New surveys look at supported decision-making in behavioural support
29/07/2024
What you need to know
- Set up last year, the Right Direction Project looks at ways to strengthen the connections between participant and providers in behaviour support.
- As part of the project, researchers from the University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne are surveying professionals and workers in the field about how people with disability and their families participate in the behaviour support process.
- Behaviour support professionals and implementing providers should complete the anonymous online surveys before 30 August.
University researchers from the Right Direction Project, which is looking into how people with disability and their families participate in behaviour support, are surveying behaviour support professionals and providers. NDS encourages professionals and workers in this field to complete the 30-minute anonymous survey by the 30 August deadline.
The research follows an NDIS Commission audit in August 2022 of the quality of Behaviour Support Plans. Since then, several pieces of work have been published on good practice. This includes Deciding with Support, which promotes supporting decision-making in positive behaviour support, Promoting Positive Behaviour Support Practice, which gives introductory information about PBS, and Developing Quality Behaviour Support, a collection of learning resources and a quality assurance tool for practitioners.
The Right Direction Project continues this work to understand how people with disability and their families are supported in the behaviour support planning process. From this they will develop resources for good practice.
Researchers from the University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne invite service providers to complete one of two surveys. The first survey is for NDIS behaviour support practitioners and the second is for other workers who support people who have behaviour support plans.
NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioners
This anonymous online survey for Behaviour Support Practitioners consists of:
- short responses to open-ended questions outlining their experiences — these can be written or audio-recorded
- tick-box questions that require one or several options to be chosen.
It should take about 30 minutes to complete.
Disability staff members — implementing providers
Service managers, team leaders and disability support workers who have worked with NDIS participants with behaviour support plans can complete this anonymous online survey. The survey consists of:
- short responses to open-ended questions outlining their experiences — these can be written or audio-recorded
- tick-box questions that require one or several options to be chosen.
The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete.
Both surveys close on 30 August.