Promote Positive Behaviour: Legislation, Interventions, and Best Practices

This assignment discusses the legislation related to restrictive intervention, interventions to promote positive behaviour, importance of least restrictive interventions, role of safeguards, proactive and reactive strategies, person-centered approach, best practices, types of challenging behaviour, steps to maintain dignity and respect, and steps for checking person behaviour.

PROMOTE POSITIVE
BEHAVIOUR

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Identification of legislation related to restrictive intervention..........................................1
P2 Intervention which can be used to promote positive behaviour........................................2
P3 Importance of using Process of implementation of least restrictive interventions...........2
P4 Role of safeguards while intervening the situation...........................................................3
TASK2.............................................................................................................................................3
P5 Difference between proactive and reactive strategies.......................................................3
P6 Explaining importance of child or person centred approach.............................................3
TASK3.............................................................................................................................................4
P7 Best practices which promote positive behaviour.............................................................4
TASK4.............................................................................................................................................4
P8 Types of challenging behaviour........................................................................................4
P9 Steps taken to maintain dignity and respect of an individual............................................5
P10 Explain the all steps for checking person behaviour.......................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The health and social care sector with in process of providing world-class services to its
clientele have to encounter several behavioural posses by them . To deal with such challenges
efficiently an executive must be proficient with tactics such as communication and interpersonal
skills This assignment takes into consideration the legislations formed by the government in
interest of health and safety practices in the institution. The tools of interventions are discussed
upon and best practices along with response to challenging behaviour will be identified and
applied onto clientèle (Aknin, Dunn and Norton, 2012).
TASK1
P1 Identification of legislation related to restrictive intervention
Restrictive interventions are referred to as involvement of service provider in the life of
an user. Various concerning laws which are relevant to the restrictive interventions are as
follows:
Health and safety at work 1974: This is one of the most critical legislation formed which
compel the employer to ensure as far as it is practically possible that health ,safety and welfare
of customers are maintained. Employees are to be provided with healthy & risk free working
environment so at to carry out their tasks & duties. They need to be well acquainted with
information, training and instruction while dealing with service users for ethical intervention
process.
Mental capacity act 2005: This legislation have been formed to protect the interest of
people with medical illness who lack capability to make decisions for themselves & are
dependable on service provider to carry out their basic functions (Beavers, Iwata and Lerman,
2013). The treatment offered should be weighted to be least restrictive encouraging their
freedom .
Common law: This law compels the service provider to ensure duty of care offered to
client by prioritizing safe & healthy working environment for them . The service provider is
obliged to justify any involvement in lives of client & to maintain trust and confidence of its
clients.
1

P2 Intervention which can be used to promote positive behaviour
Intervention is an involvement plan which is undertaken to to prevent behaviour
problems by addressing the cause to improve performance of an individual.
Below is the behavioural intervention plan for promotion of behaviour.
Behavioural Intervention Plan
Specific Goals Proposed Interventions Person Responsible Evaluation
The primary aim of
the plan to increase
use of respectful
language by John.
The unacceptable
language & verbal
threats used by him
will be deal with.
The proposed
interventions are
Effective
communication
 conducting a
behavioural
analysis
 Identifying the
factors &
circumstances
responsible for
facing challenges
in behaviour .
The responsibility for
conducting &
evaluating this
intervention will
relay on practitioners
and social care
workers (Biglan,
2015).
The methods involved
in this intervention are
Contract forms and
discipline referrals.
The set criteria for this
approach will be use of
dignified language &
constructive comments
.
P3 Importance of using Process of implementation of least restrictive interventions
It is significant to utilise the ideal process of the intervention in order to manage situation
in the desired manner. First,the service user demonstrate behaviour that needs to be understand &
deal with and thenceforth situation a client might depict aggressive behaviour including biting
scratching & kicking which needs rapid intervened by the service provider to control the
situation (Castronovo and Huang, 2012). It is critical to adopt a process with least restrictive
2

practices to improve a client's behaviour . The law defining status of health and safety are to be
followed & while dealing with patients minimum force should be allowed.
P4 Role of safeguards while intervening the situation
Safeguards are the precautionary measures to protect situation from getting worse. It is
crucial to take preventive measures like involving parents in the behaviour of a child. The
result and information related to intervention should be informed to the parents. In case of
individual getting aggressive a service provider should manage situation by applying minimum
force. The codes and conduct of operations giving supreme priority to user's welfare should be
kept in mind (Holt, 2016). Under such circumstances service user and provider must encounter
an injury while intervening in challenging situations.
TASK2
P5 Difference between proactive and reactive strategies
The table below defines the major difference between proactive and reactive strategies.
Proactive strategies: These strategies are
actions plan formulated to precede possible
challenges with their probable solutions
Reactive strategies: these are strategies that
responds to unanticipated challenges after their
occurrence.
These strategies emphasise upon planning &
reviewing the course of activities in advance
for improving behaviour of individual.
No advance strategies is prepared for planning&
reviewing the situation. The focus of actions
plans and theories are generally to mitigate the
circumstances.
It is a multi-disciplinary teams approach to
cater the overall needs of an individual (Juffer
and et. al., 2012).
It action plans doesn't requires formulation of
multi-disciplinary teams as these situation can
be handled by themselves .
3

