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"Suit you sir?": challenging behaviour in learning disability services
- Author:
- OSGOOD Tony
- Publisher:
- Tizard Centre
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
This article recommends a person-centred approach to addressing challenging behaviour among adults with learning disabilities in residential settings. Challenging behaviour is learned in the same way that acceptable behaviour is learned. In order to encourage acceptable behaviour, it is important to try to understand the underlying causes and triggers for the challenging behaviour and to understand and empathise with the service user’s point of view.