Positive Behaviour Support Darwin
How Positive Behaviour Support Works in Darwin
Allied Health 2U provides Positive Behaviour Support services in Darwin and surrounding regions. This completed by our Positive Behaviour Support practitioners who may reside in other states and provide services in a FIFO manner. Services are funded under the NDIS Improved Relationships support category. In order to keep plans moving and prevent participants from having to wait weeks for their next interaction, our delivery model for Darwin participants combines scheduled in-person practitioner visits with telehealth sessions in between.
What is a Behaviour Support Plan?
A behaviour support plan is the working document that guides everyone supporting a participant. It is complete by behaviour support practitioners and it sets out the agreed strategies, the environmental adjustments, and the skill-building goals. The plan for Darwin participants is based on what can be accomplished in their community, day program, school, or home. In accordance with the requirements of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, the plan also lays out a clear process for reducing or eliminating any regulated restrictive practices.
What Goes Into a Behaviour Support Assessment?
The assessment is where the work begins. Our practitioners spend time with the participant, their family, and the people who already support them well, looking for patterns: when does a behaviour happen, what comes before it, what comes after, and what is the behaviour communicating? Face-to-face visits allow for direct observation in the home or community, while telehealth sessions with family, support workers, school, or day program staff round out the picture across every setting the participant moves through.
Our Behaviour Support Practitioners
Our practitioners are registered with the NDIS Commission and bring clinical backgrounds across Psychology, Counselling, Psychotherapy, Rehabilitation Counselling, and mental health Occupational Therapy. Each practitioner working with Darwin participants is assessed against the PBS Capability Framework, the national standard for behaviour support practitioner suitability. We also spend time matching practitioners to participants based on communication style and clinical fit, because that matters as much as the qualifications.
What Outcomes Can Families Expect?
Meaningful change in behaviour support is usually gradual. Families most often notice fewer and less intense behaviours of concern, a reduction in restrictive practices, more independence in everyday routines, and better relationships between the participant and the people around them. We are honest about timelines. Behaviour support is not a quick fix, but the changes that do come tend to hold, because they are built on understanding rather than control.
A behaviour support pracititioner will initially come out to see the individual who requires behaviour support interventions and/or a behaviour support plan.
The first step involves the behaviour support practitioner completing a thorough assessment to assess the individuals behaviours and noting down all behaviours of concern. The behaviour support practitioner will communicate with the participant directly as well as other who the participant spends greatest time with.
Once the behaviours of concern have been identified, the behaviour support practitioner will identify assessments that those around the individuals who has the behaviours of concern can complete.
The behaviour support practitioners will then complete a behaviour assessment report which will details all the relevant behaviour of concern. After completing the behaviour assessment report then behaviour support practitioner will complete a behaviour support plan which will provide guidance on how to best assist/manage the behaviours of concern.
There can be a range of reason that beahviours of concern may occur.
All behaviours of concern happen for a reason.
The reason will depend on each individual. Some of the reasons for some behaviours of concern are listed below:
- An individual may be in pain
- An individuals medication may not be agreeing with them
- The individual may be sick
- The individual has a condition such as autism, schizophrenia or prader willi syndrome
- Individual is not eating well
- Their hormones may not be working properly.
- An individual may be hungry or thirsty and know how to communicate properly
- An individual may want to go somewhere, do something or they are lonely and they are not able to communicate effectively.
- An individual may show behaviours of concern to get something they desire such as spending time with someone, getting something they want, getting out of doing something they do not want to do.
- There may be something about the individuals environment that they do not like such as it is too noisy or quite, it may be too hot or cold, there are bad smells around, they can not get somewhere or reach something, there may be too many people around or they may be bored.
As an NDIS provider, Behaviour Support practitioners at Allied Health 2U have the skills and experience to provide beahviour assessment reports, behaviour support plan and behaviour therapy/ implementation to participants on the NDIS. Our Allied Health professionals can assist NDIS participants to help meet their goals around independence, participation in the commuity and well-being.
There are a range of different behaviours of concern. Below are the mind kinds:
- Hurting themselves
- Hurting others
- Breaking things
- Refusing to do things
- Hiding away from other people
- Doing things that other do not like for example a person may scream or swear or take their clothes off
PBS is for any NDIS participant who experiences behaviours of concern, regardless of age or diagnosis. We work with children, adults, and older Darwin participants across a wide range of presentations.
- Children and Adolescents
PBS for children with developmental disability, autism, intellectual disability or behaviours of concern at home, school or in the community.
- Adults
PBS for adults living independently, in supported accommodation or with family, including complex behaviours and restrictive practice reduction.
- Older Participants
Behaviour support for older NDIS participants, including those experiencing behaviours of concern alongside cognitive changes. - Families and Support Workers
Training and coaching for families, support workers and SIL teams so the whole team can support the participant well.
Our Positive Behaviour Support Services in Darwin
Our PBS service is delivered across four connected areas of practice. Each works together to create lasting, person-centred change.
Behaviour Support Plans
Practical, person-centred plans that guide consistent, supportive responses to behaviours of concern.
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Structured assessments to understand why behaviours of concern happen and what factors maintain them.
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Hands-on coaching and training to help carers, families and support teams apply strategies confidently.
Learn more → about Positive Behaviour SupportRestrictive Practice Reduction
Rights-based, evidence-informed work to reduce and eliminate restrictive practices over time.
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