Verbal behavior interventions grounded in applied behaviour analysis have emerged as central to supporting language and social communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. These ...

—Managing agitation in nursing home patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias could be improved by augmenting Minimum Data Set data with information from electronic medical records.

In the first large-scale study on resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (RREM) in nursing homes, researchers found a one-month prevalence of all RREM types of 20%. The sample consisted of 2,011 ...

Aggressive behavior can create challenges for healthcare professionals who care for people with Parkinson’s disease. Investigators studying aggressive outbursts toward caregivers were surprised to ...

Health care workers commonly experience aggression and violence at work, second only to law enforcement. That fact may bring to mind emergency room scenes in television dramas, but a new study of 98 ...

Children engage in a multitude of problem behaviour and managing such behaviours is an unavoidable responsibility of teachers in today’s schools. This study is conducted to assess the impact of an ...