Behaviour is the outcome — not the problem. PBS addresses the inputs.
Positive Behaviour Support is built on a fundamental insight: behaviours of concern do not occur randomly. Every behaviour serves a function — it is communicating something, responding to something, or attempting to meet a need. Our job as BSP practitioners is to understand what that function is.
The diagram shows how the brain receives inputs — from environment, sensory experience, history, communication capacity, and unmet needs — and produces behaviour as an output. Standard approaches try to change the output. PBS changes the inputs.
This is why our assessments are thorough, our plans are holistic, and our strategies are targeted at the real drivers of behaviour — not the surface presentation alone.
Intake, Consent & Initial Stakeholder Meeting
Every engagement begins with a thorough, person-centred intake process. Before any assessment or planning begins, we take the time to properly understand the participant, their context, and the people around them.
Informed consent is not a form — it is an ongoing conversation. We explain what we do, how we work, what participants and families can expect, and what their rights are at every stage of the engagement. We obtain consent from the participant and/or their guardian before any assessment activity begins.
Interim Behaviour Support Plan
Where a participant requires immediate strategies — particularly where restrictive practices are already in use or behaviours pose a risk of harm — we develop an Interim Behaviour Support Plan (IBSP) as a priority within the first month of engagement.
The IBSP is a working document, not a final solution. It provides the participant's support team with safe, practical, evidence-informed strategies to implement immediately while the comprehensive functional behaviour assessment is underway.
Functional Behaviour Assessment
The Functional Behaviour Assessment (FBA) is the cornerstone of all behaviour support practice. It is the rigorous, systematic process through which we identify the function of behaviours of concern — what they communicate, what triggers them, what maintains them, and what conditions make them more or less likely to occur.
Our FBAs draw on multiple methods across multiple settings and informants. We do not conduct assessments from a desk — we observe the participant in their natural environments, we interview the people who know them best, and we review all available records before forming any hypothesis.
Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plan
The Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plan (CBSP) is the central deliverable of specialist behaviour support practice. It is built directly from the findings of the Functional Behaviour Assessment and translates those findings into clear, practical, evidence-based strategies for everyone in the participant's life.
A CBSP is not a generic template — it is a personalised document built around this participant, their behaviours, their environment, and the people who support them. It must be co-developed with the participant and their network, and it must make sense to the people who will implement it every day.
Restrictive Practice Authorisation & Oversight
Restrictive practices are among the most serious and tightly regulated aspects of NDIS behaviour support. Where a participant's behaviour of concern places themselves or others at risk of harm, a regulated restrictive practice may be included in the BSP — but only as a last resort, only with proper authorisation, and always with a clear plan to reduce and eliminate it.
As the registered specialist behaviour support provider, Badr Behaviour Support takes full responsibility for the authorisation, documentation, reporting, and oversight of all restrictive practices in our participants' plans.
Involuntary confinement of a person in a room or area from which they cannot freely exit. Requires state/territory authorisation and stringent documentation.
Use of medication primarily to influence behaviour rather than to treat a medical condition. Requires medical oversight, consent, and authorisation.
Use of a device to restrict free movement of a body part. Must be prescribed and authorised; reviewed regularly for reduction.
Use of physical force to restrict movement. Permitted only in emergency and must not be part of a routine plan without authorisation and oversight.
Restricting access to certain environments, items, or activities. Must be the least restrictive option available and regularly reviewed.
Every plan we write includes a clear, time-bound reduction pathway. Restrictive practices are never a permanent strategy — they are a temporary measure while positive strategies take hold.
Carer & Support Worker Training
The best behaviour support plan in the world is worthless if it is not implemented consistently. Training is not a box to tick — it is the bridge between the plan and the participant's actual lived experience.
Badr Behaviour Support provides structured, practical, hands-on training for every member of the participant's support team — including family members, carers, support workers, and any other providers involved in implementing the plan. Training is tailored to each participant's plan, not a generic behaviour management course.
BSP Reviews, Monitoring & NDIS Progress Reports
A BSP is not a static document — it is a living tool that must be reviewed, adjusted, and refined as the participant changes, strategies are implemented, and new information emerges. Regular review is not optional; it is a requirement under the NDIS Rules.
Badr Behaviour Support maintains active oversight of every plan we have developed — monitoring implementation, reviewing data, consulting with the support team, and updating strategies when the evidence indicates it is needed.