Popular topics: Behaviour

Many DTA training items touch on the topic of responsive behaviours (known clinically as BPSD). Tagged resources and courses focus on aspects of addressing and preventing these behaviours and mood disturbances in people with dementia.

Browse our courses, modules, resources, articles and events tagged with: Behaviour

Online module

Care Planning and Interventions

This module draws together the learnings from modules 1-8 and leads you through planning care and implementing strategies that will lead to optimal care for patients with any form of cognitive impairment.
This module is part of the course(s):
The view from here - acute care
Suitable for people working in:
Acute Care
Foundational
Module 9
45 mins

Online module

Neuropathology

This module introduces you to the basic neuropathology of dementia and the responsive behaviours associated with dementia.
This module is part of the course(s):
The view from here - acute care
Suitable for people working in:
Acute Care
Foundational
Module 1
40 mins

Online module

Case study – aggressive behaviour

We consider the nature of aggressive behaviour and how identifying the underlying issues allows interventions to be trialled. Caring for someone from a culturally and linguistically diverse background who is living with dementia is explored through case study.

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard:

1 2 3
This module is part of the course(s):
Understanding changed behaviour
Suitable for people working in:
All care settings
Foundational
Module 7
30 mins

Online module

Case study – anxiety and depression

This module explores the characteristics of depression and anxiety in the context of dementia and the cultural considerations when caring for people with dementia from an Indigenous background.

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard:

1 2 3
This module is part of the course(s):
Understanding changed behaviour
Suitable for people working in:
All care settings
Foundational
Module 6
30 mins

Online module

Case study – wandering behaviour

Using a case study, we describe wandering in the context of dementia, explore how to use tools and models to assess it and strategies to trial.

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard:

1 2 3
This module is part of the course(s):
Understanding changed behaviour
Suitable for people working in:
All care settings
Foundational
Module 5
30 mins

Online module

Evaluating effectiveness of strategies

This module steps you through the methods and processes you can use to identify whether a particular intervention has been effective, and how effective it has been. We use agitation as an example.

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard:

1 2 3
This module is part of the course(s):
Understanding changed behaviour
Suitable for people working in:
All care settings
Foundational
Module 4
30 mins

Online module

Planning and implementing strategies

This module steps you through how you can use a person-centred approach to design an appropriate system of intervention for someone exhibiting changed behaviour.

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard:

1 2
This module is part of the course(s):
Understanding changed behaviour
Suitable for people working in:
All care settings
Foundational
Module 3
30 mins

Online module

What are changed behaviours?

This module introduces changed behaviours, the concept of behaviour communicating needs and how using frameworks can help you to address them.

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard:

1 2 3
This module is part of the course(s):
Understanding changed behaviour
Suitable for people working in:
All care settings
Foundational
Module 1
30 mins