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<strong>Positive</strong> behaviour support: Getting it right from the start - Facilitators reference manual 21<br />
Complete the attitude questionnaire and begin to examine how some <strong>of</strong> your attitudes may<br />
be impacting on your ability to provide effective support to people who show behaviours <strong>of</strong><br />
concern.<br />
The attitude questionnaire<br />
“Without the right attitude, no matter how good the behaviour support plan looks on paper,<br />
it won’t work.”<br />
Negative attitudes block people’s ability to carry out a positive behaviour support genuinely and<br />
with integrity. The following set <strong>of</strong> questions will help you to analyse your own attitudes. Each<br />
<strong>of</strong> them is about the things you actually do and may give you insight into your own underlying<br />
attitudes.<br />
1. Do you introduce the person to visitors?<br />
2. Do you talk in front <strong>of</strong> the person about them as though they can’t hear or<br />
understand what you’re saying?<br />
3. Where possible, do you <strong>of</strong>fer choices to the person in a way that is<br />
meaningful?<br />
4. Do you search for enjoyable, stimulating and fulfilling things for the person<br />
to be involved in that is based on their preferences?<br />
5. Do you include the person in decision making about the things that have<br />
an impact on their lives?<br />
6. Do you strive to actively support the person in the flow <strong>of</strong> activities that<br />
happen every day?<br />
7. Do you talk to the person with the same level <strong>of</strong> respect you show towards<br />
people without a disability?<br />
8. Are you polite in the way you talk with the person?<br />
9. Do you knock on the door <strong>of</strong> the person’s room before entering?<br />
10. Do you ensure the person is provided with privacy when helping them with<br />
personal care activities?<br />
11. When visitors come to the house do you take them on through the house,<br />
including the person’s bedroom?<br />
12. Do you think about how the person might be feeling and acting on these<br />
thoughts? (do you wonder whether they are cold or hot? Disappointed?<br />
Angry? Sad? Jealous? Confused? Unwell? Scared?)<br />
13. Do you <strong>of</strong>ten wonder what it must be like to live in a shared supported<br />
accommodation?<br />
14. Do you ever put yourself in the person’s shoes or try to imagine the world<br />
through their eyes?<br />
Yes No Sometimes
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