Supporting Positive Behaviors

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SupportingPositive Behaviors
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A Person Centered PlanGeneral strategiesIndividu
alized approaches
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Five Essential Goals ofPerson-Centered Planning

• Being present and participating in community life
• Gaining and maintaining satisfying relationships
• Expressing preferences and making choices in
  everyday life
• Having opportunities to fulfill respected roles
  and live in dignity
• Continuing to develop personal competencies

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Gains
Smiles a lot Good eye
contact Seeks out social interaction
Good sense of humor Friendly
Acknowledges social
greetings Redirects nicely Very
forgiving
Respect!

• List any behaviors or characteristics of the
  person that cause him/her to gain or lose respect
  or his/her peers or adults.
• Under Gains list those things you really like
  about the person.
• Under Loses list those behaviors that you do
  not like to see.

Loses
Loud noises Flops
Zones out
Unaware of personal space Grinds teeth
Inappropriate touching
Inappropriate laughing/giggling
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What are the ABCs of behavior?

• A Antecedent
• (what took place just prior to the behavior?)
• B Behavior
• (what behavior was exhibited?)
• C Consequence
• (What happened immediately following the
  behavior?)

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Antecedents

• Look carefully at the events prior to the
  behavior occurring.
• Some examples of what might trigger a challenging
  behavior
• Making demands on the person
• An activity that is not a preferred activity
• Maybe who they are with at the time
• Maybe because they are alone and want attention
• Or any multitude of things

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Behaviors

• Destructive
• Disruptive
• Interfering Behaviors

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• Conditions that increase likelihood behavior will
  occur
• (which can be true even for you or I)

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• When presented with a demand (particularly 11
  goals), Tommy will scream, yell out, and laugh to
  obtain attention and to avoid doing tasks.
• When making a transition to another environment,
  Tommy screams to get adult and peer attention.

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CONSEQUENCE

• What happens AFTER
• the behavior occurs?

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WHAT WAS THE ENVIRONMENT?
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Some Possible Prevention Interventions
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Responding Strategies

• May require a change
• New ways to meet needs rather than reacting to
  challenging behaviors

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Lifestyle Interventions
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• Good support plans
• Often take a preventive approach such as
  Offering choices (activities, reinforcers) and
• Demands become less aversive.

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Personal
Choices

• What choices can the individual make within
  his/her personal life?
• Identify what choices are presented to the
  individual within both areas.

Drink Snack Bathroom
Activity Reinforcers Clothing
Compliant or noncompliant
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Outcomes

• Significant decrease in problem behaviors
• Increase in the use of replacement behaviors
• Increase in choice-making and task engagement
• Complies with initiating tasks
• Uses new behaviors in multiple settings
• Home, school, restaurants, activities, social
  gatherings
• Invited by friends to join in activities

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When our children are happy, were all happy!
The end.