documents to have as a person with a disability positive behavior support plans
So these are very controversial documents in that if you don’t have all the support workers on the same page it can be very difficult for people to stick to them and unethical support workers will use them against some people but when used properly are very effective in reducing unwanted behaviours through a variety of means and this is where restrictions come into play as they need to be used in conjunction with other things such as therapy and they can only be implemented by a positive behaviour support specialist and often a support worker will need to be trained in how to implement them safely and positively that helps support the self-development of the client and stops the behaviours. However with any challenging behaviours we see that it is only used when people are unable to use other means to deescalate challenging and difficult behaviours’ and often these are a learnt behaviour and this can be behaviours’ such as manipulation of a support worker, through g...