Horizon Care Clinical Support Services provides specialist support to:

• Staff working with young people with challenging behaviours
• Children and young people experiencing difficulty managing their own behaviours
• Parents to develop understanding and appropriate management strategies

Support provided includes:

• Crisis management, psychological assessments, team support, risk assessments, behaviour management plans and reactive strategies.

• Anger management, understanding sexuality and relationships, attachment problems, counselling, communication and support, self injury and self harm, alternatives to challenging behaviours, functional analysis and developing age appropriate and purposeful activities.

We offer an holistic, person centred approach and use behaviour management strategies that focus on the avoidance of confrontation and use of consistent, risk assessed planned interventions.

The clinician works with staff to address their perceptions of difficult behaviours, develop confidence, improve awareness and promote consistency. The approach focuses not only on behaviour change but also on successful behaviour management.

Outreach Support to assist parents understand the complexities underlying the behaviours and to develop strategies for the management of challenging behaviour within their place of origin is also available. Routinely planned sessions help implement management plans used within the organisation, and allow a friendly face to help ease any anxieties about the progression home or the transition to a new placement.

Individual therapeutic work with young people can be provided if appropriate. Our clinician specialises in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy an approach that is based on the belief that behaviour can be changed if the cognitions (beliefs) are challenged. Strategies used would include forming a functional analysis of the causes of the current behaviours. Researched techniques used to implement this approach evidence a high success rate of behaviour modification.