Challenging Behaviour and Learning Disabilities: Prevention and Interventions for People with Learning Disabilities Whose Behaviour Challenges

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This guideline has been developed to advise on the management and support of people with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges, and prevention of behaviour and challenges. This guideline covers children (aged 12 years or younger), young people (aged 13 to 17 years) and adults (aged 18 years or older).

The guideline recommendations have been developed by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, people who care for those with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges and guideline methodologists after careful consideration of the best available evidence. It is intended that the guideline will be useful to clinicians and service commissioners in providing and planning high-quality care for people with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges while also emphasising the importance of the experience of care for people with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges and their families and carers.

Although the evidence base is rapidly expanding, there are a number of major gaps. The guideline makes a number of research recommendations specifically to address gaps in the evidence base. In the meantime, it is hoped that the guideline will assist clinicians, and people with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges and their families and carers, by identifying the merits of particular treatment approaches where the evidence from research and clinical experience exists.