- The RAID® Course for working with Challenging Behavior -

The RAID^® Course aims:

• A clear, positive, philosophy and technique for working effectively with disturbed and challenging behaviours.

• Provides interventions with a clear sense of purpose, and benefits to everybody.
• Shows how reinforcing key aspects of a client's behaviour can eliminate disturbed and challenging behaviours.
• Demonstrates how to reinforce behaviour effectively.
• How to make social reinforcement work. How to design formalised yet 'friendly' reinforcement systems. Avoiding reinforcement 'traps'.
• Knowing the 4 key types of appropriate behaviours, and how to spot them.
• Why we are best to play down disruptive behaviour.
• Why punishment usually doesn't work.
• What to do when disruptive behaviour cannot be ignored. For example, when it is damaging or life-threatening to other clients or staff, crucial non-physical interventions.
• How to avoid people 'pushing against us' when we are trying to influence them and how to guide their behaviour for the better - for their benefit and for the benefit of those around them.
• How good rules or 'boundaries' for behaviour are productive and energising while bad ones are a short-cut to endless trouble. What makes the difference between good and bad.
• What to do when clients exhibit so many challenging behaviours that it is difficult to know where to start.
• What to do when it seems that some sort of punishment is unavoidable.
• How to create and establish a proper RAID Care Plan that you and your colleagues can use.

In 3-days you will cover a great deal:

• Why it is so important to have 'a philosophy of care'. Why (a) punishment and (b) extinction don't work. How the RAID^® approach is radically different from both the above.

• What is meant by... 'routine green behaviour'? ... 'extra-ordinary green behaviour'? and ... behaviour that is 'green, but not quite the shade of green I had in mind'? Why it is important to know.
• When a professional says they have 'tried everything' with a client, what powerful category of influence have they usually failed to try?
• How some professionals discourage green behaviour when they think they are encouraging it.
• How to influence people at the deepest levels of their brain.
• Why working on clients' problems often results in exaggerating those problems, and what to do instead.
• Thousands of people are victims of 'the punishment spiral'. How does this come about and how can we reverse the spiral?
• How to have clients behave to their best limits, without necessarily even addressing their disturbed and challenging behaviour directly!
• What's so special about you that makes you good to work with disturbed and challenging behaviour. There is an answer!
• Rules and 'boundaries' are an important, if rather sterile concept. How can you bring them to life in a way that both clients and professionals welcome?
• What makes the difference between standard criticism and constructive criticism, and how can we keep our criticism constantly constructive and, therefore, effective?
• Why is this statement probably untrue and how should we capitalise on the real truth of the situation: "We find that whenever Sue harms herself she's had an argument with her boyfriend just before: every time they have an argument, she harms herself."?
• What should we do when we come across clients who exhibit so little appropriate behaviour that they are very difficult to work with?
• We need to balance the client's past, present and future. But - if you're working with disturbed and challenging behaviour - which is most important? Why? How can you build on that?
• Often, the disturbed and challenging behaviour is to communicate something. How can we tell what, and how should we respond then? Possibly more important, what should we not do?
• What other functions may the behaviour be serving? "The challenging behaviour is not the problem, it is the patient's solution; the real problem is to find a better solution."
• What can you do when disturbed and challenging behaviour happens? We have two good options, but it's important to chose the right one!
• Practise what you preach. How to RAID^® yourself.
• Disturbed and challenging behaviour is normally very wearing both for the client and for the professional. How to cope with the 'feelings' side of things.
• What your team can do to immediately transform its impact.

What The RAID^® Course will do for you:

• You will have a clear philosophy on how to view disturbed and challenging behaviour. A philosophy which allows you to intervene positively and effectively to minimise its occurrence.

• You will see how that philosophy applies not just in your work, but in your private life too. After all, it is a philosophy, not just a technique.
• You will gain a clearer perspective on what you already do, seeing more clearly why some actions you take work, and others don't.
• You will see that it is possible to have a positive approach to working with disturbed and challenging behaviour, an approach which is both clear and effective.
• You will know how to work out the function of problem behaviour, and to help find a better way of achieving that same function.
• You will be better at reinforcing others, you will be more aware of the positive actions and traits they display.
• You will know why consideration of the future is so important in general, and especially in this area.
• You will be able to ask positive, constructive questions, ones which have answers which nurture and develop people rather than focusing on their 'problems'.
• You will know when an issue needs addressing, and be better at addressing it.
• You will be able to use specific techniques for resolving dangerous or threatening situations.
• You will be able to construct a powerful positive RAID Care Plan, and put it into practice.

Bookings:

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