An Analysis of Positive Behaviour Promotion in Health and Social Care

This report delves into the crucial aspects of promoting positive behaviour within the Health and Social Care (HSC) sector, focusing on the UK's National Health and Social Care organization. It explores the significance of legislation concerning restrictive interventions, emphasizing the importance of implementing the least restrictive measures first. The report highlights various interventions and strategies, including Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) and Functional Behavioural Analysis (FBA), to foster a positive environment. It differentiates between proactive and reactive strategies, underscoring the benefits of a person-centered approach and the use of safeguards. The report also addresses best practices, different types of challenging behaviours, and steps to maintain the dignity and well-being of individuals. The analysis includes the importance of maintaining a person or child centered approach. It references relevant laws, such as the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Human Rights Act 1998, to provide a comprehensive understanding of promoting positive behaviour in HSC settings.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
P1 Legislations relativeLegislations relative to restrictive interventions in in health and
social careHSC sector.............................................................................................................3
P2 InterventionsP2 Interventions to promote positive behaviour in health and social careHSC
sector.......................................................................................................................................3
P3 Importance of implementing the least restrictive interventions first.................................4
P4 SignificanceP4 Significance of the safeguards ..............................................................4
P5 Difference between proactive and reactive strategies.......................................................4
P6 Importance of maintaining a person or child centeredcentred approach..........................5
P7 Best practices in promoting positive behaviour................................................................5
P8 Types of challenging behaviour........................................................................................6
P9 Steps to be taken to maintain the dignity and the respect of the individuals....................6
P10 Steps to be taken to check on the well-being of an person following an incident of
challenging behaviour............................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Health is an important aspect for all the individuals to remain wealthy in the present era.
Health and Social Care (HSC) sector is serving all around the world for the welfare of the
community. For the effective working of these organisations, positive attitude plays a vital role.
To have an overall picture of the same, The National Health and Social Care organisation of UK
is taken into consideration.
P1 Legislations relative to restrictive interventions in HSC sector
Restrictive interventions may be defined as restrictions that may be imposed on an
individual to act independently. In the HSC sector, it is very important to do so to have an
immediate control over any dangerous situation which may harm the patients. In relation to this,
various policies and regulations are framed by the government. For example: Health and Safety
at work Act 1974 which is aimed at maintaining the safety of all individuals. To deal with this,
reasonable forces can be used to save a person. Similarly, Human Rights Act 1998 gives a right
to a person to live
without interference from others. A person may be detained for any unlawful restriction. Many
other laws are also there. Though these are for the welfare of the community but any person can
reach the court of law in case of any unreasonableness (Previte and et.al.), 2015.
P2 Interventions to promote positive behaviour in HSC sector
Positive behaviour is very important for a successful HSC sector. To promote the same,
various thing are to be complied with. Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) plans also assists in
this. To do this, Functional Behavioural Analysis (FBA) is the first step to be carried out where
problem behaviour is analysed in a complete manner (including the events when the change in
behaviour takes place). The aim of this planning is to relate the functional behavioural
assessment findings with (Positive Behavioural Support ) PSB interventions. With the help of
proper strategies and recognition of the behavioural aspects, one can easily implement the
consistent interventions. This way, a positive environment can be promoted by diminishing the
negative mental environment.
P3 Importance of implementing the least restrictive interventions first
To have a recovery oriented attitude for the patients, least restrictive practices are of
utmost importance to be implemented (Green, 2015). This is helpful to satisfy the patients by
maintaining the effective working relationship with them along with the compliance of the laws.

