The Importance of Managing Behaviors which Pose Challenges
المؤلف:
COSTAS JOANNIDES
المصدر:
Caring for People with Learning Disabilities
الجزء والصفحة:
P38-C3
2025-10-07
202
The Importance of Managing Behaviors which Pose Challenges
KEY POINTS
• ‘Challenging behavior’ is a complex term to defi ne and understand; it is a term that is used often and can lead to prejudgments and stigmatization.
• Challenging behavior is functional; it may be an indication of physical discomfort, pain, emotional distress, mental illness or conflicts in the per son’s environment.
• A person’s behavior will be defined as challenging when it is judged by another to be socially unacceptable and when it evokes significant negative emotional responses in the other.
• Long-term, effective support for carers working with adults with learning disabilities with challenging behavior is essential, as working in these situations is often stressful and difficult.
We will address issues centered on supporting and caring for adults with learning disabilities whose behaviors may pose problems. Management and care strategies will be discussed and outlined, and interventions will be examined and placed within the context of ‘normalization’ principles under pinning learning disability care and provision. The overall aim is to explore the issue of the phenomenon commonly described as ‘challenging behavior’. An explanation will be sought concerning assumptions, such as ‘Is challenging behavior an innate part of an individual’s character or person, or is it a socially constructed product which one can assume can be deconstructed by creative strategies?’
Challenging behavior is a label – in a field in which there are already too many. Carers and services often use the label in circumstances in which a person is behaving in unusual or dangerous ways. Such behaviors include self-injury, aggression, destruction of the environment, fire-setting, faecal smearing and others. In such circumstances, challenging behavior is very real.
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