This graduate certificate provides the perfect platform for graduates looking to upgrade and extend their knowledge and skills in Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) for people with disabilities.
PBS practitioners provide comprehensive and person-centred support for people who display challenging behaviours.
This course capitalises on the demand for capable positive behaviour support (PBS) practitioners who can develop and implement PBS, as well as provide PBS leadership to interdisciplinary teams. This growing space provides exciting career opportunities, with PBS being the recommended framework for providing behaviour support to people living with disabilities under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
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Graduate Certificate in Positive Behaviour Support
Duration: 1 year
Delivery mode:
In person
Online plus placement/intensive
Location:
Bedford Park
Availability:
Part-time
Start dates:
March
SATAC code: 2GC142
Annual indicative fees (2025):
$12,852 (Full fee paying)
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The postgraduate program is not available to international students.
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The course is designed to enable you to be recognised as a PBS practitioner and to prepare you for leadership roles providing specialist behaviour support to people with disabilities, their families, and key stakeholders. From theory through to implementation in community settings, this course provides you with a solid foundation of theory and practice-based skills in PBS, which emphasises critical analysis, effective problem solving and innovation.
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The graduate certificate provides studies in areas such as learning and disability theories, professional and ethical practice and compliance, trauma-informed practice, functional behaviour assessment and analysis, systematic instruction, report writing and practice leadership.
Particular emphasis is placed on the techniques required to formulate, develop, implement PBS and to provide PBS leadership in supporting individuals with complex behaviour support needs.
This graduate certificate includes a practicum topic, during which students are mentored in applying theory to practice. This will consist of a 100-hour placement that can be completed over the duration of semester 2.
Before commencing the placement, students need the required DHS clearances and a National Police Clearance. They must also have successfully completed a first aid certificate and the Responding to Abuse and Neglect training. Full, current details around compliance requirements are available upon enrolling in the practicum topic.
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Flinders students can apply to transfer to this course internally. Visit: www.flinders.edu.au/internaltransfer for more information.
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