Writing Positive Support Strategies: Behavior and De-escalation 💻

Positive support strategies are required for everyone! Some people however require additional support to increase knowledge and skills to decrease negative or interfering behaviors through the development of positive, adaptive behaviors. This class will focus specifically on strategies to understand behavior, help someone de-escalate in a way that is effective for them, and learn skills to manage and/or decrease their interfering behavior. We will also examine the Five Stages of Crisis, how a person progresses through each stage, and how we can proactively and reactively support someone to de-escalate to a Stage One: Calm.

Course objectives:

• Understand behavior, its purpose is, and what the person is communicating through them
• Learn how to identify and address the purpose of the behavior and support the person in developing positive, replacement behavior
• Understand the Five Stages of Crisis with proactive and reactive measures to support someone though all stages with the least restrictive strategies
• Discover positive support strategies to address interfering behavior and how to document them so staff understand them and can implement them well
• Identify ways to train staff so they fully understand who the person is and how to best support them through person-centered practices and positive support strategies

Learning about positive support strategies is exciting! After this course, you will feel ready to develop your skills in writing positive support strategies and to help someone reach their best and most meaningful life!

CEU Contact Hours: 1.8 for Nurses, 1.5 for Social Workers