Challenging behaviour Blog Posts

• Lack of effective services for young people with challenging behaviour at transition tends to increase protectiveness of parents

  20 Sep 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Study finds female forensic patients with learning disabilities had higher levels of anger than males

  15 Aug 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Small number of individuals account for the majority of uses of physical restraint in USA study

  12 Aug 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Methodological difficulties continue to hamper evaluation of interventions for challenging behaviour

  11 Aug 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Patterns between psychiatric disorders and challenging behaviours in people with learning disabilities explored

  22 Jul 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Audit of antipsychotic prescribing shows good efficacy reviewing but poor monitoring of side effects

  15 Jul 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Call for guidelines on role of physical conditions in challenging behaviour

  13 Jul 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• RCTs in which people with learning disabilities participate are of sufficient quality but small in size

  12 Jul 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• The experience of violence at work in community learning disability teams

  08 Jul 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Common behavioural and psychiatric problems in Prader-Willi syndrome identified in review

  07 Jul 2011

  • John Northfield