I've always found that if caregivers understood some of the reasons for difficult and challenging behaviour it helps them to deal with it better. There may be just one cause for such changes, or a number of unrelated causes that you need to think about to help resolve their more destructive aspects. In this SharePost I have put together some of the relevant information, with links to more that I hope will help.

It is worth remembering that, as I have pointed out before, it is often...