Behavioural Intervention

Question 1

Define challenging behaviour

Answer 1

Behaviour that is:
- Disruptive
- Makes others uncomfortable
- Against the rules of community living
- Safety risk to self or others
- Distresses the client
- Is not in the client’s best interest

Question 2

What are the basic cues and prompts in behaviour analysis?

Answer 2

• Prompting - proving a cue to help illicit behavour
• Fading - systematic and gradual removal of prompting
• Shaping - reinforcement of gradual approximations to target behaviour
• Chaining - teaching a sequence of steps
• Generalisation - reducing a behaviours dependence on the conditions under which it was learned

Question 3

What are the three stages of behavioural conditioning

Answer 3

Antecedent - the preceding event

Behaviour - operationally defined occurrence

Consequent - the reinforcing or punishing consequent event that affects future rate, duration and intensity of behaviour

Question 4

What does attachment theory say about the nature of discipline?

Answer 4

When adaptive behaviours become ineffective in regulating proximity with the caregiver, maladaptive strategies will emerge. Discipline should be ‘attachment neutral’ and appropriate behaviour should be ‘attachment rich’, so as to not threaten the underlying attachment.