Description
Book SynopsisThis empirically based book provides conceptual knowledge and practical advice to enable clinicians to implement evidence-based methods drawn from learning theory for managing the catastrophic effects of challenging behaviour as an enduring outcome of acquired brain injury (ABI).
Based on a conceptual framework of neurobehavioural disability, the book takes a holistic case formulation approach, incorporating functional assessment procedures arising from the operant learning tradition that underpins the design of treatment interventions. It bridges the knowledge gap in uniquely providing a single resource to enable practitioners to implement evidence-based methods to better manage ABI behaviour disorders. The authors, who are leading experts in the field, have described a model of intervention based on a functional analytic approach to understanding behaviour within an operant learning framework. The chapters provide a step-by-step approach to assessment, formulation, intervent
Table of Contents
Section 1: Origins of challenging behaviour. 1. Outcomes from acquired brain injury: prevalence and impact of challenging behaviour. 2. The Intervention Model: frameworks, principles, and practice. 3. A legal framework for the management of challenging behaviour. Section 2: Assessment and formulation: general principles and methods. 4. Assessment of behavioural risk in acquired brain injury. 5. Determining the cause: recording behaviour using direct observation methods. Section 3: Intervention. 6. Neurobehavioural rehabilitation and application of new learning methods. 7. Behaviour support in the context of neurobehavioural rehabilitation. 8. Management of aggression after acquired brain injury. 9. What can behavioural interventions contribute to rehabilitation for inappropriate sexual behaviour post acquired brain injury? 10. Managing behaviours that challenge in acute care settings. 11. The clinical realities of delivering neurobehavioural rehabilitation in the community. 12. Managing behaviour in Functional Neurological Disorders.
