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Using medication to manage behaviour problems among adults with a learning disability: quick reference guide
- Authors:
- DEB Shoumitro, CLARKE David, UNWIN Gemma
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This quick reference guide has been produced to provide advice to people who are considering prescribing medication to manage behaviour problems among adults (aged 18 years and over) with a learning disability. It does not consider in any detail the indications for choosing specific medication to manage behaviour problems among adults with a learning disability. Rather, it provides recommendations for clinical practice surrounding the use of medication to manage behaviour problems among adults with a learning disability. All relevant medication and related issues are considered. The guide is divided into the following sections: initiation of treatment (assessment, formulation, and treatment plan); monitoring of treatment; discontinuation of treatment; high-dose medication; poly-prescribing; intramuscular (IM) medication; rapid tranquilisation; as required (PRN) prescribing; communication and information sharing; interdisciplinary working; consent and capacity; and the referral pathway.
Life beings at home: a guide to housing for families and children with autism/ learning disabilities who display challenging behaviour
- Author:
- HOUSING AND SUPPORT ALLIANCE
- Publisher:
- Housing and Support Alliance
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 32
- Place of publication:
- Liverpool
Aimed at families of children with autism/learning disabilities who display challenging behaviour, this guide offers practical advice on the choices they have to get housing or adapt current housing to meet their needs. Specifically, the guide examines: what families say they need from housing; how families can manage their situation with better housing; how they can get the housing they need; paying for housing and adaptations; what the law says about housing for families of disabled children; and how to get more help. This guide is accompanied by a training and development pack and films that help health, housing and social care professionals reflect on and understand their role in helping families get the housing they need. (Edited publisher abstract)
A guide for advocates: supporting people with learning disabilities who are described as having challenging behaviour
- Author:
- CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Challenging Behaviour Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 77p.
- Place of publication:
- Chatham
A practical guide providing key information about best practice in supporting people living with challenging behaviour in England and Wales. The resource is written for both professional advocates and family carers advocating on behalf of people with learning disabilities who are described as having challenging behaviour. The characteristics of good support are identified, with suggested questions for advocates to ask around personalisation, activities and opportunities, staff training and communication skills. The guide also looks at issues such as the use of medication, physical intervention, barriers and seclusion, sectioning under the mental health act and alleged offending. Key bullet points identify the issues that may be encountered, checklists and case studies and a charter for challenging behaviour are included.
Managing challenging behaviour: supporting the Certificates in Working with People who have Learning Disabilities
- Author:
- BRADLEY Alice
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 145p., booklets, CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
A complete package of training materials for managers and trainers, to provide everything staff need to know about working with people with learning disabilities who present challenging behaviour. The pack contains: a trainer’s guide with timed session plans, supporting overhead transparencies, course handouts and activity sheets; a trainer’s reader for the manager or trainer to read before each session; · a CD with overhead transparency masters, course handouts and activity sheets to print out and use; and a workbook for use by participants who cannot attend every session. The trainer pack is fully mapped to the Manage Challenging Behaviour units from the Levels 2 and 3 Certificates in Working with People who have Learning Disabilities. Written by an experienced learning trainer and practitioner, the pack covers: understanding challenging behaviours – why they occur, and factors that influence behaviour; the range of functions that challenging behaviour can serve for people with learning disabilities who challenge; improving the lifestyles of people who challenge;· positive strategies for working with services users that challenge; policies and procedures, teamwork, the role of observation and record keeping, and responding to service users who may be affected by the challenging behaviour of others; and planned and emergency uses of physical interventions.
Risk in challenging behaviour: a good practice guide for professionals
- Author:
- POWELL Sharon
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
This guide is designed to help with establishing a framework to support individuals with learning disabilities or autistic spectrum disorders whose behaviour challenges services and presents a risk to themselves or others. It sets out in clear and simple terms a structured and systematic approach to the identification, assessment and management of risks associated with challenging behaviours.
