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Explain the importance of reinforcing positive behaviour with individuals

By reinforcing positive behaviour, an individual learns that the behaviour is good and is more inclined to repeat it in future. Many incidents of challenging behaviour are caused by the individual requiring attention from others, but if an individual learns that they can get much more pleasant attention by behaving positively, they are more likely to satisfy their craving for attention in positive ways.

Explain the importance of maintaining a person or child centred approach when establishing proactive strategies

A person-centred approach is important in all aspects of an individual’s support because they have the right to be involved in all decisions that concern them. It is all the more important when establishing proactive strategies for dealing with challenging behaviour because the individual knows more about the reasons why they have they incidents of challenging behaviour than anybody else, so are best-placed to provide information about how to avoid them. In addition, everyone is unique and so are their triggers so proactive strategies should also be tailored uniquely to the individual using a person-centric approach.

Explain the importance of identifying patterns of behaviour or triggers to challenging behaviour when establishing proactive or reactive strategies to be used

It is very important to identify which triggers or patterns come immediately before an individual has challenging behaviour because this information can be utilised to avoid (proactive) or manage (reactive) challenging behaviour in the future. It can also provide important information about the reasons for the change in behaviour. For example, if an individual has an incident of challenging behaviour immediately after two support workers are laughing and joking with each other in another room, it may be that the individual thinks that they are laughing at him behind his back. The proactive solution would be for support workers to not laugh and joke unless the individual is in the same room and involved in the conversation. The reactive solution would be to explain to the individual that they were not laughing at him.

Identify the proactive and reactive strategies that are used within own work role

Within my own work role I use both proactive and reactive strategies. One of my clients suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and would often have episodes of challenging behaviour when it was time to go for his weekly medical injection at the doctors. We worked with him and his GP to arrange for his support to be changed so that a nurse came to his home to administer the injection, which radically reduced his challenging behaviour. This is an example of a proactive strategy. Another example of a proactive strategy is dimming the lights or drawing the curtains for a client that is hypersensitive to light when they are looking upset and talking it over with them. If this clients behaviour escalates, he will stomp around slamming doors and verbally abusing staff. We then use reactive strategies such as ignoring him until he has calmed down. Another reactive strategy we use with a particular client is to do impressions to make him laugh when he is angry. He doesn’t stay angry for long.

Explain the difference between proactive and reactive strategies

Proactive strategies are techniques to prevent challenging behaviour happening, whereas reactive strategies are techniques that are used during an incident of challenging behaviour. Proactive strategies are always preferred as an incident of challenging behaviour can be very stressful for an individual and affect their well-being. Looking at triggers or antecedents that lead to challenging behaviour and trying to avoid or nullify them is an example of a proactive strategy. Distracting an individual whose behaviour is challenging is a reactive strategy.

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