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Last updated: February 2026
Challenging Behaviour Training
Regular price
£196.00
14 Days Money-Back Guarantee
- 100% online & self-paced learning
- Free Digital Certificate
What you'll learn
By the end of this course, participants will have a clear, practical and research-informed understanding of challenging behaviour and how to manage it safely and compassionately. Key learning outcomes include:
- Understand challenging behaviour and its impact on individuals and environments.
- Apply behaviour theories, models, and whole-setting approaches effectively.
- Build strong relationships using clear communication, tone, and supportive language.
- Support behaviour regulation with routines, prompts, rewards, and sensitivity.
- Conduct functional assessments and develop Positive Behaviour Support Plans.
- Identify complex behaviours, manage crises, rebuild trust, and act positively.
About course
Challenging behaviour is not a learning disability. It’s an individual’s actions that disrupt learning, care, or daily life, or may pose risks to themselves or others. These behaviours can include aggression, hitting or kicking other people, throwing things or self-harming, withdrawal, or refusal to cooperate.
The Challenging Behaviour Training from Training Excellence is designed for teachers, teaching assistants, school staff, care professionals, and support workers who work with children, young people, or individuals with additional needs. The course is also for individuals who involves understanding, managing, or responding to challenging behaviour, helping them build confidence in supportive environments.
This online CPD-accredited challenging behaviour training course will help you understand the causes of challenging behaviour and its impact on individuals and environments. Learn and apply behaviour theories and models to build strong relationships. You can also recognise and respond to behavioural escalation using restorative and de-escalation techniques.
Our challenging behaviour training course modules cover the foundations of challenging behaviour, proactive and preventive behaviour strategies, crisis resolution, identifying complex behaviours, and managing low-level disruption by using restorative approaches. Additionally, how you handle professional resilience, including self-injury, trauma triggers, crisis management, and well-being resources.
During the course, you’ll get 24/7 support whenever you need. After completing the course, you will receive an instant Free PDF Certificate, which will add value to your CV. So, Enrol now and become an expert in managing challenging behavious.
Course in action

Course Curriculum
7 sections • 42 lectures • 4m total
- Section Overview of Foundations of Challenging Behaviour0m
- Defining Challenging Behaviour0m
- The Impact of Challenging Behaviour on Individuals and Environments0m
- Functions and Underlying Causes of Behaviour0m
- Challenging Behaviour and Mental Health0m
- Behaviour Theories and Behaviour Models0m
- Whole-Setting and Whole-School Approaches to Behaviour0m
- Section Highlights of Foundations of Challenging Behaviour0m
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, upon successful completion, you’ll receive a certificate to showcase on your CV to reflect your skills and achievements in this area.
