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NDIS Practice Alerts

Practice alerts are issued by the NDIS Commission to draw attention to issues that impact people with a disability disproportionately.

You can see all the practice alerts via this link, current practice alerts with particular relevance to biopsychosocial influences on behaviour are below.

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Behaviour Support Guides

There are a variety of guides that have been produced to explain different areas of behaviour support under the NDIS legislation. The majority of practice guides specific to behaviour support can be found via this link. Others that are more challenging to locate are collated below.

Today we celebrate the International Day of Sign Languages that was set by the UN to raise awareness of the importance of sign language.​​​​​​​​ -​​​​​​​​ -​​​​​​​​ -​​​​​​​​ #SignLanguage #InternationalDayOfSignLanguage #Language #Equality
Restrictive practices are practices or interventions that restrict a participants rights or freedom of movement. It is especially important to monitor and review restrictive practices to ensure that that least restrictive interventions are used and m
People who have difficulty communicating or understanding their responses to situations can sometimes develop ways of coping and trying to get their needs met. A challenging behaviour is any behaviour that causes stress, worry, risk of or actual harm
Focussing on tweens and teens and their place in society, World Youth Day celebrates the qualities of young people and recognises the challenges they may face.​​​​​​​​ -​​​​​​​​ -​​​​​​​​ -​​​​​​​​ #LookAfterYourself #LookAfterEachOther
Today is International Day of Friendship. It was originally created with the idea that friendship between peoples, countries, cultures and individuals can inspire peace efforts and build bridges between communities.​​​​​​​​ -​​​​​​​​ -​​​​​​​​ -​​​​​
This was our very first blog post! Published a few years ago, this quick 2 minute read explores a little more deeply what Positive Behaviour Support actually is.​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ www.miaonline.co/blog/2020/9/3/what-is-positive-behaviour-support ​​​​​
This week has been NAIDOC week and the theme this year is Get up, Stand up, Show up. ​​​​​​​​ This is a week to celebrate elders past who have led and driven change and to stand together as we look forward to how we can support first nations people t
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How to hook up with a supervisor that gets you.
How to hook up with a supervisor that gets you.

Supervision is a structured professional relationship where you process cases, strengthen your clinical reasoning, improve your behaviour support skills, and protect your wellbeing and your clients’ dignity. It’s not a performance review. It’s not therapy. And it’s definitely not supposed to be a one-way lecture from someone who last worked clinically during the era of dial-up internet.

What are neurodivergent affirming supports
What are neurodivergent affirming supports

What are neurodivergent affirming supports?

What is Positive Behaviour Support?
What is Positive Behaviour Support?

Positive Behaviour Support is a person centred approach used to assist in managing situations where challenging behaviours may occur or be at risk of occurring. The approach involves the whole support team; support workers, parents or significant others and therapists. Positive Behaviour Support is about creating an environment where an individual can be supported to communicate their needs in a positive and safe way.

Are you operating in the present, past or future?
Are you operating in the present, past or future?

…we get distracted, focused on other things, do mundane tasks on autopilot, basically live in the future or the past, but not the present. Our lives and worlds are full of actions. We are taught at a young age the value of multi-tasking, planning for the future and goal setting. Buddhist teaching refer to the monkey mind, a mind that leaps from thought to thought, idea to idea, unsettled, restless and easily distracted.

3 tips to avoid burnout
3 tips to avoid burnout

Burnout is a psychological syndrome characterised by overwhelming exhaustion, feelings of frustration, anger and cynicism and a sense of ineffectiveness and failure. The experience impacts social, personal and work functioning. So how do you recognise it and how do you prevent it?

4 ways to improve your emotional intelligence
4 ways to improve your emotional intelligence

A recent study  of health professionals found a direct correlation between emotional intelligence scores and well-being indicators like life satisfaction and happiness. The researchers “suggest an underlying process by which high emotional intelligence may increase well-being.... by reducing the experience of stress.” Emotional intelligence has also been linked to leadership effectiveness and improved personal relationships, because people with higher emotional intelligence have the ability to be self and socially aware.

Mindfulness saved my bacon..... more then once
Mindfulness saved my bacon..... more then once

“Holy SHIT, holy SHIT, holy SHIT”

My fight or flight response was fully activated – adrenaline was making my voice and hands shake, I was in charge, I did not have the luxury of loosing my shit, I was standing in my pajamas in front of 40 amazing people who had responded to my search and rescue horn without a single clue what to do. 

Fortunately I had learnt many years earlier the power of mindfulness and most importantly mindfulness of breath.   The ability to quite your panicked self talk and focus your mind on the task at hand, all by taking a slow grounding breath. 

Are you feeling stressed?
Are you feeling stressed?

All that is required to elicit a stress reaction in the body is the perception of potential harm, which explains why stress is such a universal human malady today.

So what can you do

As it turns out, a lot of the common sense advice you've been given over the years – is right. 

Protecting the vulnerable from climate change
Protecting the vulnerable from climate change

Does climate change really have an impact on health? Would we really notice if the earth’s temperature rose by 1°C? These were questions registered nurse Jennifer Wressell asked herself, not realising the links between climate change and the impacts on her practice. Involvement in a climate forum exposed her to statistics about the impact of climate on health outcomes, particularly of the vulnerable. She reports here on how healthcare practitioners can make a difference.

Read more: http://hospitalhealth.com.au/content/facility-admin/article/protecting-the-vulnerable-from-climate-change-1233190804#ixzz5XTxoCVdC

A week of meditation
A week of meditation

Mindfulness training is a tool that can reestablish the links between thinking, feeling and doing, so that you are far more effective and productive.

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