Challenging behaviour Blog Posts

• Impulsivity and stereotypy were predictors of self-injurious behaviour in people with learning disabilities and autism diagnoses

  24 Jul 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Getting it Right Toolkit for commissioners to support good practice in the light of Winterbourne View

  19 Jul 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Specialist short breaks services found to help maintain children in families, but only if key conditions are met

  17 Jul 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Community Treatment Orders used differently for people with learning disabilities

  10 Jul 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Severity of challenging behaviour for young people in transition did not correlate with cost of care

  28 Jun 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Staff supporting people with challenging behaviour did not make or use consistent attributions about such behaviour in personal construct psychology study

  10 May 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Social inclusion for people with challenging behaviour poorly conceptualised and rarely achieved

  11 Mar 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Factsheets on Challenging Behaviour Foundation website now summarised for easier access

  04 Feb 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Exposure to aggression affects staff emotional well being in Canadian study

  18 Jan 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Learning disability support workers call for more information on side effects of psychotropic medications

  19 Dec 2012

  • John Northfield