
What is chaining?
doing something that is perceived to be physically or psychologically painful.
What is aversive?