The Handbook of High-Risk Challenging Behaviors in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

by Peter Sturmey (Foreword), Peter Sturmey (Foreword)

Aggressive and destructive behaviors are an ongoing challenge for many children, adolescents, and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). What's behind these high-risk behaviors and how can professionals help manage them? Discover the answers in this comprehensive text, the most up-to-date compendium of knowledge on addressing challenging behaviors in the least restrictive settings using evidence-based, empirically supported practices.
With contributions from more than 30 prominent clinicians and researchers, this book gives readers cutting-edge research and clear assessment and intervention guidelines in six key topic

320 pages, Paperback

First published December 13, 2011

Reviews

[Thomas Edmund]

As all textbooks with chapter authors, the quality of these piece varies greatly depending on the individual chapters. Some I found to be highly interesting and applicable (14, 4, 6). Whereas other chapters (5 and 11) were heavy on jargon and statistics.

Being a work related read the overall textbook was particularly helpful, in a few specific areas, namely restraint and risk management, but I felt at times lacked coherence, for example one chapter promoting punishment techniques whereas others promoting non-aversion. There was a sense of the book being a collection of authors general knowledge in each area, rather than a structured textbook (it does promise to be a handbook after all.)

[Osmund D]

I got it because it's going to be a textbook for classes in fall and I figured I might as well get a head start because all my good intentions of reading a textbook at the same pace as the lectures never quite work out.

Because I'll probably read it again later, I only gave it a quick read, but it covers some interesting topics.

Of course, some of the behaviours the book talks about are not exclusive to people with IDD and are treated in the same way they would be for the general population, such as alcoholism, but it goes into a variety of problems unique to people with IDD and a few techniques on how to improve the health and safety of everyone involved.