Challenging behaviour
Articles on understanding behaviour that challenges: what behaviour is communicating, proactive strategies, behaviour support planning, and responding safely across children's homes, schools and adult social care.
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Functional assessment in PBS for adult services: a practical guide
When you support adults in social care, you rarely need more reminders that behaviour is communication. What you do need is a practical way to work out...
A practical guide to behaviour support planning for schools settings
When someone shows distressed behaviour, teams often feel pulled between two priorities: keeping everyone safe and preserving the person’s dignity, choice...
What good distressed behaviour training looks like in adult social care
When a person becomes distressed, staff need a response that is calm, consistent, and safe. The aim is to reduce risk without escalating the situation and...
Behaviour management training for teachers: what good looks like in UK schools
When a person becomes distressed, staff need a response that is calm, consistent, and safe. The aim is to reduce risk without escalating the situation and...
Pain compliance has no place in children’s homes
Pain compliance has no place in children’s homes. ProActive does not teach it, does not defend it, and does not accept it as a fallback for any child, any...
Understanding Behaviour as Communication: A Guide for Carers
When someone is distressed, their behaviour often carries a message...
Behaviour support plans in children’s homes: a step-by-step guide
A behaviour support plan in a children’s home is a practical, person-centred plan that explains what a child’s behaviour is communicating, what triggers it,...
Reducing distressed behaviour: evidence-based PBS strategies
Evidence-based Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) strategies, applied consistently and with proper functional assessment, can reduce...
Proactive strategies for distressed behaviour
Most incidents can be prevented long before they start. How to identify triggers and setting events, offer real choice, and use noncontingent reinforcement so that difficult moment
Trauma-Responsive Care: Beyond Behaviour Management
Trauma-responsive care is a whole-team way of supporting people where behaviour is understood as communication of stress, fear or unmet...