Challenging Behaviour (Children & Young People) Level 2

Challenging Behaviour (Children and Young People) aims to provide an understanding of how to improve the lives of individuals who display challenging behaviour, and how to counter negative behaviours with positive actions.

This course will help staff to improve the lives of people who display challenging behaviour as it is concerned with how staff can support children and young people to replace the behaviour with positive actions.

This course supports care workers by identifying what they can and cannot do, gives advice as to how they can remain safe, keep children and young people safe and act within organisational, local and national procedures.

This course will appeal to staff from a variety of social care settings.  Staff will be supporting children and young people who display behaviour considered to challenge, in settings ranging from residential care, respite care, day services, educational provision and the voluntary sector.

The programme is divided into 10 modules, all of which are core modules, each one concentrating on an important and specific aspect of challenging behaviour in children and young people.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand how to improve the lives of children and young people who display challenging behaviour
• Identify how to support service users to replace the negative behaviour with positive actions
• Understand how to remain safe, keep service users safe and act within organisational, local and national procedures.

COURSE TOPICS

1. What is behaviour?
2. What is challenging behaviour?
3. Assessment of challenging behaviour
4. Strategies to minimise effects
5. Physical intervention
6. Recording, monitoring, and record keeping
7. Challenging behaviour and mental health
8. Learning Disabilities
9. Sensory issues and autism
10. Legislation