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Caring for people with challenging behaviors : essential skills and successful strategies in long-term care / by Stephen Weber Long.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Long, Stephen Weber, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caregivers--Psychology.
- Caregivers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland ; London ; Sydney : Health Professions Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "[this] book is outstanding...[it] not only effectively captures key human relationship and organizational needs, [it] presents the material in a way that can be easily understood and taught in residential settings that often cannot devote more than small blocks of time to training." --Catherine Johnson, Psy.D., Licensed Long-Term Care.
- Contents:
- Why who need care do what they do
- Encouraging positive behaviors
- Finding solutions to challenging behaviors
- Stress and the roles of thinking and feeling
- Addressing mental health needs with advance directives and the practice of forgiveness
- Obstacles to using effective techniques
- Treatment planning.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781938870354
- 1938870352
- OCLC:
- 1527722276
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