There are two aspects to this category. One is managing behaviours by helping individuals to understand what they do and how to put strategies into place to allow people to cope with situations they find challenging. The other is making sure those dealing with challenging needs are managing and coping themselves with strategies that allow everyone to have Improved Life Outcomes.

Challenging behaviours are what they are, challenging, for the individual and everyone else. Understanding the triggers is the first step, creating a place from which to develop strategies. Understanding what purpose behaviours serve and replacing them with alternatives help. Alongside strategies the individual needs to recognise and learn about emotions and social behaviours.

Like with anything we take on in life, if we want to achieve something and our current strategy isn’t working then rather than give up we need to try things differently. Often a resource needs to be adapted to suit the individual and the situation. Fit the resource to the individual or situation not the individual or situation to the resource.

Remember a diagnosis is not an excuse for rudeness. It’s an excuse for why the situation is difficult for an individual to understand and control on their own and a reason why we need to help.

Everyone is entitled to reach their full potential. That includes carers as well as individuals with high needs. We can reach our full potential by having dreams, setting goals, working in small chunks towards those goals. Every little bit achieved is a step closer to your dream. Sometimes life is one step forward and three back but if we’re persistent enough we can surprise ourselves with what we can achieve. The same goes for those we work with and assist.

In this category, you will find products such as angry meters, behaviour charts, functional analysis forms etc as well as motivational and goal setting resources. For communication resources, visuals or education resources check out the other shop categories on the shop page.