Severe Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviours: Designing high quality services

✍ Scribed by Eric Emerson, David Felce, Peter McGill, Jim Mansell (auth.), Eric Emerson MSc, FBPsS, C. Psychol, Peter McGill MPhil, AFBPsS, C. Psychol, Jim Mansell MSc(Econ), AFPsS, C. Psychol (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 334
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a timely book. The question of how to help people with challenging behaviour -and how to design and manage services so that staff, families and users feel that what should be done is being done - is at the top of the agenda. Failure to deal com­ petently with the issue results in disaffection, poor quality ser­ vices and a less than optimal quality of life for service users. Moreover, the credibility of services for all people with learning disabilities is intimately connected with how we cope with chal­ lenging behaviour, a point made recently by a Department of Health Working Group chaired by Jim Mansell (Department of Health, 1993). The book is welcome because it draws together what is known about the important questions from a British perspective, although, of course, most of the underlying issues have world­ wide relevance. The contributors, while all having a good deal of experience and authority, do not put forward simple portrayals of the problems, nor glib solutions, and this is one of the book's major strengths. Clarity in the field of challenging behaviour is sometimes elu­ sive. What is presented here forces the reader to confront argu­ ments in a rational and logical fashion.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-16
The size of the problem....Pages 17-36
Understanding challenging behaviour....Pages 37-68
Conceptualizing service provision....Pages 69-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Ordinary housing for people with severe learning disabilities and challenging behaviours....Pages 97-118
Individually designed residential provision for people with seriously challenging behaviours....Pages 119-156
Towards meaningful daytime activity....Pages 157-178
The Behavioural Services Team for people with learning disabilities....Pages 179-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Values, attitudes and service ideology....Pages 209-231
Organizing community placements....Pages 232-259
Maintaining local residential placements....Pages 260-281
Assessing costs and benefits....Pages 282-296
Policy and policy implications....Pages 297-313
Afterword....Pages 314-315
Back Matter....Pages 317-325

✦ Subjects

Behavioral Therapy; Clinical Psychology