ASSESSMENT TOOLS
CATS
Comprehensive Assessment of Triggers for behaviours of concern (CATS)
Psychosis
Helpful tips for dealing with psychosis.
FAST
Functional Assessment Screening Tool (FAST)
FAST
Functional Analysis Screening Tool (FAST)
FAST - 2
Another Functional Assessment Screening Tool (FAST)
Motivation-Assessment-Scale
The MAS is a questionnaire designed to identify those situations where an individual is likely to behave in specific ways.
NDIS Behaviour Support Plan Toolkit
Useful assessment tools and forms
Questions-about-Behavioral-Function-QABF-Google-Docs
Rate how often the student demonstrates the behaviors in situations where they might occur.
BEHAVIOUR PLANS
Aged care fact-sheet-behaviour-support-plans
A fact sheet for residential aged care providers.
Behaviour Support Plan Quality Evaluation Guide
This scoring guide measures the extent to which the key concepts in behavior plan development appear in the plan being evaluated with this instrument.
Behaviour Support Plan Quality Public Paper
This report provides a summary of results related to quality evaluations of 2,744 behaviour support plans (BSPs) submitted between 1 July 2020 and 31 December 2021.
Behaviour Support Plan Toolkit - January 2021
Helping with Developing quality behaviour support plans.
Initial Interview proforma PBSP
Helpful interviewing tips for when consulting parents.
Interim BSP Checklist
Requirements for Specialist Behaviour Support Providers
QLD resource on positive-behaviour-support-plan
Guidelines and model plan.
Waves WA BSP Toolkit
The purpose of this Toolkit is to provide easy to read 1 page documents for Support Workers. In this one you will find a basic Risk Assessment, Safety Plan, Escalation Profile, and Money Plan.
BEHAVIOURS OF CONCERN
Behaviour Help Sheet
Helpful tips about troublesome behaviours.
Behaviour Think Sheet
Visual aid - think sheet.
Challenging Behaviors Tool Kit
Autism and challenging behvaiours: Strategies and support.
Risk Behaviours and Consequence Fill-it-in Sheet
Chart to plan our risks.
HOARDING
Hoarding Ice-Breaker - English - V9 - May 2022
Empowering people to start a conversation with their GP/doctor, clinician, professional or other trusted person, and get practical advice, treatment, and support to feel better
Hoarding Resources
Useful websites.
Hoarding
Information booklet on hoarding.
SELF-HARM
AnDY-Self-Harm-resource
Alternatives to self-harm for young people.
SELF-HARM appendix-4-safety-plan-template
Identifying triggers, signs and useful activities.
Suicide Prevention Apps
List of useful apps.
DE-ESCALATION AND ESCALATION
De-escalating Conflict PP 2024
PowerPoint on De-escalating Conflict and Aggression
FBA
Functional-Behaviour-Assessment
Template.
NDIS
PB NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits 2024-25 v1.2
Pricing Arrangements valid from 1 July 2024
PBS-RP-in-the-NDIS-A6-booklet-FINAL
Positive Behaviour Support and Restrictive Practice in the NDIS
RESOURCES
Being Flexible With Dropping Anchor - eBook by Russ Harris - 2024
Let's take a look at a very flexible - and extremely adaptable - mindfulness practice called ‘Dropping Anchor’: a powerful intervention for disengagement, emotion dsyregulation, worrying, ruminating, panic attacks, dissociation, extreme fusion, emotional overwhelm, and a whole lot more.
Therapist's Checklist to Identify Intergenerational Trauma Impacts
Checklist resource.
Choice Point Image
ACT Choice Point Worksheet
Compendium of Resources for Positive Behaviour Support A guide for behaviour support practitioners - March 2019
A guide for behaviour support practitioners.
Complaint Feedback Policy - Procedure Checklist
Risk Incidents and Complaints Management. Complaint and Feedback Policy and Procedure Checklist.
Effective Behaviour Management Strategies for Australian Indigenous Students
Effective Behaviour Management Strategies for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students: A Literature Review
Example safety plan ideas
The identifies risks and recommended strategies aimed at minimising all identified risks.
FAST
Functional Assessment Screening Tool.
