Challenging Behaviour in Dementia: A Person-centred Approach

Understanding socially disruptive behaviour in dementia is never easy. Most explanations offer neither solace nor solutions for families and carers, and treatment is often characterised by policies of control and containment. This book, which is the result of the authors 15 years of clinical work with people who are challenging, dispute the traditional medical model of dementia.

• Contrasts the medical interpretation that sees anti-social behaviour as mere symptoms of disease with a person-centred interpretation that resonates change and resolution.
• Offers a radical and innovative interpretation of challenging behaviour consistent with the new culture of dementia care, focusing on needs to be met rather than problems to be managed.

Contents:   204pp, paperback

Chapters:

• Dementia ‘No Longer a Silent Epidemic’
• Assessment of Behaviour in Dementia
• The ‘Medical Disease’ the model of dementia
• A person with dementia
• The environmental context of Dementia
• The needs of people with dementia
• Taxonomies of possible explanations
• Behavioural, ecobehavioural and functional analysis
• Resolution therapy
• Resolution: needs to be met, not problems to be managed
• Working with unmet need
• The challenge of confusion.

Who Will Benefit from this Book?

Challenging Behaviour in Dementia is suitable for carers and care homes providing care for people with dementia.  This book is an invaluable resource for carers of people with dementia that may display challenging behaviours and offers valuable information on how to manage challenging behaviours in dementia. A must have resource.