Positive Behavioural Support (PBS)

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Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) is a new applied science by applying the education and system procedures to build behaviour repertoire and arrange people environment in order to encourage quality of life, and reduce the challenging behaviour. PBS was originally created within the area of developmental disabilities and based on three major sources: Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), normalization, and person-centred values (Carr et al., 2002). The primary goal of the PBS is to change and improve the individual’s lifestyle which relate with stakeholders (such as parents, teachers, or employees) (Kincaid, & Fox, 2002; Carr et al., 2002). Moreover, the PBS combines sets of value, sets of effective behaviour principles and sets of technology …show more content…

Social validity was defined like a social importance of behavioural intervention of the ABA, including the people desirability of the interventions, implementing the appropriate intervention with each context, creating meaningful differences outcomes from effective intervention for each people in difference setting, and the practicality of the intervention. However, the PBS more concern about how to create effective plans to decrease the problem behaviour in order to change the complex individual’s lifestyle and quality of life. The PBS concern about individual’s value rather than the ABA in these …show more content…

The person-centred values of the PBS need the stakeholder participation as behaviour change agents and persons who are affected in certain change, such as families and professional carers. Thus, the stakeholders should be prior determined, who their well-being and behaviour connect to the challenging behaviour development. The stakeholders are the kind of intervention implementers; trainer and supporter to staff and family carers, and also deliver the durable changes feature of the PBS. For instance, interactive training, these trainings provide a staff support to enhance the improvement of client quality of life. According to the training for each staff, Johnston et al., (2006) mentioned that the PBS training will offer the intervention models for the staffs who lack of formal training which contrast with ABA that provide the formal training by using the multi-tiered approaches for people who lack the skills of providing guidance, giving assistant and

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