Nvq L5 Health & Social Care Lead Positive Behavioural Support
Unit 540 Lead positive behavioural support |
Positive behaviour support (PBS) is an approach to providing services to individuals who exhibit challenging behaviour. Since the early 1990s, PBS has received increasing attention from the behaviour-analytic community. Some behaviour analysts have embraced this approach, but others have voiced questions and concerns. Over the past dozen years, an approach to delivery of behavioral services known as positive behavior support has emerged as a highly visible movement. Although PBS has been substantially influenced by applied behavior analysis, other factors are also part of its history. Anderson and Freeman (2000) recently defined positive behavioural support as a systematic approach to the delivery of clinical and educational services that is rooted in behaviour analysis. However, recent literature varied definitions of PBS as well as discrepant notions regarding the relation between applied behaviour analysis and PBS. After summarizing common definitional characteristics of PBS from the literature, I conclude that PBS is comprised almost exclusively of techniques and values originating in applied behaviour analysis.
Positive Behavior Support (Origins & Development)
Positive behavior support (also referred to as positive behavioral interventions and supports) emerged from the controversy surrounding the use of aversive consequences with people with developmental disabilities. An article by Horner et al, began with the statement that “In recent years, a broad-based movement has emerged in support of no aversive behavior management”. He asserted that “No aversive behavior management … has developed … as an alternative to the use of more extreme aversive events” and coined the phrase “positive behavior support” to refer to no aversive behavior-management procedures. They stated that “many people …
Positive behaviour support (PBS) is an approach to providing services to individuals who exhibit challenging behaviour. Since the early 1990s, PBS has received increasing attention from the behaviour-analytic community. Some behaviour analysts have embraced this approach, but others have voiced questions and concerns. Over the past dozen years, an approach to delivery of behavioral services known as positive behavior support has emerged as a highly visible movement. Although PBS has been substantially influenced by applied behavior analysis, other factors are also part of its history. Anderson and Freeman (2000) recently defined positive behavioural support as a systematic approach to the delivery of clinical and educational services that is rooted in behaviour analysis. However, recent literature varied definitions of PBS as well as discrepant notions regarding the relation between applied behaviour analysis and PBS. After summarizing common definitional characteristics of PBS from the literature, I conclude that PBS is comprised almost exclusively of techniques and values originating in applied behaviour analysis.
Positive Behavior Support (Origins & Development)
Positive behavior support (also referred to as positive behavioral interventions and supports) emerged from the controversy surrounding the use of aversive consequences with people with developmental disabilities. An article by Horner et al, began with the statement that “In recent years, a broad-based movement has emerged in support of no aversive behavior management”. He asserted that “No aversive behavior management … has developed … as an alternative to the use of more extreme aversive events” and coined the phrase “positive behavior support” to refer to no aversive behavior-management procedures. They stated that “many people …