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Strategies that helped Betty feel busy and useful again
- Authors:
- WOOD-MITCHELL Amy, MILBURN Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 16(3), May 2008, pp.24-27.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The Newcastle Challenging Behaviour Service model is an evidence-based approach used to guide a person-centred therapy for people with challenging behaviour. The authors explain how the team worked with staff to better understand the needs of a woman routinely trying to be 'let out' of a care home.
Lying to people with dementia: sparking the debate
- Authors:
- WOOD-MITCHELL Amy, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 14(6), November 2006, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
This article draws on the findings of research conducted by staff at the Centre for Health of the Elderly, Newcastle upon Tyne which found that care staff admit to lying frequently. Most often this was to ease residents' distress, but also to ease family members distress, improve compliance and save time. The authors discuss the benefits and then problems that staff associated with lying. The article then examines the features that make lying more or less likely to occur.
Guidelines on using dolls
- Authors:
- MacKENZIE Lorna, WOOD-MITCHELL Amy, JAMES Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 15(1), January 2007, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The authors present guidance on doll use in dementia care settings based on their experiences.
Thinking about dolls
- Authors:
- MacKENZIE Lorna, WOOD-MITCHELL Amy, JAMES Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 14(2), March 2006, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The authors, who have spent 18 months carrying out experimental research in the area, provide a summary of some of the empirical findings about the use of dolls in dementia care. They do so in response to an article by Jane Verity in an earlier edition of the Journal of Dementia Care.
Micro-skills of group formulations in care settings
- Authors:
- JACKMAN Louisa J., WOOD-MITCHELL Amy, JAMES Ian A.
- Journal article citation:
- Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 13(1), 2014, pp.23-32.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study examines some of the micro-skills associated with the moment-to-moment decisions and actions involved in delivering group formulation sessions in dementia care settings. The authors discuss the therapeutic framework used by therapists from a number of Challenging Behaviour Services in the UK (Newcastle, Northumberland, South Tyneside, Teesside, Sutton and Merton, Northern Ireland) which is frequently referred to as the Newcastle or Colombo approach. Through a theoretical review and practice illustration, the study pays particular attention to the role of therapists’ questions and questioning styles in group formulation sessions, providing a framework which aims to facilitate care staffs’ understanding, reflection and empathy regarding their residents who are displaying ‘challenging behaviours’. The study also provides a potential guide to the training of therapists working in this area and thereby attempts to benefit clinical practices in an area where pharmacological approaches are usually the treatment of choice.