Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery: a podcast series from the Living With Disability Research Centre
Disability Practice: Safeguarding Quality and Service Delivery is a new podcast series based upon the book of the same name, which is available as a free e-book from Springer.
Each episode coincides with one of the book’s chapters, featuring discussions the chapter’s author and a series of take-home messages[JP1] to apply to disability service delivery.
This series has been facilitated by Emeritus Professor Christine Bigby AO, Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University, and Dr. Alan Hough, director of Purpose at Work, who co-edited the Disability Practice book.
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Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery: a podcast series from the Living With Disability Research Centre
Supporting People with Complex and Challenging Behaviour
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This episode is based upon the chapter of the same name, by Laura Hogan and Christine Bigby in the book Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery (Bigby & Hough, 2023).
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This episode addresses supporting people exhibiting behaviour which falls outside expected social norms and is harmful to themselves or others.
Challenging behaviour is more common among people with intellectual disabilities than other groups of people with disability.
The extent of the challenging behaviour and negative impact it has on quality of life. The chapter highlights the importance of designing services and developing practice skills to provide quality support to this group.
