Behaviour Support - Sarah Wakeling

Sarah is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst and has a Masters degree from the Tizard Centre in Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviour. Since qualifying Sarah has provided expert services through Positive Behaviour Support Consultancy.

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Experience

Sarah develops clinical interventions to support people with complex challenging behaviours and learning disabilities, specialising in supporting adults on the autistic spectrum and people with additional mental health needs. Sarah worked as a Behaviour Consultant for the Institute of Applied Behaviour Analysis in California where she developed her philosophy of positive behaviour support. www.IABA.com

In addition to clinical work Sarah has provided training in the areas of positive person-centred behavioural support and carrying out audits and service evaluations using total quality assurance systems for numerous organisations in the UK.

Clinical Philosophy

Sarah’s focus is on decreasing challenging behaviour and increasing positive behaviour by adopting a person centred positive support philosophy. Sarah uses non-aversive positive behavioural strategies to teach skills and change behaviour.

Sarah believes all service users, including those with challenging needs, should be supported utilising a positive approach to live a high a quality of life. This includes ensuring service users access community activities and develop new skills to increase their independence.

Sarah encourages collaborative working with all people in a service user’s support network, including families, carers and professionals.

Role in White Leaf Care

Sarah has provided her expertise from the point of inception and has been involved in the development of the philosophy of the organisation and has written our challenging behaviour policies and procedures.

Sarah provides staff training to ensure the philosophy of positive behaviour support underpins all our work and staff achieve the competencies required to meet our service users’ needs, which includes:

  • Understanding challenging behaviour from a positive behaviour support perspective
  • Proactive and reactive strategies to manage challenging behaviour
  • Emergency management strategies
  • Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Sarah also conducts functional behavioural assessments which helps to understand service users’ needs. Sarah will then develop an individualised behaviour support plan which includes proactive and reactive strategies to support the service user to achieve the highest quality of life.

Professional Memberships

Sarah is a member of the following professional groups:

Sarah is certified by and governed by the Behaviour Analyst Certification Board www.BACB.com

Please visit www.PBSConsultancy.net for further information.

‘Behaviour analysis is the treatment of choice for behaviour problems associated with learning disability, autism-spectrum disorders and other disorders.’

(Association for Behaviour Analysis International).