Worry and anxiety that make a person feel uneasy.

A descriptive assessment that is conducted as an initial part of a complete functional behaviour assessment.

Feelings of uneasiness, apprehension, or fear which may be caused by a perceived sense of threat or danger, or which may have no apparent cause.

A psychological intervention that applies empirical approaches based upon the principles of respondent and operant conditioning to change behaviour.

A psychotherapeutic intervention primarily used to eliminate or reduce maladaptive behaviour in children or adults.

A general sense of uncertainty about what is happening to a person or what they are supposed to do.

Actions taken to address a person's agitated or heightened behaviour in order to relieve their stress or return them to baseline.

Is a state of emotional suffering. The term encompasses a wide range of symptoms, but its hallmarks are the symptoms of depression and anxiety. People can experience it at any time, and it is usually temporary.

A recurrent way of acting by an individual or group toward a given object or in a given situation.

Where a staff member attempts to attract a person's attention away from something to prevent or put a stop to a potentially negative interaction.

A person's actions, words or gestures exhibited as a way of responding to something negative, frustrating or confusing in their social and physical environment.

Behaviours that cause harm, injury, or damage to a person’s body, often as an expression of personal distress. Self-harming behaviour might include cutting, burning, head-banging, hitting, biting, pinching, severe scratching, swallowing objects, and self-poisoning.