Challenging behaviour (2024)

FAQs

What are examples of challenging behaviors? ›

Challenging behaviour describes behaviour that is challenging to parents, carers, teachers and other professionals. Challenging behaviour can include tantrums, hitting or kicking other people, throwing things or self-harming.

3). General categories of challenging behaviors include aggression, stereotypy, self-injurious, or disruptive behaviors. These categories require additional description to allow reliable assessment and treatment procedures to be performed.

Because this approach can lead to labelling, stereotyping, and diagnostic overshadowing, the authors of this article argue that the term 'challenging behaviour' should be replaced with 'behaviours of concern' to highlight the ideal response of support rather than the challenge they must overcome.

Examples of verbal behaviours that challenge include: • Shouting • Arguing • Screaming • Abuse, including use of offensive language • Threatening • Use of inappropriate terms, such as those that are sexist or racist • Name-calling.

Aggression (e.g. hitting, kicking, biting) Self-injurious behaviour (e.g. head banging, biting self, hitting self) Shouting/swearing. Sexualised behaviour in public.

How do you deal with person with challenging behaviour? ›

Fast triggers - as you might imagine these are the triggers that have an immediate effect and occur much closer to the behaviour. Fast triggers include: Being ignored. Being told to do something they don't know how to do.

Slow triggers - These are the things that are going on in the background and they often start a long time before the challenging behaviour. Slow triggers make challenging behaviour more likely to happen because they cause people not to feel at their best.

The person most likely to be harmed by challenging behaviour is the one behaving in a way that is challenging. People with learning disabilities may be more likely to exhibit certain types of challenging behaviour due to communication difficulties and frustration.

Children with autism spectrum disorders may exhibit behavioral challenges. Some examples of challenging behaviors may include tantrums, non-compliance, aggression, and inattention.

It takes many forms like rudeness, yelling, shunning, mobbing, gossiping, refusing to talk to or acknowledge others, harassing, incessant complaining to supervisors, ignoring directives, and slow working.

ABA aims to help children increase positive behaviour and reduce negative behaviour. It does this by reinforcing or rewarding positive behaviour so that it's more likely to happen again. Negative behaviour doesn't get attention, which means it's less likely to happen again.