Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Online |
Unit description
Examines contemporary evidence based positive behaviour support approaches. Strategies for aligning organisational policies and support with evidence based practice will be operationalised within a person centred framework. The skills of mentoring and leading a behaviour support team will be developed.
Unit content
- Key literature and legislation pertaining to positive behaviour support
- Knowing the person, building relationships and actioning interests and aspirations
- Environments, systems and strategies that facilitate opportunity, engagement, communication, choice, control and meaningful activity
- Functional assessment of behaviour: approaches and tools, and evidence based positive behaviour support practices to endorse least restrictive approaches
- Working with teams: multidisciplinary, families, networks of support
- Behaviour Support Planning: developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluation
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | critically appraise the contribution of the main theoretical constructs and legislation in influencing positive behaviour support | Ethical practice | ||||||
| 2 | support staff in the development and maintenance of positive environments and relationships relevant to the person’s interests and interactional styles | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | ||||
| 3 | construct a model that explains the functions of a person’s challenging behaviour and how those are maintained | Ethical practice | Cultural competence | |||||
| 4 | provide leadership in initiating and collaborating to develop a behaviour support plan with a team | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | ||||
| 5 | evaluate the implementation of a behaviour support plan to ensure best evidence based practice | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | ||||
| 6 | critically appraise organisational policies and strategies to ensure least restrictive practices | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | ||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- critically appraise the contribution of the main theoretical constructs and legislation in influencing positive behaviour support
- GA3: Ethical practice
- support staff in the development and maintenance of positive environments and relationships relevant to the person’s interests and interactional styles
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- GA7: Cultural competence
- construct a model that explains the functions of a person’s challenging behaviour and how those are maintained
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA7: Cultural competence
- provide leadership in initiating and collaborating to develop a behaviour support plan with a team
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- GA7: Cultural competence
- evaluate the implementation of a behaviour support plan to ensure best evidence based practice
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- GA7: Cultural competence
- critically appraise organisational policies and strategies to ensure least restrictive practices
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- GA7: Cultural competence
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Structured online learning (6wks) |
| Assessment | |
| Report | 40% |
| Case study | 60% |
Fee information
Domestic
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