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The impact of borderline personality traits on challenging behaviour: implications for learning disabilities services
- Authors:
- DUNN Barnaby D., BOLTON Winifred
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Forensic Practice, 6(4), December 2004, pp.3-9.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes how threats to stab people in a client with learning disabilities may have been inadvertently reinforced during detention in a medium secure unit by overlooking borderline personality traits. Formulating the case from the biopsychosocial model of borderline personality disorder, illustrates how an invalidating environment provided by learning disability services may have interacted with underlying difficulties in emotion regulation to reinforce challenging behaviour. Explaining threats to stab purely in terms of learning disability accidentally invalidated the client's emotional distress, so the only way he could convey how he was feeling was by escalating challenging behaviour. Risk management procedures also strengthened the client's belief that he was a dangerous person, and reinforced the challenging behaviour by gaining interpersonal attention. Highlights the need for learning disability services to be aware of how personality features contribute to learning disability presentations and to formulate from an interactive perspective.
Hyperkinetic or attention deficit disorder
- Author:
- SANDBERG Seija
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 169, July 1996, pp.10-17.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article selectively reviews the main epidemiological, experimental and clinical studies over the past 10 years which relate to hyperkinetic and Attention Deficit Disorder. Also looks at treatment and outcomes for the disorder.
Case report: challenging behaviour in a young adult with Down's Syndrome and autism
- Authors:
- PRASHER V.P., CLARKE D.J.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(4), 1996, pp.167-169.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
An association between Down's Syndrome and autism is reviewed. A case of severe challenging behaviour in a young adult with Down's Syndrome and childhood autism is reported. Areas of further research including prevalence studies, psychopathology and investigation for underlying genetic aetiological factors are discussed.
Punishing interventions
- Author:
- REEVES Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 7.12.94, 1994, pp.57-58.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that aversive behavioural interventions have no place in the care of people with learning disabilities.
Problem behaviour in people with severe learning difficulties: a practical guide to a constructional approach
- Authors:
- ZARKOWSKA Ewa, CLEMENTS John
- Publisher:
- Croom Helm
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 208p., tables, diags, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Intended for care staff to enable them to understand the meaning behind problem behaviour, and how broad-based interventions can be developed.
Children with challenging behaviour: past and present in the United Kingdom
- Authors:
- CHUNG Man Cheung, NOLAN Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 12(4), September 1998, pp.251-262.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aim of this paper is to give a brief overview of the historical and current understanding of and care for children with learning difficulties who displayed challenging behaviour in the UK. It is clear that challenging behaviour is not a new phenomenon but has existed throughout the history of learning difficulty.
Behaviour phenotype for Down's Syndrome
- Authors:
- COLLACOTT Richard A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 172, January 1998, pp.85-89.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
For more than a century, the idea of particular personality/behavioural characteristics being associated with people with Down's Syndrome has been explored, but with inconclusive results. In this research the Disability Assessment Schedule was used to ascertain the behavioural profiles of adults with Down's Syndrome and adults with learning disabilities of other aetiologies. Results found that despite and equal age and developmental quotient, the Down's Syndrome group were less likely to demonstrate maladaptive behaviours. This study confirms there to be a behaviour phenotype among adults with Down's Syndrome. The reasons for this require further research.
Learning to listen: positive approaches and people with difficult behaviour
- Author:
- LOVETT Herbert
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 287p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Offers alternative models of service to professionals working with people with learning difficulties who also present difficult behaviour. Uses case studies to illustrate a more interactive approach to caring, taking the views of both the user and the carer into consideration. Shows that by building an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect many of the more unpleasant techniques for dealing with difficult behaviour can be avoided.
Persistence and change in challenging and problem behaviours of young adults with intellectual disability living in the family home
- Authors:
- KLEMAN Chris, ALBORZ Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 9(3), 1996, pp.181-193.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Persistence and change in the challenging and problem behaviours of a group of young adults with learning disability who were living in their family homes are described. Parents were interviewed in 1988 and again in 1993. The data suggest that challenging and problem behaviours were highly persistent: 83% of people who were injuring parents in 1988 were still injuring in 1993. Corresponding persistence levels for other behaviours were: destructive behaviours 7%; self-injury, 75% night disturbance, 96%; problems with supervision, 73%. The data show a significant decline in the occurrence and frequency of self-injury.
The definition of challenging behaviour in practice
- Authors:
- LOWE Kathy, FELCE David
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23(3), 1995, pp.118-123.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Two studies explored how severely challenging behaviour might be defined in practice. Associations between behaviour and severity of management problem in the first study suggested that outer-directed behaviour tended to be rated as more challenging. The characteristics of people referred to specialist challenging behaviour services were compared in the second study to similarly labelled people not so referred. Differences again highlighted outer-directed behaviour disruptive to the material or social environment.