Answer
The use of proactive strategies on mitigating challenging behaviors facilitates the improvement of an individual’s quality of life and their need to engage in behaviors that are challenging.
Explanation
Proactive strategies are applied in mitigating the challenges in behaviors with the aim of developing and introducing approaches which promote changes over time. These ranges of changes that could be achieved in a person’s environment through communication, attitudes and risk awareness facilitate the following;
• Everyone contributions to ideas, information and feedback. For example in meetings
• Activity and planning ensures every aspect that could mitigate challenging behaviors is taken into account earlier
• Proactive protection of self through information sharing and confidentiality ensures building of positive relationships which could aid in managing damaging behaviors.
