Behaviour Support

What does Behaviour Support involve?

As every individual and family is different, everyone’s needs are very different.  For this reason, Resolve Psychology’s Behaviour Support service is highly individualised to your particular needs.

Cost: $180/per hour (GST inc) (this includes meetings, observations, and report writing), travel is only charged after the first 15 minutes.

Below is an outline of the general process you can expect:

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Initial Consultation

To identify what your needs may be and discuss the challenging behaviour/s in detail, we first meet for an initial consultation.  This consultation can last up to 90 minutes and we can be flexible where we meet (at your home or elsewhere in the community).  From this consultation we will begin to work on a plan with you about what support we will offer.

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Assessment

To best understand what is causing or maintaining the challenging behaviour, we will conduct a Functional Assessment (a comprehensive assessment that captures a wide range of information).  During this assessment phase we expand on the information obtained from the initial consultation through discussions with yourself, your family, school teachers, and other relevant professionals.  We can also do observations at home, school, or other settings where the challenging behaviour is occurring to get a better idea of what strategies or skills are needed.

To complete a comprehensive assessment, it usually requires 3 or 4 meetings of up to 90 minutes, plus observations.  This may change with the complexity of the issue but we will discuss any additional meetings with you beforehand.

Based on the information obtained from this assessment we will provide a written report outlining what we believe is maintaining the challenging behaviour and a summary of strategies and recommendations to help.

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Coaching/Intervention

Based on the outcome of the assessment and the recommendations we make in the report, we can meet with you to provide coaching and support with any strategies you wish to put in place.  During this phase we will provide the resources and coaching you require to implement the strategies we’ve recommended.

The length of our involvement is entirely up to you – we are happy to support you long-term with coaching or simply provide you with the information and resources you need to get started yourselves.

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