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Informationen zum Autor Sally Austen is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and author who has specialised in the field of mental health and deafness for 15 years. She has worked with deaf people with mental health problems, deafened adults in health psychology and audiology problems, deafened adults in health psychology and audiology fora and with cochlear implant programs. She has special interest in the prevention of mental health problems in deaf people, non-organic deafness and interpreter training. Dave Jeffery is a Violence and Personal Safety Specialist Advisor and has worked with deaf people for ten years. He is currently employed by Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust Risk Management Department. Klappentext Challenging behaviours such as aggression and violence are more common in deaf people than hearing people. The assumption that being deaf inevitably leads to an increase in such behaviours is strongly challenged by exploring the avoidable causal factors. Multi-disciplinary professionals with specialist knowledge of working with deaf people explore aspects of mild to severe challenging behaviour with reference to its cause, assessment, prevention and management. This book will be of relevance to professionals and careers involved in the delivery of actual and potential aggression management in the fields of: Mental health Education Learning disability Speech and language therapy Prison and forensic services Audiology Nursing International contributors, providing a wealth of easily accessible knowledge, consider this extremely heterogeneous group from neuro-psychological, cognitive-behavioural, socio-political, service-user, psychodynamic and systemic perspectives. Deafness and Challenging Behaviour: The 360° Perspective aims to stimulate debate in contentious areas such as restraint practices and human rights, whilst bridging gaps in the application of culturally cogent service provision for the deaf communities. Special emphasis is placed in the needs of deaf sign language users. Zusammenfassung Challenging behaviours! such as aggression and violence! are more common in deaf people than hearing people. Filling a crucial gap in the international market! this book will appeal equally to those who work occasionally or entirely with Deaf or hearing impaired client groups of all ages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedications. Contributors. Preface. I. Introducing Deafness and Challenging Behaviour. 1. The Deaf Service User's Perspective of Challenging Behaviour and Restraint ( Sally Austen and Two Service Users ). 2. Unravelling the Anomaly of Deafness ( Di Baines ). 3. Bearing Witness: Challenging Behaviour and its Contribution to Trauma and Vicarious Trauma ( Dave Jeffery, Marian Crowley and Sally Austen ). 4. Diagnosis and Challenging Behaviour of Deaf People ( Sally Austen, Alison Gray and Steve Carney ). II. Aetiology of Challenging Behaviour. 5. Challenging Behaviour in the Young Deaf Child ( Rosie Kentish ). 6. Neuropsychological, Behavioural and Linguistic Factors in Challenging Behaviour in Deaf People ( Robin Paijmans ). 7. Psychodynamic Approaches to Understanding Challenging Behaviour ( Christine McPherson ). 8. Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Deafness and Challenging Behaviour ( Pat Collins and Steve Carney ). 9. Challenging Behaviours and Deaf Older Adults ( David M. Feldman and Kristyn Eck ). III. Managing Challenging Behaviour. 10. De-escalation and Deafness: Seeing the Signs? ( Dave Jeffery and Sally Austen ). 11. Showing Restraint: Therapeutic Holding with Deaf People in Crisis ( Dave Jeffery ). 12. A Model for Restraint Prevention in Residential Treatment for Deaf Children ( Judith Vreeland ). 13. The Role of ...
