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What is Positive Behaviour Support?

Positive Behaviour Support is a type of support that assists participants who may act in ways that others find challenging or hard to understand. Positive Behaviour Support is a service that can be received by some Participants on the NDIS.

What is a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner?

Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners will work with you and your support team to help ensure you are better understood and supported, reduce or eliminate restrictive practices, help ensure your human rights are respected and improve your overall quality of life . 

Your Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner will provide support and advice to you and your care network on better ways to support you and will write this advice in a Behaviour Support Plan (sometimes shortened to BSP) so everyone knows how best to care for and support you.  

What is a Restrictive Practice?

You might hear the words 'Restrictive Practice' but what does it really mean?  Restrictive Practice is anything that might be put into place to help increase safety or reduce risk, however some of these practices may impede on your rights.  Your Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner will work with you and your support team to assist in providing adequate care, reduce or eliminate restrictive practices, improve your quality of life and ensure your human rights are not violated.
 

Do I have funding for Positive Behaviour Support?

If you or one of your supports (that is, a Psychologist, Occupational Therapist etc) have let the NDIS know that you may need Positive Behaviour Support; then the NDIS may have provided you with funding to see a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner. If you take a look at your plan, you will see a funding category called 'Capacity Building - Improved Relationships'. If this category is in your plan then you can use it to see a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner!