BO HEJLSKOV ELVÉN
Challenging behaviour in autism is often a result of people placing too high demands on autistic peoples’s abilities and skills. This lecture points out why challenging behaviour occurs and how staff and parent’s thinking affects how they manage it. Bo then presents a model for interventions: managing, evaluating and changing the situations where challenging behaviour occurs.
Bo Hejlskov Elvén is a lic. EuroPsy, psychologist based in Malmö, Sweden. He has 25 years of experience in working with parents and staff around challenging behaviour.
His field is care and special education, mainly concerning children and adults with developmental disabilities such as autism, Asperger’s syndrome, ADHD or intellectual disabilities. He also work in the psychiatric field and in juvenile correction facilities.The basis of his methods is developmental neuropsychology, stress and affect theory. The methods are part of an increasing knowledge base in the tradition often named Low Arousal Approach.
Bo has written a number of books on the subject, translated into 15 languages. In Finnish is:
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Elvén, Bo Hejlskov: Kenen ongelma? Haastavat tilanteet koulun arjessa. Kehitysvammaliitto ry Oppimateriaalikeskus Opike, Helsinki, 2016 |