Positive Behaviour Support (F2F)
This course helps learners understand behaviour, identify its possible causes, and use person-centred strategies to promote positive outcomes and improve quality of life.
Learning Outcomes
The Understanding Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) course provides learners with a clear understanding of how to support individuals using a positive, person-centred approach to behaviour. Participants will explore the principles and philosophy of PBS and how these can be used to improve quality of life while reducing behaviours that may challenge.
The course examines how to develop and implement effective Behaviour Support Plans based on an individual’s needs, strengths, preferences, and circumstances. Learners will explore functional, contextual, and skills-based assessments to better understand the purpose or function of behaviour and identify appropriate support strategies.
Participants will consider the reasons behind behaviour, including factors that may be present before and during episodes of escalation. The training helps learners recognise potential triggers and early signs of changes in behaviour, enabling them to respond proactively and reduce the likelihood of situations escalating.
The course also encourages learners to reflect on their own responses to situations involving conflict, aggression, or violence. Participants will develop greater confidence in recognising behaviours that challenge and responding in a calm, appropriate, and supportive manner.
Learners will explore the PBS framework for planning interventions, with emphasis placed on proactive approaches, developing skills, adapting environments, and meeting individual needs rather than simply reacting to behaviour.
Throughout the course, particular attention is given to the importance of consistency. Participants will understand how a coordinated approach between staff, families, and other professionals can provide stability, reduce anxiety, and ensure individuals receive effective and respectful support.
By the end of this course, participants will understand the principles of Positive Behaviour Support, recognise triggers and reasons for behaviours, apply appropriate assessment and support strategies, develop Behaviour Support Plans, and promote a consistent, person-centred approach.
- Understand how to support individuals utilising a PBS approach
- Understand personal responses to situations involving conflict, aggression, and violence
- Identify and make responses to challenging behaviours
- Examine reasons for behaviour both prior to and during episodes of behaviour escalation
- Recognise the factors that trigger change in behaviour
- Recognise the importance of promoting a consistent approach in responding to the needs of people being supported
- £65.00(Premium Members)
- £75.00(Professional Members)
- £125.00(Non-Members)
In order to attend any of these sessions a booking form needs to be completed (even for sessions ‘Free to Members’, as we need to account for room capacity and a fair distribution of free places among organisations).