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Positive Behaviour Support features approaches designed to respond to behaviour that challenges when it occurs. These are called reactive strategies.
The implementation of reactive strategies is important to ensure the safety of the person displaying behaviours that challenge and others. Where proactive strategies take longer to create a lasting impact on the person’s quality of life, we also need robust reactive strategies to help us cope in the meantime.
What are reactive strategies?
Reactive strategies are what we do to respond to behaviours that challenge when it happens to keep people safe and get things back to calm as soon as possible. These might include:
Distraction
Reducing expectations
The use of agreed physical interventions
Reassurance
It must not include punishment.
To find out more how we support people whose behaviour can be challenging using reactive strategies, see our Positive Behaviour Support resource.
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