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Challenging behaviour teams have been established by many health and social services departments in order to provide well organized, highly skilled, peripatetic support and intervention in the community for people with learning disability whose behaviour is difficult to manage. Some of these teams are truly peripatetic, others form the outreach component of a unit-based service. This chapter describes the experience of setting up and operating, since January 1989, a specialist peripatetic team — the Behavioural Services Team (BST).
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McBrien, J. (1994). The Behavioural Services Team for people with learning disabilities. In: Emerson, E., McGill, P., Mansell, J. (eds) Severe Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviours. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2961-7_8
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