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ABCs to Change Behavior. A = Antecedents B = BehaviorC = Consequences. It Seems so Simple?ABC. So Why Are All of You HERE?Why Do We Struggle So with the People who have Brain Changes or Impairments?. Why Is ABC So Difficult for these People?. MANY abilities are affectedThoughtsWordsActionsFeelingsIt is variable Moment to momentMorning to nightDay to dayPerson to personPlace to place Some changes are predictable BUT complicatedSpecific brain partsTypical spreadSome parts preserved.
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1. A Team Approach to Managing and Changing Challenging Behaviors
2. ABCs to Change Behavior A = Antecedents
B = Behavior
C = Consequences
3. It Seems so SimpleABC So Why Are All of You HERE?
Why Do We Struggle So with the People who have
Brain Changes or Impairments?
4. Why Is ABC So Difficult for these People? MANY abilities are affected
Thoughts
Words
Actions
Feelings
It is variable
Moment to moment
Morning to night
Day to day
Person to person
Place to place
Some changes are predictable BUT complicated
Specific brain parts
Typical spread
Some parts preserved
If it is progressive
More brain dies over time
Different parts get hit
Constant changing
5. What Do We Notice First in the ABC Model?In most cases B comes before A
6. Start with BWhat behaviors are we talking about? List BEHAVIORS you would consider for using the ABC approach
7. My Examples No F PoA or HC PoA
Losing Important Things
Getting Lost
Unsafe task performance
Repeated calls & contacts
Refusing
Bad mouthing you to others
Making up stories
Resisting/refusing care
Swearing & cursing
Making 911 calls
Mixing day & night
No solid sleep time
Not following care/rx plans
No initiation
Perseveration
Paranoid/delusional thinking
Shadowing
Eloping or Wandering
Seeing things & people
Getting into things
Threatening caregivers
Undressing in public
Pxs w/intimacy & sexuality
Being rude
Feeling sick
Use of drugs or alcohol to cope
Striking out at others
Falls & injuries
Contractures & immobility
Infections & pneumonias
Pxs w/ eating or drinking
8. How Do Our Lists Compare? Match?
Mis-Match?
Why?
9. What If We Categorize Annoying not a big issue, but wearing over time takes time away from other responsibilities
Risky could cause harm to self or others, not always dangerous, but can be unpredictable as to when it will be serious
Dangerous puts the person, the care provider, other people, or equipment in jeopardy or at immediate risk for injury
10. We tend to ABC the Dangerous BehaviorsTry to care plan or respond to the Risky Behaviors when we see themExpect or put up with the Annoying Behaviors until
11. Then Go to the A Antecedents
What is DRIVING the Behavior?
12. What Makes BEHAVIORS Happen? SIX pieces
The type & level of cognitive impairment NOW
The person & who they have been
Personality, preferences & history
Other medical conditions & sensory status
The environment setting, sound, sights
The whole day how things fit together
People - How the helper helps -
Approach, behaviors, words, actions, & reactions
13. A Quick Example of Complexity One piece of one part of the puzzle called antecedents
15. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Alzheimers Disease Progression vs. Normal Brains
17. So A Quick Look at C Consequences What Happens?
18. What Happens? Traditionally We wait till it gets dangerous or at least risky
We blame
We knee jerk react
We treat the immediate
We become parental
We become judges
We give up
We go thru the motions
We go to drugs #1
anti-anxiety & anti-psychotic Non-Traditionally ABC Annoying behaviors
Become a detective
Get EVERYONE involved early and often
Re-look & monitor - lots
Change what is easiest first
Change what can be controlled
Celebrate all improvements
Start by changing OURSELVES
19. What Can YOU Control? OR NOT! CONTROL
The environment setting, sound, sights
The whole day how things fit together
How the helper helps -
Approach, behaviors, words, actions, & reactions NOT CONTROL
The person & who they have been
Personality, preferences & history
The type & level of impairment NOW
Other medical conditions & sensory status
20. For your persons with problem behaviorsREFRAMEGet interested and excitedbe challenged!
21. Describe the Behavior Consider video to investigate
Use objective language to describe THE BEHAVIOR
Investigate NON-CHALLENGING BEHAVIOR - investigate what is going on when the behavior is NOT happening..
Check it out from all perspectives 360
22. Investigate Carefully!!! From Microscope to Telescope.
Use a sensory approach
look, listen, feel, smell, taste, movement
Check out the environment
Look at public, personal, intimate space issues
Get in their shoes & position
Pay attention to cues and responses
Look at timing, sequencing, & responses
23. Why a Team? Life happens 24/7
These ABCs complicated & multi-factorial
The ABCs affect everyone
Each person will decide to participate or not
To optimize positive outcomes, it works best if we
Have a common goal
Start off in the same place
Have a game plan
Move in a planned, consistent direction
Check in regularly
Make adjustments as needed
CELEBRATE the AH HA moments & share the AH OHs
24. What Makes BEHAVIORS Happen? SIX pieces
The type & level of cognitive impairment NOW
The person & who they have been
Personality, preferences & history
Other medical conditions & sensory status
The environment setting, sound, sights
The whole day how things fit together
People - How the helper helps -
Approach, behaviors, words, actions, & reactions
25. Lets get started Example Clip