Psychological interventions for severely challenging behaviours shown by people with learning disabilities: clinical practice guidelines
- Authors:
- BALL Tina, et al
- Publisher:
- British Psychological Society
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 96p.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
In essence, the guidelines propose that positive behavioural support (PBS) is the benchmark for intervention in the field of challenging behaviours. There are 52 guidelines in total, each of which is based on research evidence and described as either 'essential' or 'good' practice. Three essential core guidelines set out the value base of PBS. They focus on recognising the person's unique strengths and needs and unique social context, adopting a coherent process of assessment-driven intervention and considering the person and the environment as well as the behaviour. Assessment is therefore idiographic rather than diagnostic; intervention is systemic as much as intra-psychic. Seeking consent before assessment, maintaining confidentiality, eliciting feedback, assessing risk and preventing abuse are all essential practice.
Arranging services for people with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges: a quick guide for commissioners
- Authors:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE, SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publishers:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
People with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges should have the support they need to live how and where they want. Organising and developing services in the right way is the first step to making this happen. This quick guide focuses on achieving good outcomes for people through effective commissioning of services. It looks at planning and delivering services, providing services in the community, and considering housing options. The content is based on NICE’s guideline on learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges: service design and delivery. (Edited publisher abstract)
A guide to adaptations for children and young people with behaviours that challenge
- Author:
- FOUNDATIONS
- Publisher:
- Foundations
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 46
- Place of publication:
- Glossop
The aims of this guide are: to provide some background and context to behaviours that challenge; to outline the rules and regulations relating to disabled facilities grants (DFG) and discretionary housing assistance policies; to provide advice on how the funding can be used; to include case studies and examples of good practice in order to support the effective use of the DFG and discretionary housing assistance policies so that children and young people with behaviours that challenge are able to continue to live at home where that is in their best interests and the interests of their family. DFG funding can be used where the criteria for a mandatory disabled facilities grants are meds. This may include adaptations designed to minimise the risk of danger where a disabled person has behavioural problems which causes them to act in a boisterous or violent manner, damaging the house, themselves and perhaps other people. Other adaptations specifically mentioned in the current DFG guidance include the provision of specialised lighting, toughened or shatterproof glass, the installation of guards around certain facilities such as fires and radiators, and cladding of exposed surfaces and corners to prevent self-injury. The guide shows that the effective and creative use of the DFG budgets can make a significant impact on the lives of people with autism and/or learning disabilities as well as on the lives of their families and carers. Such an approach can also make sense financially. By helping to avoid unnecessary admissions to residential care, appropriate use of DFG budgets not only delivers better outcomes for people with autism and/or learning disabilities and their families but can do so whilst at the same time delivering better value for money for local authorities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Understanding and responding to behaviour that challenges in intellectual disabilities: a handbook for those who provide support
- Editors:
- OSGOOD Tony, BAKER Peter
- Publisher:
- Pavilion Publishing
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 200
- Place of publication:
- Hove
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
An accessible and practical handbook for people who are supporting children and adults with learning or developmental disabilities and/ or autism who display behaviour that challenges. Based on research, policy and latest practice, it reflects changes that have taken place since the previous edition, in particular the values and approach of Positive Behaviour Support. Contents include: assessing behaviour that challenges, building a good rapport, keeping people safe, learning new ways of behaving, and working with families. Case studies are included. The hand book will be relevant for professionals, support workers, students and family members. (Edited publisher abstract)
STOMP: top tips for advocates
- Author:
- VOICEABILITY
- Publisher:
- Voiceability
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
A guide, developed in partnership with NHS England, which explains how advocates can help prevent the over use of psychotropic medication in people with a learning disability, autism or both. The guide will help advocates to understand their role in relation to medication and supporting people to have a better life. This includes ensuring that the views about their medication are heard, that people's rights are upheld and they are supported to make their own choices and enjoy a good life. It also explains why people with a learning disability or autism are more likely to be given psychotropic medications than other people, the negative side effects it can cause and provides information on best practice in supporting people whose behaviour challenges. (Edited publisher abstract)