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Mr Tony Osgood
Lecturer
Tizard
- A.Osgood@kent.ac.uk
- (01227) 827301
I joined the Tizard full time in August 2006 prior to which I worked in the NHS as a Specialist Psychologist in Learning Disability & Challenging Behaviour and as a Behaviour Specialist within a peripatetic NHS challenging needs service for a period of 7 years. My interests include mindfulness, person centred planning, positive behaviour support, communities of practice, autism and organisational influences on human service outcomes. I am just beginning a long overdue PhD, conducting an ethnography on communities of practice within learning disability provision and related systems.
Teaching
Apart from teaching on Under & Post-Graduate Tizard programmes, I have taught short and longitudinal programmes for a variety of organisations (private, local authority, health) on learning disability, autism, active support, rapport and positive behaviour support. I am a full-time Lecturer at the Tizard Centre. I have written on a variety of topics in a number of articles and book chapters. I teach primarily on the Certificate in Person Centred Support, Diploma in Positive Behaviour Support, Graduate Diploma in Applied Behaviour Analysis and post-graduate courses. I also teach Social Psychology module SP601: Understanding People With Learning Disabilities.
I am responsible for student recruitment and give a taster session each year, giving potential students the opportunity to experience what we have to offer at Tizard.
"Learning To Listen: Partnership & Person Centred Support in Challenging" pdf Taster Session 2013
For further information: http://www.kent.ac.uk/tizard/courses/short/index.html
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Publications
My recent publications include a series of accessible articles for Paradigm-UK and book chapters on person centred planning and the role of Nurse Specialists. I also contribute a regular column to the Challenging Behaviour Foundation newsletter.
Also view these in the Kent Academic Repository
Articles
Osgood, Tony (2012)
Commentary on ‘‘In celebration: living a lifethrough Positive Behaviour Support’’.
Tizard Learning Disability Review, 17 (2). pp. 76-79. ISSN 1359-5474.
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on Shephard’s narrative account of
one person’s experience of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS).
Design/methodology/approach – This paper reflects on Shephard’s account in the context of the
burgeoning literature concerning the effectiveness of PBS and the author’s own experiences.
Findings – Practitioners of PBS should consider narrative accounts as legitimate data.
Originality/value – This commentary welcomes the move toward the inclusion of narrative,
or ethnographic, perspectives when evaluating PBS.
Keywords Positive Behaviour Support, Person centred, Narratives, Human stories, Ethnography
Paper type Viewpoint
Osgood, Tony (2004)
“Suit you, sir?” : Challenging Behaviour in Learning Disability Services.
Paradigm-UK website. (unpublished)
Abstract
This accessible article considers why supporting those individuals whose behaviour challenges services and systems is often so hard to achieve; it outlines the fundamentals of positive behaviour support, and responsive systems.
Osgood, Tony (2003)
Never Mind The Quality Feel The Width: Person Centred Planning Implementation & Developmental Disability Services A polemic of unease.
Paradigm-UK Website. (unpublished)
Abstract
The recent White Paper Valuing People recommends adoption of person centred planning in developmental disability services. This paper suggests there is a difficulty in larger organisations applying such principles and leading implementation: the family of approaches now known as person-centred planning are about people, not organisations. Developmental disability service organisations often function by viewing service users as a population- some homogenous whole- collections of people with defining deficits requiring professional intervention. Whereas person centred planning is focused upon people, gifts and community.
The paper suggests existing services have failed to learn the lessons of past "innovations": without a clear understanding of why previous value and practice initiatives have failed to be effectively implemented or maintained, services are likely to poorly apply, support and maintain the paradigm-challenging themes underpinning person centred planning. It is suggested organisations may soon be found to adopt the language, but not the practice, of person centred planning.
Book Sections
Osgood, Tony (2009)
Challenging Behaviour: The Contribution of Nurse Specialists.
In: UNSPECIFIED Learning Disability Nursing Practice. Quay Books, London, pp. 327-360. ISBN 978-1-85642-385-4.
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of recent research on challenging behaviour within an IDD population, and considers best practice options for qualified learning disability nurses in understanding and responding to what might be termed 'exotic communication'.
Osgood, Tony (2005)
Managing the Tensions between the Interests of Organisations and Service Users.
In: UNSPECIFIED Person Centred Planning and Care Management with People with Learning Disabilities. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, pp. 51-66. ISBN 978-1-84310-131-4.
Abstract
The context to arguments over the organisational implementation of person centred planning and action is the lives of people using services and there are examples in this chapter illustrating why person centred planning and action are vital to underpin changes in power and power relationships between services and service users.
