Client Right #10 and Bringing Positive Behavior Support to ARF's
- sublimelivingmisa
- Sep 30, 2024
- 1 min read
Client Right #10: "A right to make choices in their own lives, including, but not limited to, where and with whom they live, their relationships with people in their community, the way they spend their time including education, employment, and leisure, and pursuit of their personal future, and program planning and implementation."
Behavior Intervention Training:
Managing clients and their behaviors is something that we deal with on a daily basis and our goal for every day is to help them to be successful. As Direct Support Professionals we can help them succeed by helping to increase their independence and functional performance. For example, we can help them to meet their daily goals, help make them feel good about themselves, and help them to learn new things.
The way we can help is to acknowledge that everything is a behavior. So our goal is to replace behaviors we want to decrease with those behaviors we want to increase.
1) Explain what ABC stands for?
2) When should you intervene to prevent a behavior? Give an example of how to change a behavior?
Antecedent (Trigger
Behavior (Function
Consequence(Response
How to change behaviors
Become familiar with a few reactive strategies
Identify the functions of the clients behavior
Antecedent, behavior, consequence. When a behavior is inappropriate as staff you can ask the individual to take a walk before the behavior escalates
A- stands for Antecedent - is simething that come before the behavior
B- stands for Behavior -is anything as individuald does
C- stands for Consequence-is something to change the behavior
Example how to change the behavior:
>Develope a healthy relationship
> Make the rules clear
>Explain the consequences
> Praise good behavior
> Provide structures
> Working as a team
>Talk about their feelings
>Teaching impulse control
A - Antecedent - it is something that comes before the behavior
B - Conduct - What triggered the behavior?
C- Consequence - it is what brings the consequence of the acts.
As staff, we have a responsibility to provide personalized attention when observing inappropriate behavior with the client, we must reinforce the behavior by asking them how they feel or offering them something they like or taking them for a walk and explaining the consequences of bad behavior.
A- stands for Antecedent
B- stands for Behavior
C- stands for Consequence
Try to prevent the client from getting agitated when you see the key signs
Redirecting and keeping them busy with activity or making them feel heard