Challenging Behaviour Training

Group Training For Support Workers | 3 Hour Course For Up To Fifteen learners

This Challenging Behaviour course is designed to give healthcare care workers more of an understanding into Challenging Behaviour and how to support an individual presenting with such behaviours.

This Challenging Behaviour training course will help learners benefit from having knowledge of how to recognise the signs and symptoms of challenging behaviour within their working environment. 

The course will help learners identify causes and how to deal with situations using simple interventions in difficult and potentially volatile situations.

Course Content

• Theories and function of behaviour
• Why do people behave as they do?
• What is ‘challenging’ behaviour?
• How to motivate individuals to change behaviour
• Preventing challenging behaviour
• Strategies for managing challenging behaviour
• Challenging our own assumptions about people and their behaviour
• To highlight the need for vigilance when working with clients with challenging behaviour
• Define challenging behaviour
• Follow guidelines in the workplace dealing with challenging behaviour
• Defusing and De-escalation techniques
• Work safely with service users who show signs of challenging behaviour

Challenging Behaviour Course Assessment and Certification

There will be continuous tutor assessment, there is no final examination. 

Those students who complete the course and are deemed to have reached the required standard will be awarded a certificate that is valid for 3 years.

This course is often booked with the following courses:

• Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Autism Awareness
• Challenging Behaviour and Breakaway Techniques Training
• Conflict Management
• Mental Capacity Act & Deprivation of Liberties Safeguarding (MCA & DoLS)
• Professional Boundaries
• Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults