DSP II Unit 2 Flashcards
Person centered practice
Services and support plans based on the choices and goals of the individual supported.
- Individual is involved in the process.
- Builds collaborative, professional relationships with the individual and their support team
- Provides services that help the person achieve their goals.
- Works in partnership with the individual to track progress toward goals and adjusts services as needed for the individual.
- Gathers and reviews information about an individual to provide quality service.
Person Centered Plans
Developed to assist individuals, families and their support network to plan goals and futures
- Clear and shared appreciation of the talents and capacities of the person
- Common understanding of what the person wants
- Shared belief that everyone has the right to live, work, love, play and pursue their dreams.
Person-centered vs system-centered
how to fit people into a system to how do we support people to live their best life within their community.
System centered focuses on problems.
- professionals decide what is good for the person.
- Assumes the person needs to be fixed.
Person-centered looks at a person’s strengths and dreams and identifies barriers to that dream.
Circle of support
Categorizes the people in someone’s life.
Circle of:
Intimacy - love and trust. Family, So, Closest friends.
Friendship - Whom the person knows well. Neighborhood friends, church friends, teammates.
Participation - Acquaintances seen regularily. Workmates, neighbors
Exchange - Provide service for which they are paid. DSP, doctor, hairstylist, bus driver
MAP and PATH
use creative planning (lists, graphs, pictures) to develop goals and other elements of a plan.
Similarities:
- Requires investment on the part of the support team
- the process is intense. Requires thought, strength, and respect.
- requires two trained facilitators. One to facilitate and one to draw.
MAP
Making Action Plans
Broader person-centered planning
8 questions
- What is the person’s history and key life events?
- What is the dream/vision?
Core question when developing MAP
- What is the nightmare?
- Who is the person?
PATH
Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope
- Extremely structured
- designed to deal with complex issues.
- Creates a vision of hope and goals to achieve the dream.
- Values based on diversity, justice, belonging and support
- Helps identify resources needed to achieve the goal.
- Align their purpose
- Align their understanding of the situation
- Creates hope for the future
- Sets steps for change, mutual support and learning
8 Steps:
- To Touch the Dream
identify the North Star
- Sense the Goal.
defines goals that can be accomplished
- Grounding in the Now
What life is currently like for the person.
Snapshot of the person’s life now.
- Whom Do We Enroll?
supports the idea that we are interdependent and need to work together
- Recognizing Ways to Build Strength
Identify what is needed to gain and maintain strength to reach the goal
- help build capacity
- Charting Action for the Future
Repeats the vision but in a shorter time frame (3 months)
specific action steps are identified
- Planning Next Month’s Work
Specific action steps for the goals within the next month
What is going to happen
Who will do what
When will the goal be accomplished
- Committing to the First Step
Heath and wellness
DSP’s responsibilities
- Advocate for healthy choices
- Explain the importance of healthy choices
- Encourage people to make healthy choices
- Support the choices people make
Support a person to be healthy by
- Staying active
- Eat well and follow nutrition guidelines
- get routine check-ups and screenings
- prevent injury
- Avoid unhealthy habits
- Maintain spiritual well-being
- Maintain emotional well-being
Factors that impact health
Age
Genetics or family history
Ethnicity and Culture
Health conditions
Lifestyle choices
Environment
Healthy Lifestyle Wheel
Illustrates a holistic (whole person) approach to wellness
Emotional Health
Physical Health
Health through meaningful activities
Social health
Spiritual health
Dignity of Risk
The right of the individual to take risks when participating in life experiences and understanding that all experiences may not be positive.
The process of managing risk must promote an environment of safety and support while advocating independence and self-direction.
- show a reasonable understanding of the risks related to a choice.
reasonable risk
Informed choice
- identify possible risks
- Make a plan to reduce or eliminate the risks
- Minimize possible harm
Person First Language
A person is not their illness and should not be defined by it.
5 Healthy Lifestyle areas
Spiritual health
Emotional Health
Physical Health
Meaningful activities
Social Health
