Caring for people with challenging behaviors : essential skills and successful strategies in long-term care

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Title:

Caring for people with challenging behaviors : essential skills and successful strategies in long-term care

Author:

Long, Stephen Weber.

ISBN:

9781878812919

Personal Author:

Long, Stephen Weber.

Publication Information:

Northpoint, NY : Health Professions Press, c2005.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Contents:

1. Why nursing home residents do what they do -- 2. Encouraging positive behavior -- 3. Finding solutions to difficult behavior -- 4. Stress and the roles of thinking and feeling -- 5. Obstacles to using effective techniques -- 6. Treatment planning.

Abstract:

"At some point, nearly 80% of long-term care residents display moderate to severe behavior problems stemming from mental illness, dementia, difficult personalities, long-standing behavior patterns, or personal distress. Dealing with these behavior problems is often the most demanding part of a caregiver's job. This innovative book helps professional caregivers develop effective ways to prevent, reduce, or eliminate residents' challenging behaviors and alleviate their own stress." "Through numerous vignettes of readily recognizable resident types, staff will learn to identify what triggers and reinforces residents' challenging behavior. Recommended solutions for improving behavior include identifying the interpersonal "ABCs of Behavior" - the antecedents, the behaviors, and the consequences - and using practical communication techniques and evidence-based psychological approaches to encourage positive behavior.".

"This versatile book can be used as a self-help tool, a curriculum for in-services, or a training guide for students. Presented in easy-to-understand language, the book's principles and interventions are essential for everyone who works in a nursing home."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Nursing home patients -- Mental health.

Behavior therapy for older people.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004027643.html

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Summary

In Caring for People with Challenging Behaviors, caregiving staff can find effective ways to prevent, reduce, or eliminate disruptive behaviors exhibited by residents in long-term care settings. Nearly 80% of LTC residents have some degree of moderate to severe behavior problems, stemming from mental illness, dementia, difficult personalities, longstanding behavior patterns, or personal distress. This new book provides practical, evidence-based coping and intervention strategies for use in care planning and day-to-day care. Through vignettes of readily recognizable resident types, staff will learn to understand what triggers and reinforces residents' challenging behavior. Solutions come from identifying the interpersonal "ABCs of behavior"--the antecedents, the behaviors, and the consequences--and using communication techniques and other effective psychological approaches to encourage positive behavior. From this book staff can learn to recognize and manage on-the-job stressors avoid common intervention mistakes respond to obstacles to effective interventions promote teamwork and improve interpersonal relationships set and execute realistic, achievable goals in treatment planning encourage residents' autonomy The principles and interventions are presented here in easy-to-understand language directed to everyone who works in a nursing home. The book can be used as a self-help tool or as a modified curriculum for in-services. Numerous handouts and displays familiarize, remind, or deepen the understanding of staff, supervisors, and administrators who want to implement these proven techniques. In addition, tracking forms help staff track residents' behaviors and their own responses to them.