The Secret About Clinical Positive Behaviour Support

Ever feel like your Behaviour Support Plans aren’t ‘professional enough’?

Like you should be using more jargon, more technical terms, more textbook-style language… just to prove you know what you’re talking about?

I have found that the people writing the most clinical-sounding BSPs don’t always know more than those who are a bit more "casual". They’re just more confident in jargon.

And once you realise nobody actually has it all figured out, everything shifts.
It becomes easier to write in plain language.

Easier to bring in the person’s voice.

Easier to let humanity lead, not just compliance.

I’ve seen it happen over and over again: practitioners who stop hiding behind jargon suddenly create plans that families actually want to use. Support workers finally understand what’s expected of them. And participants can recognise their own goals and preferences in the plan. That’s the difference between a BSP that ticks a box and a BSP that changes a life.

You don’t need to sound “textbook” to be a good practitioner.
You don’t need every sentence to be perfectly polished.

You just need to start writing plans that feel real.

Because quality in PBS has never been about how clinical you sound.