Internet
Osgood, Tony (2013)
Counting Stuff: Numbers Can't Tell Us Everything.
pdf.
Abstract
This column argues for us to consider the meaning as well as the appearance of things
Osgood, Tony (2012)
Words.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
To really change things we need actions not words
Osgood, Tony (2012)
Just Because.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
... you have an 'ology' or other qualification, doesn't automatically make one qualified to listen and respond to families
Osgood, Tony (2012)
Unreasonable Adjustments.
pdf article.
Abstract
Are services and statutory services imposing unreasonable constraints upon families of people with learning disabilities?
Osgood, Tony (2011)
A Long and Bumpy Ride.
pdf article.
Abstract
what does the trip through education, family support and adult options look and feel like? Customers or cattle?
Osgood, Tony (2011)
Howdy Partners?
pdf article.
Abstract
Partnership working is vital to support families of children with IDD whose behaviour challenges. Whilst clinical validity is vital, social validity and acceptability of interventions is also important
Osgood, Tony (2011)
A Pannacotta Fable.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
What do the infamous Italian desert, supermarket 'refinement' and social care have in common? This fable is about our continual buying of things that are not as originally designed, that are not fit for purpose.
Osgood, Tony (2010)
Competent Environments.
pdf article.
Abstract
competent environments give confidence to those living and working within them
Osgood, Tony (2010)
Pulling Together.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
Professionals hold many power roles in the dance of good support; hopefully they won't step on too many toes
Osgood, Tony (2010)
Learning to Listen.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
If my voice was not heard, if I had no voice, how might I let people know I didn’t know what was expected? How might I tell people those things (and people) I find disagreeable? If I feel pain?
Osgood, Tony (2009)
Breaking News.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
If you are caring for a disabled child or adult,
getting a break can be likened to searching for a
low-lying island whilst treading water in a shark
infested ocean
Osgood, Tony (2009)
Time Out or Time In?
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
Someone (I forget who, I’m afraid) once observed that
if a kid can’t read we teach them to read, if they can’t
swim we teach them to swim, but if a kid doesn’t
know how to behave we… discipline? …punish?
Osgood, Tony (2009)
Stress!.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
Working with families of
children who challenge has
taught me a thing or twelve
Osgood, Tony (2008)
Tying Ourselves In Knots.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
Strategies for untying the knotty issues arising from supporting family members with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges us
Osgood, Tony (2008)
Challenging Provision.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
people with the label of challenging behaviour often face a lack of quality local provision
Osgood, Tony (2007)
Presumed Capable.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
When we consider capacity of individuals with
disabilities to make decisions, beware inadvertently
excluding people by setting the bar of capacity
too high
Osgood, Tony (2007)
Back to Basics.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
Physical health issues can contribute to challenging
behaviour – but is this sometimes overlooked?
Osgood, Tony (2007)
Distilling Challenging Behaviour.
pdf newsletter.
Abstract
It’s the 10th anniversary of the Challenging
Behaviour Foundation and in honour of the
occasion I’ve been asked to distil what I know
about challenging behaviour into 500 words.
Osgood, Tony (2006)
‘Still Hurting: What Jane Did Next’Serviceland, Commissioning & Monitoring: A Triad of Impairments.
pdf article.
Abstract
This critical update of the experiences of one individual with intellectual disabilities living within Serviceland considers the impact of poor support on the status, behaviour and cognition of a woman and her support team.
Osgood, Tony (2005)
“Falling on Deaf Ears”: Self-Harm, Self-Injury and Ourselves: Different Rules?
PDF article.
Abstract
This accessible article considers the principles behind the terms self-injurious behaviour and self-harm; it considers the impact of the ecology on people with autism and/or intellectual disabilities, comparing the experiences of people with disabilities to those not considered disabled.
Osgood, Tony (2004)
“Doing It For Attention”: Non Physical Reactive Strategies.
PDF Article. (unpublished)
Abstract
This article considers, in an accessible manner, how to avoid physical interventions
Osgood, Tony and Marks, Bob (2002)
Positive Behaviour Support: An Information Resource for the Subscriber Network.
newsletter/article.
Abstract
This was written for Tizard's Subscriber Network
Reviews
Osgood, Tony (2012)
Book Review.
Tizard Disability Learning Review, 17 (4). pp. 199-199. ISSN 1359-5474.
Research Reports
Osgood, Tony (2008)
Medication's What You Need?
Challenging Behaviour Foundation
Abstract
Medication designed for psychiatric illnesses have
found their insidious way into the lives of many
people with learning disabilities
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I consult on organisational change and review, positive behaviour support, active support and have run a series of successful short courses and training events for organisations and communities around the UK.
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