It must be of reasonable nature. This way the patients are also not at the risk when there is any
change in their behaviour. In this way, these practices are important to deal with the patients.
P4 Significance of the safeguards
In case of any restrictive physical interventions, which are unreasonable, many safeguard
practices can be used for the ease of patients. For example: If the patient is restricted physically,
which is actually not to be done, the policy of Prevent excessive use of force can be used to
protect the patient. Similarly, if the person serving the patient is at any harm while doing any
operation, the policies must be adopted accordingly to safeguard the rights of them and same is
for the patients (Grant, 2015). Certain laws and code of practices must be followed for the ease
of work flow. For example, Police AND Criminal Evidence Act 1984, which gives person a right
to enter any premises to save the life of the person in emergency. This way safeguards can be
used to help the individuals.
P5 Difference between proactive and reactive strategies
To deal with this pattern of behaviour must be identified first. Reactive strategies
are planned to deal with some unanticipated events only after it occurs while proactive strategies
are planned to anticipate possible challenges. Proactive strategies are of much importance since
they allow the person serving the patients to take their own decisions rather than responding
according to the situations which have got out of control. This is the reason that National HSC of
UK is also adopting the same (Moriconi and et.al., 2015). These strategies inbound the proper
decision making strategy. For this the theory of proximity can be used which accounts for the
tendency of the individuals to make healthy relationship. It is the interaction between the patients
and the doctor to have proper communication. This way it helps to treat the patients in a better
way. This is very important if proactive strategies are being adopted. Prior de-escalation allows
better understanding of the change in behaviour.
On the other hand, Reactive strategy gives a clear plan to respond to a particular situation
to cure the problems. To have an effective control over risky behaviour of the patients these are
useful. To implement the proper strategy stages of behaviour must be recognised first. These
steps may include green proactive phase (calm and positive behaviour), amber active phase
(started feeling anxious), the red reactive phase (where challenging behaviour actually occurs),
blue post reactive phase (recovery stage) (Skouteris and et.al., 2016). After analysing the
behaviour of the patients the strategy must be implemented.

P6 Importance of maintaining a person or child centred approach
To establish proactive strategy in a proper manner, this approach is most useful. In this, a
person can make the decisions to serve the patients in the best possible way. The child centred
approaches can be accomplished by exploring the concept of MAPS (Making Action Plans)
where according to the needs of patients steps are planned, PATH (Planning Alternative
Tomorrows with Hope) where positive attitude is used to heal the patients and PFP (Personal
Future Planning) where the person takes the decisions according to the needs to get effective
consequences. Team work is most important to deal with this (Holt, 2016).
Similarly, the adult centred approaches can be accomplished with the help of Core Care
Values like respect, dignity, choice etc. Healthy relationship is must to deal with the patients in a
better way while using proactive strategies.
P7 Best practices in promoting positive behaviour
Positive attitude is an
important factor to deal with
the patients in HSC sectors.
History of the patients must be
known to a doctor to serve
them effectively. To keep them
satisfied, doctors have to
interact properly with them
Negative ambience must have
to be diminished by
communicating with the
patients about the
consequences of a particular
treatment in a proper manner
(Moriconi and et.al., 2015).
One has to boost the
confidence level of the patients
to heal them properly. Special
care must be given to them to
make the ambience friendly.
Strategies must be made
according to it.
P8 Types of challenging behaviour
HSC is a challenging sector. They have to deal with many kinds of patients. For example:

 A person may be self-injured due to personal problem or any accident
 A person may be aggressive in a physical way
 A person may be verbally not good.
 A person may be of stereotype attitude.
 Due to an accident, body fluid may come out which will let the person to react in another
way.
 Criminal offences like theft, etc. have different impact on the behavioural aspect of the
person.
According to the situations, the person reacts in different ways. One has to make proper
strategies to deal with them (Green, 2015).
P9 Steps to be taken to maintain the dignity and the respect of the individuals
While responding to an incident of challenging behaviour, it is to be kept in mind to
maintain the dignity of the person. This will help to heal the person in a proper manner. The
doctors have to keep calm and non- aggressive if the patient’s behaviour is drastically changed
while a treatment. One has to keep the tone lower while communicating with the patients. One
has to show support for them to boost up their confidence. According to the situations, the person
may be in the state of various behaviour, like, sadness, anger, fear, etc. One has to recognise the
behaviour patterns and triggers along with the post and future incident reviews to deal with the
problem. Planning must be done in a proper way for this.
P10 Steps to be taken to check on the well-being of an person following an incident of
challenging behaviour
To check the post stages of challenging behaviour incident various things can be done.
Some of them are listed below:
 Interviews can be conducted with them to know their current positions. For example: Life
Space Interview developed by Fritz Redl can be done.
 After a shot span of time, the position of person can be analysed.
 IESCAPE acronym can be used to accomplish the same which includes isolating the
person, exploring and sharing the views of person, connecting with other events,
alternatives, implementing the alternatives for entering into the normal routine in an
effective way (Green, 2015).
This way one can check the later stages.

CONCLUSION
To conclude, we can say that HSC sector is quite challenging. To deal with the people of
varied behaviour, one must have to follow proper strategies. In addition, one has to implement
positive behavioural approach to deal effectively with the patients.

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