TRAINING
For Support Agencies

Level 2: Advanced Training
Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviour

This advanced training has been designed for and implemented with support agencies and support networks that are assisting persons with challenging behaviour in community settings. This training incorporates 36 hours of classroom instruction, combined with direct consultation and follow up. Classroom instruction incorporates case studies, videotaped analyses, and a variety of positive support strategies to illustrate how functional assessment leads to positive, multi-element support plans.

CONTENT

Behavioural Assessment

• Developing Personal Profiles (strengths, preferences, learning styles, communication abilities)
• Description of Challenging Behaviour
• Setting Events
• Antecedents
• Consequences Maintaining Behaviour
• Diagram of Behavioural Dynamics
• Communicative Hypothesis
• Competing Behavioural Paths

POSITIVE SUPPORT STRATEGIES

Setting Event Changes

• Physiological/Biological
• Physical/Environmental
• Social/Interpersonal

Antecedent Changes

• Schedule Systems
• Increasing Choices
• Changing Interaction Style
• Interspersed Requests

Teaching Functionally Equivalent Communication Skills

• Request for tangible items
• Social Interaction and Attention: Conversation books, Conversation Training
• Requesting breaks, requesting help as alternatives to escape motivated challenging behaviour

Relaxation and Imagery Based Procedures

• Cognitive Picture Rehearsal
• Visual Imagery
• Covert Positive Reinforcement
• Covert Modeling
• Self Control Triad

Positive Consequence Procedures

• Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviour (DRO)
• Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Responding (DRL)
• Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behaviours (Alt-R)
• Stimulus Control

Emergency Management Procedures

• Ignoring
• Time-out
• Verbal/Physical Techniques

TOTAL COST FOR THIS 36-HOUR TRAINING PACKAGE $9,000.00
* plus travel expenses
* direct consultation and follow-up will be at $75.00/hour

For additional information about workshops and courses, or to schedule training, contact Dr. Paul Malette of CBI Consultants at (604) 921-1670 or e-mail at info@cbiconsultants.com