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Positive Behaviour Support (PBS).
A 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) training courses in the UK and Ireland, for professionals working in mental health and related areas.
It is the only Positive Behaviour Support training that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online. It can also be completed as part of The APT Diploma in Psychological Therapies and The APT Diploma for working in Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings.
Executive Summary:
The course covers the background and rationale for PBS and then looks at understanding an individual’s needs, analysing their behaviour and understanding the role it fulfils. Positive and proactive, the training will empower delegates to develop individual PBS plans aimed at improving their clients’ environment and wellbeing, thus decreasing the likelihood of disturbed behaviour. Using skills and understanding from the course delegates will be able to develop specific client-centred plans, also considering their situation and family / carers.
Given that some incidents will inevitably still occur the course also covers steps to manage a crisis and to continually review and improve the plan.
This is a powerful approach that improves the environment and wellbeing of both clients and staff. This is the only PBS course that is APT accredited and gives access to relevant web-based APT resources after the course.
The course covers:
What is Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)?
- Background of PBS.
- An introduction to the Model.
- Functional Behavioural Assessment.
- Primary Prevention.
- Secondary Prevention.
- Crisis Intervention.
- Relevant background legislation.
- Evidence for PBS.
Creating a high-quality environment
- Teamwork.
- Consistency, safety and reliability.
- Awareness of surroundings.
- Meaningful activities.
Considerations for the Individuals
- Communication
- Different styles.
- Why good communication is so important.
- External Stimuli.
- Health: physical and mental.
- Strengths, ability and motivation.
- Inclusion of their support network.
Functions of behaviour/functional analysis.
- Working out the purpose of the behaviour.
- Ways to respond to the behaviour.
- Treating the behaviour.
- What if we are wrong with our analysis?
Active Support
- What is Active Support?
- How it fits so well with PBS.
- The 4 essential components.
- Learning new activities:
- Task Analysis
- Backwards Chaining
- Prompt and fade.
- How to maximise the chances of successful implementation.
Understanding and Creating the PBS Plan.
- What is a PBS Plan?
- The 4 components.
- Avoiding an incident
- Developing alternative behaviours that meet the need.
- Increasing skills and communication.
- Longer term plans.
- What makes a good PBS Plan?
- Who is it for?
- Why do you need one?
- Creating a PBS Plan.
Implementing the Plan
- Consistency
- Staying positive.
- Regular evaluations and revisions.
- Staying Client-Centred.
Crisis Management
- Devising and implementing the most appropriate strategy.
Post Incident Learning
- Procedures to follow after an incident for both the person and their carer.
- The Improvement Cycle.
What you receive as a result of attending this training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course.
Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
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Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 97%
Relevance: 93%
Online Live
Presentation: 97%
Relevance: 92%
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our training. Below are just some of the great comments our courses have received.
"This is the best training that I have been on for a long time! The tutor was excellent, informative, easy to listen to and so knowledgeable."
"Amazing and interactive course. The tutor is knowledgeable and ensures everyone is included. Awesome training and the best training I have done so far."
