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HELP Flowchart: Understanding behaviours that challenge. A guide to assessment and treatment.

HELP Flowchart: Understanding behaviours that challenge. A guide to assessment and treatment.

Phase 3: CARE in Practice

Diagnostic framework for behaviours that challenge. A flowchart meant to guide family physicians or psychiatrists when a patient is brought in because of mental distress or behavioural concerns. Reproduced from Bradley E, Korossy M. HELP with behaviours that challenge. J Dev Disabil 2016;22(2):101-20. Available from: http://oadd.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/41023-JoDD-22-2-v10f-101-120-Bradley-and-Korossy.pdf Copyright Elspeth Bradley, 2016

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