Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index.
Contents:
Families are fascinating -- Families coping -- Back to basics : communication -- Consequences -- Friends and family: actions and reactions -- Lies, manipulations, and control freakery -- Difficult scenes and destructive relationships -- Resources creating 24 hour best care -- Professionals and carers' pressures, problems and pleasures -- Confidentiality : a very thorny issue -- More assumptions, perceptions, and interpretations -- Constructive professional/carer conversations -- Challenging the behaviour -- Communications in difficult days (decades) -- Actively helping carers cope -- Put on your own mask first.
Summary:
Based on interviews with both professionals and families/carers, this book aims to improve communication between both groups in order to provide a greater level of support for the troubled individual at the centre.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.