Managing Behaviors

1. Safety of patient and all people, including your

• environmental considerations

  • jewelry/clothing

  • environmental set-up

  • de-escalation

  • counting every item

2. Know the rules and regulations of your setting and be prepared to carry out your responsibilities. This may mean certification in a particular behavioral management method

3. If behavior is not likely to cause immediate and significant disruption or harm, decide how to support the person according to needs and capacities in the moment

• support can be that the person is not ready for group participation on that day

• can be putting them in isolation, shot of Ativan, or going back to their room

4. Given your limitations in time and environment, decide whether support from the

team is needed

5. Try your best to stay truthful and genuine. Try not to fed into

thoughts/beliefs that are not reality

Humanism

• remember behaviors are produced out of an unmet need

Rogers Humanistic concepts

• respect

• genuineness

• nonjudgemental acceptance

• deep understanding

• self-actualization

• occupational competence and motivation

• spirituality