..., where 10 individuals with a learning disability reside. Design/methodology/approach The intervention was provided through a dedicated behavioural clinical specialist role over nine months. An initial assessment included measures evaluating PBS, active support and staff culture. Narrative themes were...

... disabilities, including the impact of culture. Findings Key to ensuring good quality of life outcomes is support that is facilitative, enabling and empowering which can compensate for severity of disability and improve people’s experiences. This approach is called Active Support. Improving quality of life...

... to focal person and complete appraisal tool (Table 2) Guide appraisal of current support Individual support plan developed using characteristics of capable environment 2 Overview of positive behaviour support (Gore et al., 2013); person-centred active support (PCAS) (Beadle-Brown et al...

... be “unified” actually hides how power operates to resolve disagreements among positive behaviour support, active support and human rights approaches. A similar erasure occurs in the language of “capable environments,” which the author argues obscures the role of individuals, relationships and organizational...

... to which NICE guidelines were reflected in practice. They confirmed Dimensions’ commitment to actively supporting the NHS England STOMP campaign. It is worth noting that there has been an ongoing conversation about the inclusion of people taking anticonvulsant medication for epilepsy control...

...Kitty Stewart; Jill Bradshaw; Julie Beadle-Brown Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish the effectiveness of Talking Mats® (TM) in evaluating service users’ experiences, and explore their views of the implementation of person-centred active support (PCAS). Design/methodology/approach...

...Jennifer A Rhodes; Sandy Toogood Purpose – Active support (AS) influences the way staff support people with intellectual disabilities to take part in everyday activities. Changes in work practices may affect job satisfaction. The impact of AS on job satisfaction has not, however, been widely...

... and multiple disabilities Intellectual disability Intensive Interaction Active support Person-centred approaches Intensive Interaction (Nind and Hewitt, 2001) is an approach designed to enhance the communication and social abilities specifically of people with profound intellectual disabilities...

... and the effectiveness of active support particularly the component known as positive interaction. There is much more to say about these issues but, given the limitations of space, I have focussed only on some key areas. No one would expect a tradesperson to do a good job without any tools or indeed if they did...

... in activities prior to and following the implementation of active support. Design/methodology/approach Data on staff assistance and resident engagement were gathered by direct observation across six pre‐test and post‐test 80‐minute sessions, using palmtop computers. Percentage of all non‐overlapping data...

... of Tom's story are discussed in the light of the Mansell Report. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Challenging behaviour Active support Positive behaviour support Behaviour analysis Intervention Medication withdrawal Learning disabilities Intellectual disabilities Feature Self...

...Sandy Toogood; Gemma Drury; Karen Gilsenan; Dave Parry; Kevin Roberts; Simon Sherriff Client engagement increases substantially when staff teams implement active support. The impact of active support on challenging behaviour is less clear. There are grounds for believing that active support...

... describes the process of implementing person‐centred active support in the Avenues Trust, and the findings from the evaluation of the implementation in six pilot residential services. Attention was paid both to training staff and to the motivational structures within the organisation. Both the quality...