A person's actions, words or gestures exhibited as a way of responding to something negative, frustrating or confusing in their social and physical environment.

Behaviours that cause harm, injury, or damage to a person’s body, often as an expression of personal distress. Self-harming behaviour might include cutting, burning, head-banging, hitting, biting, pinching, severe scratching, swallowing objects, and self-poisoning.

Acts which are repeated over and over again and which seem to be without any apparent adaptive function unlike other behaviours (such as many instinctive acts) which, although often formally very stereotyped in form, clearly fulfil an adaptive purpose.

Having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner.

The act or process of accepting someone as a patient or resident at a health or social care service.

Discontinuing all medical treatments aimed at prolonging life. This does not include the withdrawing of comfort measures. Allowing natural death encompasses DNAR.

A process conducted by a suitably qualified professional to determine a person's ability to understand information and make decisions for themselves at a particular point in time about a specific issue.

A process conducted by a suitably qualified professional to identify, understand and manage a person's behavioural needs.

When neither basic (heart compressions and ventilation) nor advanced (defibrillator or medicines) life-preserving interventions should be performed.

A measure of an individual’s level of function and ability to perform specific tasks on a safe and dependable basis over a defined period.

The practice of maintaining the cleanliness of hands for the purposes of infection prevention and control.

Test(s) carried out within a specified population for the purpose of identifying potential disease(s).