Frameworks & Tools · Operational rule
Access Before Intervention
Access Before Intervention asks whether a person can meaningfully access the communication, relationship, environment, body position, pace and modality an intervention requires — before difficulty is interpreted as resistance, lack of insight, lack of motivation or lack of capacity.
Applications
The same principle, different settings
Counselling
Adapt the therapeutic process before interpreting reduced engagement as resistance.
Specialist Behaviour Support
Understand communication, function, unmet need and conditions before targeting visible behaviour.
Participation
Distinguish lack of access from lack of skill.
Organisations and systems
Identify the process, language, sensory, time and power conditions shaping what becomes visible.
Counselling and Specialist Behaviour Support share this principle but remain professionally distinct services.