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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.
Group psychotherapy with learning disabled adults
- Authors:
- JONES Alison M., BONNAR Sally
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(2), 1996, pp.65-69.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
An account is offered of group psychotherapy with five mildly learning disabled adults with emotional and maturational difficulties. Group content, dynamic process and problems, and evaluation are examined. Psychodynamic group psychotherapy with this client group is a treatment option not often undertaken but it is appropriate and potentially beneficial to this group of people. The task of the therapist is not easy and supervision and support are essential.
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 multi-modal diagnosis and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Authors:
- DETWEILER Robert E., HICKS Andrew P., HICKS Mack R.
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Care and Education, 4(2), Summer 1995, pp.4-9.
- Publisher:
- Association of Workers for Maladjusted Children
Demonstrate that paper diagnosis and treatment of ADHD must involve a multi-disciplined team of professionals. They also show how such a system work at Centre Academy in London.
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.
Emotional and cognitive adjustment in abuse children
- Authors:
- CEREZO M. Angeles, FRIAS Dolores
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 18(11), November 1994, pp.923-932.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Research on the impact of maltreatment on children has increased in the last years, as there is a need to design appropriate treatment strategies. Social, cognitive, and emotional areas may be affected in these children. Studies the psychological functioning of child victims, particularly in their emotional cognitive adjustment and contrasts the results with those obtained by other researchers who have used a similar methodology. Also analyses and discusses implications for the child abuse victims' emotional and cognitive rehabilitation.
Changing behaviours
- Authors:
- COLSEY Julie, HATTON Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 28.9.94, 1994, pp.64-65.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes the approach taken to helping a family with a child who had frequent tantrums.
New long-stay patients at a mental handicap hospital
- Authors:
- KHAN Asaf M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 6(2), 1993, pp.165-173.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Considers the continuing role of long-stay mental handicap hospitals in the light of the development of community care services by studying 31 new long-stay patients in a Birmingham hospital. The majority of these patients had psychiatric disorders and/or severe potential management problems because of disturbed behaviour - community care services for people with such needs will be required to be developed before remaining mental handicap hospitals are closed.
Enhancing self concepts and achievement of mildly handicapped students, learning disabled, mildly mentally retarded and behavior disordered
- Author:
- JONES Carroll J
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Thomas
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 291p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Springfield, IL
Self-injurious behaviour: an overview of recent trends in epidemiological and behavioural research
- Author:
- EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 5(1), 1992, pp.49-81.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Reviews and discusses three aspects: basing interventions on an analysis of underlying causes, the functional displacement and communication hypothesis, and the debate about the acceptability and effectiveness of aversive treatment.