LO2 Flashcards
What is a PERSON CENTRED APPROACH?
- Balance between what is important to and what is important for a person.
- Enhancing voice, choice and control.
- Clarification of roles and responsibilities.
What are the PRINCIPLES of a person centred approach?
- Independence and rights.
- Co-production, choice and control.
- Inclusive and competent communities.
What does a person need to achieve Independence and rights?
- Right to live the way they want to.
- Right to be employed.
- Right to form meaningful relationships.
What does a person need to achieve co-production, choice and control?
- Treated as an equal partner in the decisions about their care.
- Make decisions about their life.
- Have more of what is important to them.
What does a person need to be part of an inclusive and competent community?
- Feel valued as a neighbour.
- Feel valued as an employee.
- Have friends and social contact.
- Reasons to go out each day.
- To be able to contribute.
- Access to community resources.
What is the role a person centred approach has in achieving good practice in the delivery of care services?
- A person involved in own treatment more likely to continue with it.
- When involved in decision making they are more knowledgeable and less anxious.
- Better relationship with the professionals as feel valued and respected.
What was the HISTORIC way of dealing with people who required care?
- Institutions
- Medical model
- Segregation
- No choice
- No dignity
What was the name of the movement that brought about a person centred approach for people needing care (particularly disabled people)
Disability Rights Movement
What are the CHALLENGES to adopting a person-centred approach?
- Resistance to change.
- Institutional history of public services.
- Institutes promoting a medical model of health.
- Lack of staff training.
- Communication barriers.
- Respecting choice when alternatives may promote better health or wellbeing.
- Focusing on deficits rather than capacities.
- Lack of clarity over roles and responsibilities.
Methods for OVERCOMING challenges.
- Values-based recruitment.
Staff training. - Regular review of support provided.
- Recognising when provision is not person centred and taking action to rectify this.
- Modelling behaviour.
What is values-based recruitment?
Hiring the right staff who share the values of a person-centred approach
How does staff training overcome challenges to adopting a person centred approach?
- Staff can be taught how to listen rather than tell.
- Staff can be trained to work as a team with the client at the heart of everything.
How does regularly reviewing support help overcome challenges to adopting a person centred approach?
- The service user is able to say if things are working and get things changed to suit them.
- Don’t have to just accept what the original solution was.
What is modelling behaviour?
- Showing good practice so other people can learn from you.
- Experienced and skilled staff showing others.
How does a professional build effective relationships?
- caring
- approachable
- reliable
- empathetic
- respectful
- supportive
