Restrictive Interventions

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Legislation, frameworks codes of practice and policies are applied to my working practice. This enables myself and others to deal support and cope with behaviours as all these contain information. Restrictive interventions is defined as any intervention that is used to restrict the rights and freedom of movement of a person this includes physical restraint, involving the use of chemical restraint, mechanical restraint or seclusion. Restrictive interventions may not be used in any form of punishment but may be used to protect another resident from any harm. If restrictive interventions have been used to any incidents the person in charge will need to be informed of this, this would usually be senior or home manager. The least restrictive principal …show more content…
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