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The Empowerment Behavioural Management Approach (EBMA) provides a systemic framework to develop a shared understanding of behaviours that challenge and system dynamics that require support within a system (e.g. family, support worker team, professionals, social relationships, local community) within neurorehabilitation . The EBMA provides the framework and crucial ethos for developing shared agreements for managing the behaviour and for applying neurorehabilitation interventions. The EBMA draws on theories from behavioural approaches, narrative and systemic models, (including understanding issues of power and control within systems) motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and  acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in addition to exploring issues of capacity and risk management

 

The EBMA enables the psychologist/team supporting the person to work collaboratively and creatively with the individual and the system, reducing dynamics of power and control and enhancing empowerment within the system. 

 

Through implementing the EBMA, the individual is are empowered to identify the behaviours that challenge, build their motivation for changing the behaviours, and to be at the centre of all management plans, being crucial in the development, planning and wording of specific agreements setting out how the system should support the individual when the behaviour occurs.

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