The Care Quality Commission's 2020 report 'Out of Sight — Who Cares?' offered a stark indictment of how autistic people and individuals with learning disabilities have been treated within institutional and residential care systems. The report documented systemic use of restraint, seclusion, and segregation as default responses to challenging behavior — practices that reflect a fundamental failure of behavioral understanding and a profound violation of the rights of the individuals subjected to them.
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Join Free →A recent Care Quality Commission Report 'Out of Sight - Who Cares?' provides a harrowing insight into the way autistic people and those with a learning disability are 'impacted by system that views them, not as individuals, but as a condition or a collection of negative behaviours. The response to this has often been to restrain, seclude or segregate them.' (CQC, 2020, pg. 3). It is our experience that limited insight into behaviour technology may often have worsened this condition - with poorly designed 'behaviour' interventions leading to both the strengthening of maladaptive behaviours and the perception that 'nothing can be done' to provide effective support. Thankfully - this is NOT the case. Compassionately designed, well-led and clinically supervised behavioural approaches play a key role in improving the lives of individuals who have otherwise slipped through the cracks. This talk will discuss examples of how behaviour analysis has been evidenced to support community-based placements for individuals labelled with severely complex and/or challenging behaviour, improving their quality of lives and protecting their rights to effective treatment.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
Tia first learned about behaviour analysis whilst working on a summer camp in New York. She was a law student at the time but, when summer camp was over, she knew her future working with people with autism.Tia has an MSc in Developmental Psychology and an MSc in Autism. In 2012, she moved to Belfast to start her PhD in Behaviour Analysis and Autism, focusing on the issue of behavioural safety, specifically behaviour-based water safety, which she completed in 2018.During this time, Tia worked as the National Autism Advisor for a large social care provider, the manager of a PBS team operating across Scotland and the North of England, and now as a founding director of PBS UK who provide behavioural support to individuals with complex or challenging behaviour and organisations involved in their care across the UK. She has retained a love for research and is peer-reviewer and published journal author.Dr Tia Martin is the co-founding director of PBS UK and an honorary scholar with Queen’s University Belfast. She primarily works with young people and adults with intellectual disabilities who are often also autistic. Her current research interests include Positive Behavioural Support in the UK context as well the impact of language on the use of, or perceived acceptability of restrictive practices. Tia lives in Scotland with her husband, two children and her French Bulldog Brie!
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All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.