Clinical perspectives on delivering a Positive Behaviour Support intervention for challenging behaviours following acquired brain injury.

Challenging behaviours are distressing sequelae for people with acquired brain injury (ABI) and their families. Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is a collaborative approach focussing on improving quality of life for individuals with ABI presenting with challenging behaviours. This qualitative study explored clinicians' experiences of a 12-month intervention (PBS+PLUS) for adults with ABI and their family/carers.

Positive behaviour support for adults with acquired brain injury and challenging behaviour: A randomised controlled trial.

Background: Challenging behaviours are common and disabling consequences of acquired brain injury (ABI), causing stress for close-others and disrupting community integration. Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) interventions have support from case studies as a means of reducing these behaviours, but controlled trials are lacking.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate, with a randomised waitlist-controlled trial, the efficacy of a 12-month PBS intervention, termed PBS+PLUS, in reducing challenging behaviours after ABI.

Individualized goal attainment scaling during a trial of positive behaviour support in adults with acquired brain injury.

Background: Challenging behaviours after acquired brain injury (ABI) cause distress and reduce community participation. Evidence-based and effective interventions are needed. Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) interventions, such as PBS + PLUS, are person-driven and context-sensitive approaches which aim to improve quality of life and enhance behavioural self-regulation.

"I've never been positive … I am now": Participant perspectives of a Positive Behaviour Support intervention (PBS + PLUS) for community-living individuals with ABI and their close others.

Challenging behaviours are common following moderate to severe acquired brain injury (ABI). These behaviours cause relationship and community participation difficulties and are a significant source of stress for many individuals with ABI and their close others (COs). A Positive Behaviour Support intervention, PBS + PLUS, was implemented to assist individuals with ABI to collaboratively build meaningful lives and self-regulate their behaviour.

Positive behaviour support for challenging behaviour after acquired brain injury: An introduction to PBS + PLUS and three case studies.

Challenging behaviours are a common and distressing consequence of acquired brain injury (ABI). There are no evidence-based guidelines for managing challenging behaviours after ABI, leaving clinicians with few resources to guide practice. Findings from case studies and single-subject experimental designs support the use of positive behaviour support (PBS) interventions for challenging behaviour post-ABI.