Reactive strategies would be training reviews, formulation meetings, reviews or care plans/risk assessments and support every day.
It is important to identify patterns of behaviours and triggers. So that more proactive strategies can be in place and to enable staff to know what causes the behaviour. This enables staff to react quickly and to prevent needing to use a proactive stratergy.It is important to use a person centred approach when seeing proactive strategies as it is directly used for one individual.
Reinforcing positive behaviour will encourage an individual to seek attention for positive reasons rather than negative ones. It can also reinforce an individual’s self esteem and confidence in getting praise and lead them to behave positive more often. A productive strategy is in place for a known behaviour, a reactive strategy will be used later as you are already reacting to a situation and this can cause more distress and upheaval to an individual. This is due to reactive strategies being trial and