A Fresh Challenge: New guidance and policy to support people with learning

A Fresh Challenge: New guidance and policy to support people with learning
disabilities who present behavioural challenges

Wednesday 23 January 2008, London 

In 2007, a joint working group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the
British Psychological Society, in consultation with the Royal College of Speech
and Language Therapists produced a new Council Report, 'Challenging
behaviour: a unified approach'.  The report provides clinical and service
guidelines for supporting people with learning disabilities who present
behavioural challenges and are at risk of receiving abusive or restrictive
practices. The working group was greatly assisted by Professor Jim Mansell who
at the same time has been revising his original report from 1993 on services for
people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour with mental health
needs.

This conference aims to explore how these two complementary publications can
direct the future development of services for people who present challenges and
how to enable people to think about ways in which they can plan and implement
changes by engaging service users and carers in a collaborative approach to
service provision and development. 

For more information visit
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/a%20fresh%20challenge%20confJan08.pdf