How Can Behavior Support Management Help Families?
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities may become easily frustrated. With the help of a behavior support management specialist, your family member receives positive support to improve their quality of life and lower the frequency of outbursts and behaviors that can be disruptive.
How does behavior support management work? To better understand this service, take a look at some different situations where support management is used.
At Home
You struggle to connect with your child at home. The outbursts are worsening, and you know you can’t respond to your child’s anger with yelling or scolding. You just aren’t sure what to do, however. With the help of a behavior support expert, you’ll learn skills that help you better understand how to work with your child.
Schools and Classrooms
Your daughter has autism spectrum disorder. She struggles to look at people who are talking to her, and she rarely makes eye contact. As a result, her ability to hold a conversation and stay involved in activities is limited. She becomes easily frustrated when people don’t do what she wants.
It’s a problem in the classroom. Her teachers routinely have to stop the class to calm your daughter. You’re looking for a better way to involve her in a school setting without her being disruptive.
Behavior support management can help her work on communication skills. With positive reinforcement, she learns skills needed to join in group activities and learn how to handle her frustration to avoid outbursts. This type of support can make school a happier place for your daughter.
Shopping
Your adult son has intellectual disabilities that make it hard for him to do things like shop for groceries. He becomes easily agitated while communicating his wishes to the deli, butcher, and bakery employees. It usually leads to him walking out and not buying any of the groceries he wanted.
With a behavior support management expert by his side, he can learn how to turn a frustrating shopping trip into a successful one. He’ll have someone to guide him into completing a task, gain positive reinforcement when he completes a chore and enjoys the feeling of accomplishment when he’s gotten everything on his list.
Talk to a behavior support management specialist. With a customized care plan, your son or daughter has the support needed to thrive, even when you’re all experiencing frustration, sadness, or anger and finding it hard to avoid an outburst or hurt feelings. A calmer, happier environment makes everyone enjoy their time together.
If you are considering behavior support management in Greenfield, IN, please call the caring staff at RSI Cares. Serving Greater Indianapolis Area. Call for Immediate Info & Assistance: 317-471-0750.
As a practicing Registered Nurse, Etelka was keenly aware of a void in quality patient care that could be provided in the home. She embarked upon a journey to develop a home health care agency that would exceed all expectations and become a trusted partner to physicians and patients.
A Distinguished Career From Nurse to Director of Nursing to President of Home Services Unlimited
Etelka’s distinguished career followed a logical progression to her position as President of Home Services Unlimited. She graduated as a nurse practitioner with a Bachelor of Nursing (RN) in 1972 from Meshgorya University in the Ukraine, close to where she lived with her family. She married her husband Phil in 1973 and decided in 1977 that they would relocate to the United States to be closer to family and to come to this land of opportunity. With an eagerness to continue her budding career, Etelka sat for and passed her Boards in the U.S. in 1979.
A Love and Talent for Working with the Elderly
Etelka began her nursing career in the U.S. at Colonial Crest, now part of Golden Living, where shewasthe In-service Coordinator, the Director of Training and Education and Director of Nursing, a position she occupied for several years.
With a group of partners, she co-founded Adept Corporation, which operated group homes for the mentally challenged. The business was successful and in 1996, Etelka sold her share to return to her roots, caring for the elderly.
In January of 1997, Etelka opened Home Services Unlimited as a fully licensed business to provide home health care. In her quest to learn to do better for her patients, she had already obtained a Masters in Healthcare Administration (MHA) in May of 1990 from the College of St. Francis. As President of Home Services Unlimited, Inc., Etelka guides the trusted, experienced care model Home Services Unlimited uses to continue providing excellent home health care.
Giving Back to the Community of Indianapolis
Volunteering for community services is a high priority for Etelka. Her memberships include the Indiana Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, Executive Women in Health Care and the Indiana Association for Home and Hospice Care, where she is a member of the Board of Directors.
Etelka has also served on the Board of Directors with Hooverwood Home, a highly regarded geriatric facility, since 1997 and as the President for 2005-2006. Through her community work, she has received several awards and accolades, including the Nora McFarland award in 2002, from the Indiana Association of Home and Hospice Care.
Etelka was honored as a “Health Care Hero” by the Indianapolis Business Journal. The issue can be read online here:
http://mags.ibj.com/activemagazine/welcome/html/ibjhch.html.
After clicking on the link, then click on the image of the issue’s front page. After that, you can browse through the issue or click in a box near the top of your internet browser to adjust the page to 17, which is where Etelka’s article appears.
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