1st Edition

Managing Challenging Behaviour Following Acquired Brain Injury Assessment, Intervention and Measuring Outcomes

Edited By Nick Alderman, Andrew Worthington Copyright 2024
232 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This 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... Read more

Section 1: Origins of challenging behaviour

Chapter 1: Outcomes from acquired brain injury: prevalence and impact of challenging behaviour

Nick Alderman and Andrew Worthington

Chapter 2: The intervention model: frameworks, principles, and practice

Nick Alderman

Chapter 3: A legal framework for the management of challenging behaviour

Darren Smith and Andrew Worthington

Section 2: Assessment and formulation: general principles and methods

Chapter 4: Assessment of behavioural risk in acquired brain injury

Paul Mooney

Chapter 5: Determining the cause: recording behaviour using direct observation methods

Nick Alderman

Section 3: Intervention

Chapter 6: Neurobehavioural rehabilitation and application of new learning methods

Andrew Worthington and Nick Alderman

Chapter 7: Behaviour support in the context of neurobehavioural rehabilitation

Paul Mooney, Jenny Brooks and Niall Diggin

Chapter 8: Management of aggression after acquired brain injury

Nick Alderman

Chapter 9: What can behavioural interventions contribute to rehabilitation for inappropriate sexual behaviour post-acquired brain injury?

Caroline Knight

Chapter 10: Managing behaviours that challenge in acute care settings

Alistair Teager and Abigail Methley

Chapter 11: The clinical realities of delivering neurobehavioural rehabilitation in the community

Jenny Brooks and Clark Gilkes

Chapter 12: Managing behaviour in functional neurological disorders

Andrew Worthington, Abigail Methley and Alistair Teager

Biography

Nick Alderman is Senior Clinical Director, Head of Psychology and Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at Elysium Neurological Services, Elysium Healthcare, UK, and Honorary Professor at Swansea University, UK. He is acknowledged as an expert in neurobehavioural rehabilitation, having accrued over four decades' experience in this field. He has combined successful careers in both clinical and academic psychology, and has a proven track record in treatment innovation, service development, leadership, research and teaching. Research interests include the role of executive function impairment in challenging behaviour and the development of bespoke outcome and other measurement instruments for use in neurorehabilitation.

Andrew Worthington is Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences at Swansea University and has been a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist for over 30 years. He is the director of Headwise, an independent practice for children and adults with brain injury, and is an expert in neurorehabilitation. He has lectured and published widely in the field across a range of neuropsychological conditions and has a particular clinical interest in the management of executive and behaviour disorders.