Supporting Positive Behaviour Quiz

How do health and social care workers support behaviour that challenges?

• By isolating the individual and restricting their movements
• By ignoring the behaviour and hoping it resolves on its own

• By providing individual person-centred care and support. By understanding the causes, developing care plans, providing interventions, collaborating with teams, and monitoring effectiveness.

• By using physical restraints to control the behaviour

How do schools support behaviour that challenges?

• Schools support behaviour that challenges through Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports (PBIS), individualised plans, counselling, safe environment, and community collaboration.

• Schools support behaviour that challenges through punishment and exclusion
• Schools support behaviour that challenges by ignoring the issue
• Schools support behaviour that challenges by blaming the student

Which of the following is an example of a proactive strategy in behaviour that challenges?

• Blaming others for the behaviour

• Ignoring the behaviour and hoping it goes away

• Reacting impulsively without considering consequences
• Provide a calm and soothing environment

Which of the following is an example of a reactive strategy in behaviour that challenges?

• Ignoring the behaviour

• Yelling when feeling frustrated
• Reducing expectations to avoid overwhelm

• Increasing expectations

What is a key feature of person-centred approaches?

• Applying the same strategy to everyone.

• Putting the individual at the centre of their care

• Ignoring individual differences.

• Focusing only on group behaviour.

How does the NHS support behaviour that challenges?

• Through a multi-disciplinary approach involving professionals such as psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, and social workers.
• Through physical therapy only
• By ignoring the behaviour

• By providing financial incentives

What is the main goal of proactive strategies in behaviour that challenges?

• To encourage challenging behaviours

• To react to challenging behaviours after they occur

• To ignore challenging behaviours

• To prevent challenging behaviours from occurring by teaching the individual more appropriate ways of seeking attention and provide them with chances to practice and develop appropriate behaviour.

What is the main goal of reactive strategies in behaviour that challenges?

• To ignore challenging behaviour

• To reward challenging behaviour

• To respond to challenging behaviour after it has occurred. It aims to make the behaviour undesirable to the individual and should be done early to prevent the challenging behaviour from escalating.

• To prevent challenging behaviour from occurring