'Environments of concern': reframing challenging behaviour within a human rights approach.
While disability is recognised by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as an evolving concept, the language of positive behaviour support has not kept pace with the current human rights-based approach. The widely-used terms 'challenging behaviour' and 'beha...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Developmental Disabilities Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 95 - 101 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2023
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