Behavior Management Strategies for Children with Special Needs
Presented by Deborah Boroughs
Non-Financial: Deborah Boroughs has no competing non-financial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
This course provides students with an overview of managing challenging behaviors of children with special health care needs in pediatric home care. The importance for the home care nurse to recognize that behavior is a form of communication is emphasized. Improper response by the nurse to challenging behavior can result in negative outcomes for the child and family. Home care nurses have a unique opportunity to provide behavior support to the child and family. This course will identify the (1) common causes of challenging behavior in children with special needs, (2) examples of challenging behaviors in these children with disabilities, and (3) core components of positive behavior support and communication for home care nurses.
Meet your instructor
Deborah Boroughs
Deborah Boroughs, RN, MSN, has extensive professional and personal experience in the management of medically complex children. As an advanced practice nurse, she led a professional team of nurses and social workers as the director of the Pennsylvania Ventilator Assisted Children’s Home Program (VACHP), a Pennsylvania…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. All Behavior Is a Form of Communication
In this chapter, challenging behavior is defined. Challenging behavior can have an impact on the child’s general health and well-being. Children with cognitive impairments or speech deficits often use challenging behaviors to express their needs. It is common for children who display negative behaviors to receive personal attention. The pediatric home care nurse must endeavor to understand this form of communication to offer and implement successful interventions that minimize the behaviors and meet the needs of the child.
2. A Parent’s Perspective
This chapter presents an interview of a father who is a trauma nurse and an adoptive father of several children with special health care needs who also have behavioral disorders. At the time of adoption, he was unaware that several of the children had behavior disorders in addition to significant medical needs. His perspective for successful management of challenging behaviors is highlighted.
3. A Practical Guide for Positive Behavioral Support by Pediatric Home Care Nurses
Strategies for behavioral management of pediatric patients with special health care needs for home care nurses is offered in this chapter. Scenarios are used to illustrate successful interventions of behavioral support by pediatric home care nurses.
More courses in this series
Behavior Management Strategies for Children with Special Needs
Deborah Boroughs
Introduction to Pediatric Home Care Nursing: Children and Adolescents
Deborah Boroughs
Pediatrics: Home Care Nursing of the Complex, Fragile Child
Deborah Boroughs
Introduction to Pediatric Home Care: Infants and Toddlers
Deborah Boroughs
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