Staff behaviours, views of people whose behaviour challenges by Tom Evans

Staff behaviours valued by service users: views of people whose behaviour challenges - presented by Tom Evans, Regional Lead: South, for BILD’s Centre for the Advancement of PBS, and Southdown Housing

Hearing the voices of people with learning disabilities and enabling them to have a say in the kind of support they receive is essential to providing good support.

Research suggests that staff support and interactions with people with intellectual disabilities are important for the individual’s quality of life and may also influence behaviours that challenge. To date, research has focused on professionals’ perceptions of the behaviours of good support staff.

In contrast, this study examines the perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities and behaviour that challenges. Seventeen people with intellectual disabilities and behaviour that challenges were interviewed about their views and described various positive staff behaviours as well as those that they did not value.

One of a series of webinars from the Centre for the Advancement of Positive Behaviour Support at BILD. First broadcast 8 November, 2016

The webinars were supported by the UK's Department of Health, Health Education England and Skills for Care.