P6 Explaining importance of child or person centred approach
It is critically significant for a healthcare institution have a person centred approach so as
to prioritize special consideration to the needs and desires of consumers. This approach is
helpful in carefully planning and execution of future action plan. This attribute helps in serving
clients in the best possible way with minimum chances of eruption of challenging behaviour. The
formulation of future business plans helps in guiding young children to lead their future in right
direction. This planning ensures the formulation of multi-disciplinary teams for identification of
problems and holistic development (Kok and et. al., 2013). It is therefore recommended to
healthcare organisation to opt for person centred approach so that they can avail best services
offered to them along with promotion of positive behaviour.
TASK3
P7 Best practices which promote positive behaviour
Some of the practices beneficial in promotion of ideal behaviour of an individual are as follows:
1. Information related to a person and his background serves to be of greatest importance so
as fulfil his needs in the best possible manner. This feature helps in formulation of major
strategies which assists in eliminating challenging behaviour.
2. The right behaviour should be encouraged at initial level whereas negative behaviour
should be discontinued at the root level.
3. The plan initiates actions which leads to reduction in negative behaviour .
4. The involvement of service proficient in policy formulation can effect the way clients are
treated (Korda and Itani, 2013).
5. To reduce negative behaviour they need to proficient by conducting proper training &
workshops for them.
TASK4
P8 Types of challenging behaviour
The challenging behaviour can be categorized on major three segment which are listed below. Self-injury: Self injury is the most threatening & devastating behaviour exhibited by an
individual which includes rubbing, scratching and head banging.
4

 Physical aggression: It an attempt to cause physical injury to others or harming personal
property or institution. Individual with such behavioural issue becomes violent having
no control over its actions & behaviour. Major forms to show aggression are hitting,
pushing and kicking .
 Verbal aggression: It is the most savage form of communication which deals with the
aggressive behaviour projected by a service user. The major examples are character ,
competent and appearance attacks.
P9 Steps taken to maintain dignity and respect of an individual
 When we deal with challenging behaviour of an individual it is important to maintain
dignity and respect of the person, as these two elements are major factor that must be
taken into consideration while dealing a person with such behaviour (Lin and Huang,
2012). Following are the major steps to maintain dignity and respect while dealing a
patience with challenging behaviour:
 It is important to act in calm and polite manner while dealing such individual.
 During process his comfort must be entertained properly and activities should be
completed in due course of action.
 One must avoid isolation in order to get accepted socially.
 Effective communication is the key where every circumstances can be handled without
hurting an individual's sentiments.
P10 Explain the all steps for checking person behaviour
Services provide has analysis the behaviour of their clients. For this they follows some step:
 Identify customer's needs and wants.
 Behaviour toward situations.
 Gap between actual and desire behaviour (Montano and Kasprzyk, 2015).
 Take action to full fill these gap in an effective manner.
CONCLUSION
From above report it is concluded that an individual with challenging behaviour must be
dealt with professionalism. In order to suppress aggressive behaviour in patience effective
communication must be practice by maintaining dignity and respect. Service providers can
5

minimize these traits of a patience using effective strategies that can be constructed using tool of
intervention.
6

REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Aknin, L. B., Dunn, E. W. and Norton, M. I., 2012. Happiness runs in a circular motion:
Evidence for a positive feedback loop between prosocial spending and happiness.
Journal of Happiness Studies. 13(2). pp.347-355.
Beavers, G. A., Iwata, B. A. and Lerman, D. C., 2013. Thirty years of research on the functional
analysis of problem behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. 46(1). pp.1-21.
Biglan, A., 2015. The nurture effect: How the science of human behavior can improve our lives
and our world. New Harbinger Publications.
Castronovo, C. and Huang, L., 2012. Social media in an alternative marketing communication
model. Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness. 6(1). p.117.
Holt, N. L. ed., 2016. Positive youth development through sport. Routledge.
Juffer and et. al., 2012. Promoting positive parenting: An attachment-based intervention.
Routledge.
Kok and et. al., 2013. How positive emotions build physical health: Perceived positive social
connections account for the upward spiral between positive emotions and vagal tone.
Psychological science. 24(7). pp.1123-1132.
Korda, H. and Itani, Z., 2013. Harnessing social media for health promotion and behavior
change. Health promotion practice. 14(1). pp.15-23.
Lin, P. C. and Huang, Y. H., 2012. The influence factors on choice behavior regarding green
products based on the theory of consumption values. Journal of Cleaner Production.
22(1). pp.11-18.
Montano, D. E. and Kasprzyk, D., 2015. Theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior,
and the integrated behavioral model. Health behavior: Theory, research and practice,
pp.95-124.
Ng, T. W. and Feldman, D. C., 2012. Employee voice behavior: A meta‐analytic test of the
conservation of resources framework. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 33(2).
pp.216-234.
Shah Alam, S. and Mohamed Sayuti, N., 2011. Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB)
in halal food purchasing. International journal of Commerce and Management. 21(1).
pp.8-20.
Solomon, M., Russell-Bennett, R. and Previte, J., 2012. Consumer behaviour. Pearson Higher
Education AU.
Staub, E., 2013. Positive social behavior and morality: Social and personal influences. Elsevier.
7

8