Welcome to Behavioural Support Strategies
Behavioural Support Strategies (BSS) is a BILD accredited organisation which provides training across the Social and Health Care Sector in Scotland and more recently Northern Ireland.
Throughout Health and Social Care and Education settings the interface between staff and service users can create situations which service users and service providers find challenging and difficult to manage and which in some instances result in challenging and sometimes violent behaviours.
Challenging Behaviour is defined by Emerson as:
"Culturally abnormal behaviour(s) of such an intensity frequency or duration that the physical safety of the person or others is likely to be placed in serious jeopardy, or behaviour that is likely to seriously limit the use of or result in the person being denied access to ordinary community facilities" (Emerson, 1995)
Behavioural Support Strategies offers service providers a humanistic holistic approach in dealing with the problems associated with challenging behaviour.
Latest News
New high for BSS
BSS chosen as pilot organisation for new accreditation scheme. More info to follow soon.
September 2009BSS Event to be held in May 2010
Details coming soon... check back regularly.
September 2009BSS Spring Newsletter
The Spring newsletter is now available. If you'd like to receive a copy contact the BSS Team.
December 2008BSS Newsletter December 2008
BSS has had a busy year as ever, during the Instructor Re-certification courses we asked for feedback which showed that most of you would like us to find a way of sharing this information with you all and so here it is, the first, in a hopefully regular, series of newsletters. Let us know if you would like to contribute information or have any comments.
The BSS Practice Advisory Committee (PAC) are a group which guide the working practice of the BSS staff, agree policies and procedures, deal with enquiries, and ratifies the decisions of the Instructor Trainer group to support the continued development of the BSS approach.
The BSS programme promotes the whole person approach and aims to provide a framework for the use of proactive support for the management of behaviours that challenge rather than reactive with the use of physical interventions being the very last resort.
To ensure that BSS offer appropriate support to commissioning organisations, we ask that your organisation agrees and signs up to a working agreement. This details BSS' expectations of your organisation and BSS responsibilities.
