The book No Fighting, No Biting, No Screaming: How to Make Behaving Positively Possible for People with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities was published by Jessica Kingsley in september 2010. The book is aimed at staff and parents who spend time in everyday life with children or adults with developmental disabilities such as autism, Asperger's syndrome, ADHD, Tourette's syndrome, intellectual disabilities or Down's syndrome.
It's main focus is how to prevent and manage behavior such as saying no, running away, hitting, slapping, kicking, biting, throwing of furniture, threatening and even running in school corridors and chewing gum in the classroom. The main concept is that is is not the behavior that is the problem, but parents and staff's ability to handle it. That's why the book has a clear focus on method and how to's, where preventive methods based on stress theory is the base, and where managing methods on adjustment of demands, diversion and low arousal approach based on neuroscience and affect theory creates a frame for interaction in everyday life.
The book has a clear focus on the responsibility of staff and parents, which means that traditional treatment methods based in psychodynamics, cognitive behavioral theory or systemic theory is not covered at all. The reason for this is that it is much more effective and a lot easier to change staff and parent's attitudes and methods and thereby change the interaction than to change the behavior of the child or service-user in a treatment setting, but also ethical issues concerning the right of the free will of the child or service-user and the role as a professional carer.
The first half of the book concerns theory on how we think about the child or service-user and his or her behavior and what science has taught us about that in the last 20 years. The last half of the book is on hands on methods concerning adjusting of demands, stress management, low arousal approaches and diversion. .
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