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Privacy
The right that someone has to keep their personal life or personal information secret or known only to a small group of people.
Regulation (regulate)
To check that the activities of a business or organisation are legal and follow official rules or laws.
Inspection
The act of looking carefully, or an official visit to a building or organisation to check that everything is correct and legal.
Day services
Services provided with no overnight provision. Encompass a range of public, private, and voluntary provision, covering a wide spectrum of service user groups (older people, people with mental health issues, people with learning disabilities, people with physical disabilities, people who are terminally ill, pre-school children).
Alternative termsDay carePremises
The land and buildings owned by an organisation that provides care and support.
Aggression
Hostile behaviour and/or attitude towards an individual or group that results in verbal and/or physical attacks.
Agitation
Worry and anxiety that make a person feel uneasy.
Antecedent, behaviour, consequence
A descriptive assessment that is conducted as an initial part of a complete functional behaviour assessment.
Anxiety
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.
Applied behaviour analysis
A psychological intervention that applies empirical approaches based upon the principles of respondent and operant conditioning to change behaviour.
Behaviour modification
A psychotherapeutic intervention primarily used to eliminate or reduce maladaptive behaviour in children or adults.
Confusion
A general sense of uncertainty about what is happening to a person or what they are supposed to do.