Course Overview

This workshop is an introduction to Positive Behaviour Support with a strong focus on working with clients with a disability. Participants will gain a greater understanding of behaviours of concern and how they can be assessed. It will include a practical run through of assessment models and exploring interactive assessment scenarios.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand key concepts – trauma, developmental trauma, relational trauma.
• Elicit the relationship between a child’s experience of family violence and trauma, and the associated impacts.
• Feel more confident to engage with young people.
• Feel confident and competent to have conversations with young people about their ‘preferred identity’.
• Consider working with a young person and non-offending family member to address young people’s use of violence.