Functional Behaviour Assessment and the Positive Behaviour ...

Functional Behaviour Assessment and the Positive Behaviour Support

Capability Framework

What capabilities are required?

Overview

The PBS Capability Framework has seven capability domains, or areas of practice, that reflect a set of core principles and values.

Each capability domain is broken into three parts:

1. Practitioner knowledge

2. Practitioner skills

3. Service provider and implementing provider considerations to ensure plans are effectively actioned.

Principles & Values

Interim Response

Functional

Assessment

Planning

Implementation Know it works

Reduce & Eliminate

Restrictive Practice

CPD & Supervision

Legislative Framework

NDIS Act (2013) Section 181H

PBS Capability Framework

NDIS (Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support) Rules 2018

NDIS (Provider Registration and Practice Standards) Rules 2018

NDIS (Quality Indicators) Guidelines 2018

PBS Capability Framework

The capability domains:

1. Interim response

2. Functional assessment

3. Planning

4. Implementation

5. Know it works

6. Restrictive practice

7. Continuing professional development and supervision

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Principles & Values

Interim Response

Functional

Assessment

Planning

ImplementKnow it works

Reduce & Eliminate

Restrictive Practice

CPD & Supervision

Interim Response

Outcome:

Each participant with an immediate need for a behaviour support plan receives an interim behaviour support plan which minimises the risk to the participant and others.

Legislative Framework

NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioners

Evaluate the risks in collaboration with the participant

Collaborate with the participant, provider and support network, including mainstream service providers (e.g., police, emergency services, mental health, medical practitioners, other allied health clinicians)

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Functional Behaviour Assessment

Outcome:

Each participant’s quality of life is maintained and improved by tailored, evidence-informed behaviour support plans that are responsive to their needs identified through assessment.

Legislative Framework

NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioners

Collaborate with participant and support network

Ensure the participant’s needs, support requirements, preferences, strengths and goals are included in the assessment

Consider previous behaviour support assessments and other provider assessments

Identify unmet needs, the function and/or purpose of behaviours, and strategies to address behaviours

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1. Planning the assessment – PBS Capability Framework

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Core Level Practitioner Skills Proficient Level and Above Practitioner Skills

Evaluate the risk posed by the behaviour of concern to the person and others, interim response required?

Ensure the participant is at the centre of the assessment and establish support to keep them there

Review relevant information and data

Communicate with other providers involved

Collaborate with the relevant stakeholders

Establish a developmental history, including history of trauma, sensory processing, social and interpersonal history

Review and analyse any current or previous interventions including reactive strategies and use of restrictive practices

Consider physical or mental health problems including the effect of medications and sleep

Identify possible enablers and barriers to quality of life and future interventions

2. Conducting the assessment– PBS Capability Framework

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Core Level Practitioner Skills Proficient Level and Above Practitioner Skills

Develop rapport and consult with the person, their family, carers, guardian or other relevant people

Assess the person’s abilities and needs

Use observation skills

Use effective data collection systems

Identify antecedents to behaviours of concern and factors that support quality of life

Identify consequences that maintain a behaviour

Identify and describe the behaviour in a way that is observable and measurable

Conduct a comprehensive functional analyses of behaviours of concern

Lead an interdisciplinary assessment of complex behaviour

Assess and regularly review areas of risk to the person or others

3. Documenting the assessment– PBS Capability Framework

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Core Level Practitioner Skills Proficient Level and Above Practitioner Skills

Analyse the relationship between the person and their environment

Record and report data accurately

Produce a behaviour assessment report

Construct a model of understanding that explains the functions of behaviours

Produce an assessment report that includes recommended actions and strategies

Refer on when the requirements fall outside of the scope of behaviour support

Behaviour Support Contacts

Donna WhiteActing Director Behaviour Support – NSW and ACT

ACT: [email protected]

Phone: 1800 035 544 This is a free call from landlines

Website: www.ndiscommission.gov.au