UNIT 6: LO2 PERSON CENTRED APPROACH 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 they 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 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 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
