Behavior intervention plans

A behavior intervention plan (BIP) describes how the team responds to a learner's behaviors that need reducing. It is its own clinical document on the learner's ABA episode, written and signed by the behavior analyst.

Write a behavior intervention plan#

1. On the learner's treatment plan tab, start a new behavior intervention plan.
2. Choose the Document date.
3. If you have no provider profile for ABA, choose the Provider the plan is for. An administrator who can write plans for any learner can also pick another provider under Write it for another provider.

The plan opens in the document window with NeatPractice's behavior intervention plan template, added to your clinic the first time anyone writes one. Its sections cover antecedent strategies, teaching replacement behaviors, consequence strategies, the crisis and safety plan, and the reduction goals.

Target behaviors#

The plan lists the learner's behavior reduction programs it covers. A first plan starts with every behavior reduction program on the episode that is not archived; add or remove behaviors while the plan is a draft. Each behavior's operational definition, topography, functions, function hypothesis and measure come from its program, so you write them once. Link the interventions that address each behavior on the learner's interventions list. Signing keeps the behaviors and their interventions with the signed plan as they stood that day.

Safety item#

Enter a short safety item, up to 500 characters, when staff must see it before every session. For example: Keep the door alarm on during sessions.

When a newer version is signed, the alert from the version it replaces ends that day, and the new version's safety item, if any, starts its own alert.

Risk factors#

In the same dialog, check the crisis plan's Risk factors (self-injury, aggression toward others, elopement, property destruction, pica, medical condition or seizures) and describe any Other risk in words. The signed plan lists them, and assessment and progress reports print the risk factors of the learner's latest behavior plan. A new version starts with the risks of the version it replaces.

New versions#

A signed plan never changes. To update it, start a new behavior intervention plan on the same episode. The new draft starts from the latest signed version: its section answers, its behaviors and its safety item. Edit it and sign it. Earlier versions stay readable.

Caregiver acknowledgments#

After a version is signed, record that a caregiver reviewed it, the same way as for the treatment plan: who acknowledged it, their relationship to the learner and, optionally, a signature drawn on the clinic device. See Caregiver acknowledgments.

Permissions#

Writing a behavior intervention plan needs permission to author ABA plans for the learner. Signing follows the usual signing rules.