Handout-16-Function-Based-Intervention-Strategies
The tables provide possible intervention strategies to incorporate into a comprehensive behavior intervention plan based on the function of the problem behavior. Additional resources are listed at this end of this handout.
I-Am-Trying-To-Tell-You-Something-May-2019-PDF
PDF - Supporting adults who can behave in challenging ways.
New supervision template March 23
Clinical supervision record sheet.
Participant goal and outcome template
Planning table.
PB Psychosocial Disability Access Factsheet 1
Useful fact sheet.
PBS tips from NDIS Positive Behaviour Support course
Tips from NDIS
PBS Triggers & Responses document July 2023 de-identified
Identifying triggers and responses.
PBS-UK-Report-2022
Positive Behavioural Support in the UK: A State of the Nation Report
Positive Self Belief Basketball Instructions
We can write a positive self-belief we would like to link to things that happen for us during the day or the week.
Positive-behaviour-support
This information sheet provides an overview of the key elements of positive behaviour support and is part of a series of information sheets that have been developed to help everyone understand the ‘Authorisation of Restrictive Practices in Funded Disability Services Policy’ (the Policy) that applies in Western Australia from 1 December 2020.
RPS-Newsletter-October-2020
NSW Restrictive Practices Authorisation (RPA) News
SARC - About Me Form
This form tells health workers how they can make health appointments better.
SARC - CaLD Sensitive Practice Request
For people who have experienced trauma or upsetting experiences.
SARC - Sensitive Practice Request form
Form from Government of Western Australia North Metropolitan Health Service
State fines and participants
These providers provide different services that can be used to repay state fines e.g. if a client has transperth fines, they can engage in counselling which will remove the fines or reduce the amount owed.
Treatment Plan - Anxiety - 2023
10 Session plan with reference to CCI.
Visual Threat of Control
PDA info sheet.
WABS Practitioner Training Week 11 Handouts - 1 Slide Pages
PDA info sheet.
Visual Threat of Control
PDA info sheet.
WABSP training Wk 2 - RP page 18
Role of practitioner.
WABSPT R5 Wk 11 - Interim Response page 46
Summary: Restrictive Practice Regulation Process.
Fact-sheet-implementing-providers-facilitating-development-behaviour-support-plans
Implementing providers: Facilitating the development of behaviour support plans that include regulated restrictive practices
Fact-sheet-implementing-providers-facilitating-development-behaviour-support-plans
Implementing providers: Facilitating the development of behaviour support plans that include regulated restrictive practices.
NDIS practice-standards-and-quality-indicators
NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators - November 2021 - Version 4.
NDIS Glossary Key Terms and Acronyms
NDIS termoniology explained.
Participant Fact Sheet 2 - Understanding your rights
This fact sheet explains some of the participant rights when receiving specialist behaviour support services.
Position Statement - Practices that present high risk of harm to NDIS participants
Practices that present high risk of harm to NDIS participants.
Parenting Communication Resource
Hannah's front door resource
RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES
Restrictive Practices and Unregistered Providers
Info on RP and unregistered providers.
PBS- Restrictive Practice- PBS Responsibilities
Info on RP and unregistered providers.
Procedure-guidelines-for-authorisation-of-restrictive-practices-stage-two Page 7 PBS role
Info on RP and unregistered providers.
Regulated-restrictive-practice-guide-rrp-20200
Chemical restraint
Environmental restraint
Mechanical restraint
Physical restraint
Seclusion
NDIS Commission Portal Quick Reference Guide - Activating a Behaviour Support Plan and Lodging Evidence of Authorisation
This guide outlines how to use the NDIS Commission Portal to activate behaviour support plans and lodge evidence of authorisation.
NDIS Commission Portal Quick Reference Guide - How to Lodge a Behaviour Support Plan
Specialist Behaviour Support Providers: How to lodge a Behaviour Support Plan
RISK ASSESSMENT
QLD resource on positive-behaviour-support-plan
Guidelines and model plan.
Managing-my-reportable-incidents
Quick Reference Guide – Reportable Incidents.
Immediate-notification-of-an-incident
Quick Reference Guide – Immediate Notification of Incidents.
5-day-notification-form
Quick Reference Guide – 5-day notification form.
WEBSITES
AMAZING WEBSITE WITH INFO ON BEHAVIOUR
Website links.
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