Jeff Hooper
Title of PhD-thesis:
The development of Criteria for defining sedative music, and its impact on adults with mild, moderate and severe intellectual disability and challenging behavior
Supervisor:
Professor Tony Wigram
Examining Committee:
Associate Professor Ulla Holck, Aalborg University (Chair)
Professor Raymond MacDonald, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland
Professor Denise Grocke, University of Melbourne, Australia
Abstract:
A person with an intellectual disability is limited intellectually, and s/he experiences differing degrees of cognitive, language, motor and social impairments. Intellectual disability is also associated with unusual behaviours: aggression, destructiveness, self-injury and stereotyped mannerisms. Currently they are collectively known as ‘challenging’ behaviour. The intellectual disability population is also pre-disposed towards mental illness, and therefore, challenging behaviour may also be driven by maladaptive ways of dealing with anxiety.
This thesis discusses characteristics of challenging behaviour, and current interventions linked both to a clinician's view of the aetiology of challenging behaviour, and the theoretical approach s/he adopts when attempting to understand human behaviour. Psychodynamic, behaviourist, cognitive, humanistic and psychopharmacological interventions are reviewed; and, although there is evidence supporting the efficacy of each intervention, arguments are presented for the use of background music as an alternative cost-effective and labour free intervention.
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The defence:
Time: 04.11.10 at 13.00 – 17.00
Place: Room 3.115 at Kroghstræde 3, Aalborg University
The defence will be followed by a reception hosted by Department of Communication and Psychology
Everybody is welcome to the defence.