Behavioral Intervention Team Policy REFERENCE NUMBER: 1058 The Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT) at Hutchinson Community College (HCC) exists to provide a structured, positive method for addressing student behaviors that impact the HCC community and may involve health and/or safety issues. The BIT strives to eliminate "fragmented care," to manage each case individually, and to initiate appropriate intervention without resorting to punitive measures. BIT Members BIT membership consists of the Coordinator of Advising, Career Development, and Counseling Services who will serve as the BIT Chair. In the Coordinator 's absence, the Vice President of Student Services will serve as Chair.
Research shows that Alzheimer’s disease may triple in the coming decades. In 2004, the annual cost averages $60,000.00 for nursing home care in the United States. Prolonging home care will cut that amount. The study did not provide a cost analysis but future research should consider this topic. Another strength is that the study demonstrates that evidence based interventions are effective for caregivers, including all caregivers not just of Alzheimer’s patients (Mittelman, et el., 2006).
People can recognise this by being as supportive as possible. Carers, friends and family, can help a person with dementia to feel valued and included. Support should be sensitive to the person as an individual, and focus on promoting their wellbeing and meeting their needs. When supporting a person with dementia, it can be helpful for carers to have an understanding of the impact the condition has on that person. This includes understanding how the person might think and feel, as these things will affect how they behave.
Going through this uncertainty and confusion often causes people to retreat to the safety of established memories, and they begin to lose awareness of the world around them. Nurses and other care givers who have never met these behaviors before often do not know how to respond when a person with dementia asks difficult questions, such as requesting to see a mother who has passed away. It can also be difficult to know how to reply if they believe they need to go to work or collect children from school. It is important to remember, in the later stages communication is most challenging, that continuing to interact with the person who has dementia is more important than ever.
Patients with Alzheimer's, when informed, will become depressed knowing they will soon lose all their memories. People with Alzheimer’s may dwell on the fact that their life is ending and they will be a burden on their family. Some say one should be informed of their disease because they should know of their well-being. They believe one would benefit from knowing and live their lives to the fullest. Others don't agree with this because once one is told their lives are basically over one won't be able to enjoy the rest of their lives as they did before.
In this report I am going to assess ways in which different types of dementia affect an individual and also the individual’s family and friends. Due to the symptoms and consequences of dementia, a major impact on individual is the feeling of insecurity and the loss of confidence in themselves and their abilities. This can increase a sense of loss of control which in turn may result in the individuals doubting themselves and losing trust in their own judgements. These problems are made worse by the reaction of the people around them that are closest to them, such as friends and family and colleagues will begin to respond to them differently and not treat them in the same way as before.
Student Name: Kayla Stradomski Course # and Section/Time: COMM 101 DAH; Monday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:50 p.m. Topic: Alzheimer’s disease General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose Statement: To educate my audience on the aspects of Alzheimer’s disease. INTRODUCTION Attention Getter: Can you imagine your life if your memories and cognition slowly started deteriorating?
After observing the clients behavior, it is evident that she has a problem limiting her excessive cellular device usage. Therefore, the behavioral intervention plan will be targeting the client’s cellular device usage in class, as well as outside of class. The plan will be targeting all cellular device usage, which includes playing games, texting, scrolling though social media sites, and finally listening to music. To prevent the client from using her phone during lectures, the behavioral plan instructed her professors to make her write an essay whenever she is using her phone.
This study can lead to focusing on more specific sectors of care such as a dementia care unit. My focus on nursing homes and assisted living facilities could easily be mimicked in home care, hospitals, hospice and other avenues of caring for sick or elderly people. Awareness found through the practice of research is a helpful way to improve health care for people of all ages and
What is Alzheimer 's Disease? Alzheimer 's disease is a serious disease that affects more than five million Americans. This disease doesn 't just affect the person who has it, families are drastically affected too. In many cases, caregivers are needed to insure the person can be safe. Alzheimer 's disease comes with warning signs, and the warning signs that someone you know or love could have Alzheimer 's are, memory loss that disrupts daily life, challenges in planning or solving problems, difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, at work, or at leisure, confusion with time or place, trouble understanding visual image and spatial relationships, new problems with words in speaking or writing, misplacing things and losing the
Although there are over 5000 indigenous communities around the world, the global responsibility to protect the indigenous is not being realized, since Indigenous communities still suffer socio-economical disadvantages, marginalization, discrimination and denial of justice to a certain extent. This is evident throughout the world, in nations such as Australia and Canada, which pride themselves on their nations freedom, equality and safely. Australia despite being a first world nation has immensely failed at protecting it’s indigenous population, most notably it’s Indigenous youth, since over 80% of youth suicides in 2010 were of young Aborigines. Early intervention is the key to protecting Aborigines, as commented by Social Justice Minster,
When looking at reviews on interventions used with children with asd it appears not all are effective there are features of some that are more effective than others. There has been a great level of importance placed on the key features that promote the effectiveness and that start the intervention process as early as possible that most children benefit from over 15 hours per week of intervention, the more the better. Including interventions were parents and carers can be involved. Interventions that seem to show the most affect are behavioural approaches and those that address the issues of social communication. There is no intervention that will reduce symptoms of autism, there are ones that focus on improving life skills and other abilities
3.3 Economic and social impact of Alzheimer’s disease When talking about Alzheimer's, it is common to focus solely on the cognitive and functional challenges associated with the disease; however, its impact is far-reaching. Emerging as one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, Alzheimer's is increasingly drawing attention to its profound social and economic ramifications. Discussion of Alzheimer's disease therefore necessitates a holistic view, encompassing the significant socio-economic implications it imposes on society. Alzheimer's not only substantially escalates healthcare expenses, but also profoundly impacts the quality of life (QoL) for both those afflicted and their caregivers. With population aging and other demographic shifts,
The role of family based interventions in the prevention of substance abuse in Adolescents; Over the past few decades, Substance use and abuse among adolescents has continued to be important public health concerns that contribute greatly to morbidity throughout globally. The present essay aimed to investigate the family role in the prevention of substance use in adolescents. For several years, substantial research efforts have been undertaken to understand the epidemiology of substance use and abuse. The knowledge gained from these research studies has been important in understanding and developing effective prevention and treatment approaches. According to various datasets, the prevalence of drug use, alcohol and tobacco increases rapidly
Psychosocial Treatments for Alcohol Dependence Syndrome A variety of psychosocial treatments have been used in the treatment of alcohol use disorders along with pharmacological treatment and their efficacy has also been reviewed (Miller & Wilbourne 2002; Holder et al., 1991, McKay & Maisto 1993). The most widely used empirically supported psychosocial approaches are brief interventions, motivational interviewing and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), including coping skills training, relapse prevention and behavioural couple’s therapy (Miller and Wilbourne, 2002; Carroll and Onken, 2005). In this section we explore the various interventions available for persons with AUDs. Brief interventions Brief interventions are the first level of treatment
