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Caring for People with Challenging Behaviors: Essential Skills and Successful Strategies in Long-Term Care
Stephen Weber Long
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Description for Caring for People with Challenging Behaviors: Essential Skills and Successful Strategies in Long-Term Care
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JKSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 463.
The newly revised edition of this popular resource provides caregiving staff with easy-to-understand and powerfully effective ways to prevent, reduce, or eliminate the challenging behaviors of care recipients. Nearly 80% of long-term care residents exhibit some level of difficult behaviors stemming from a wide range of factors including depression, personal distress, declining physical function, or dementia. Care staff will learn how to use this book’s proven intervention tools and strategies to identify and satisfy the basic human needs that underlie challenging behaviors, as well as encourage and reinforce positive behaviors.
With detailed vignettes illustrating the successful implementation of each ... Read more
The newly revised edition of this popular resource provides caregiving staff with easy-to-understand and powerfully effective ways to prevent, reduce, or eliminate the challenging behaviors of care recipients. Nearly 80% of long-term care residents exhibit some level of difficult behaviors stemming from a wide range of factors including depression, personal distress, declining physical function, or dementia. Care staff will learn how to use this book’s proven intervention tools and strategies to identify and satisfy the basic human needs that underlie challenging behaviors, as well as encourage and reinforce positive behaviors.
With detailed vignettes illustrating the successful implementation of each ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Health Professions Press,U.S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9781938870125
SKU
V9781938870125
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Stephen Weber Long
Stephen Weber Long, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. Dr. Long practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy, provides staff training to extended care-facilities in the United States, and is a consultant to extended-care administrators and supervisors.
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