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Learn to prevent, reduce, or eliminate disruptive behaviors at your long-term care facility with the practical strategies in this book.Nearly 80% of long-term care residents exhibit some level of challenging behavioral expressions stemming from a wide range of factors including depression, personal distress, declining physical function, or dementia. A 2015 National Mature Media award winner, this resource for professional and home-based caregivers provides easy-to-understand and powerfully effective ways to prevent or reduce the challenging behaviors of care recipients. Care partners will learn how to use proven intervention tools and strategies to identify and satisfy the needs that underlie challenging behaviors, and encourage and reinforce positive behaviors. INCLUDES: Exercises, forms, posters, and 40+ handouts as downloadable PDFs; intervention and behavior tracking forms; stress-management techniques to help caregivers; case studies and instructional displays; a five-step treatment plan using a preventative approachThis user-friendly book can be used for in-service training of long-term care staff, as a curriculum for students, in workshops for family caregivers, or as a reference for mental health professionals.