Behaviour Support and Human Rights

Written By Joseph Bowers

Behaviour Support does not exist in a vacuum.

All behaviour support happens in familial, social, community, legal, legislative national, and international policy contexts.

Simple but potent sign on a street post says it all - every human has rights.

Key Human Rights

Here are a few of the basic human rights involved in behaviour support practice.

These touch on relationships in families, communities, and nations. These come directly out of international, national, and state based policy and practice standards.

Every person has the right to:

  • Dignity and respect

  • Live in and be part of a community

  • Realise their individual potential and capacity for physical, social, emotional,  intellectual, psychological, and spiritual development

  • Access services on an equal footing to others in society that support a reasonable quality of life

  • Choose their own lifestyle and to have access to information

  • Participate in decisions that affect their lives and future

  • Receive services in a way that results in least restriction of personal rights and opportunities and human freedoms

  • Address any grievance or complaint without fear or recrimination from service providers including fear of the discontinuation of services

  • Protection from neglect, abuse, exploitation, and harrassment

 

Citation: Behaviour Support: Policy and Practice Manual Part 1, NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care, 2009


Dr Dwayne and Dr Jo are PhDs and senior counselling psychotherapists and behaviour specialists, registered with NDIS so funding is available for NDIS participants. We work across Australia via telehealth - online using zoom, facetime or your favourite app. Get in touch via the form on home page.

Beautiful display of colour showing respect.

Joseph Bowers
Next

Beyond Talk Therapy - Getting Positive Outcomes