Experienced and inexperienced health care workers' beliefs about challenging behaviours.

摘要: Within a behavioural framework, staff responses to challenging behaviours have been identified as likely ensure the long-term maintenance of such behaviour. However, little has done understand why behave they do. The present paper hypothesized that staff's beliefs about causes may be an important factor in determining it. Beliefs three topographies behaviour (self-injury, stereotypy and aggression) were elicited from 148 experienced 98 inexperienced institutional nursing students using questionnaire measure. Results showed participants held more consistent with contemporary theories than participants. Experienced also distinguished between terms their causes. These data interpreted reflecting 'needs-based' rather 'functional' approach intervention for behaviours. Implications training, community living future research on briefly considered.