The 2 Day +ProActive Approaches  Course (Children’s Services Edition – SEMH settings) will give your staff a clear insight into the reasons for challenging behaviour. During the course, delegates gain significant benefit from the dynamic nature of the interactive learning, as well as the positive impact on understanding and information retention from the experiential exercises and video case studies.

The course covers the following:

• Introduction & Welcome (setting the scene).
• Defining ‘Challenging Behaviour’.
• Establishing healthy ‘Values’ and a robust foundation for practice.
• Child Development in a context of understanding behaviour.
• Trauma & Attachment informed practice.
• House Model of Parenting and incorporating PACE into behaviour support.
• Understanding ‘the function’ of a behaviour.
• Recognising types and causes of behaviour and use these to develop pro-active and preventative strategies when responding to behaviour.
• Understanding ‘Setting Events’ & ‘Triggers’.
• Understanding the ‘arousal cycle’.
• Developing a robust set of ‘De-Escalation’ skills and choosing the correct response.
• Why children lie and how to respond therapeutically using a simple ‘4 Step Formula’.
• Understanding the different forms of aggression.
• Consider behaviours for adults to avoid when supporting children in crisis, becoming a ‘trusted adult’ and therapeutic responses to crisis.
• Developing individualised support plans that will support children in relation to their behaviour.
• How to include children and young people in behaviour planning (promoting inclusion, choices and considering a therapeutic approach to behaviour plans).
• Understanding restrictive practices.
• The law & legal context.
• The health risks associated with physically holding children (including positional asphyxiation).
• Developing the use of low arousal approaches.
• Low-level guiding & escorting techniques using +ProActive Building Blocks©.
• 1 and 2 person holds using +ProActive Building Blocks©.