Person-Centered Practices In Human Services Case Study

Person centred values are treating people as individuals, supporting their choices, treating them with dignity and respect, working in partnership with people rather than trying to control them.

The main principles of person centred model are the core conditions of empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard. They are vital for building a safe therapeutic relationship, in which the client can explore fully.

Person centred thinking is a set of values, skills and tools by the individuals in the personalisation of services who need support or health care. Person Centred Planning is for the Individuals with learning disabilities, Person Centred Planning also means that the person is at the centre, family and friends are full partners, Person Centred Planning concentrates on what is important now and in their future and specifies the support they require to live there life in the way they wish. The Person Centred Approach is there to help the individuals live as independently as possible to have the right to choose to control the services that they need and to have access to both wider public, community services and employment and education. They are all there to help

Other approaches to person centred practice are more direct in planning action in order to

1.1 Identify the beliefs and values on which person-centred thinking and planning is based Person-centred thinking is taking or considering the individual as being at the centre of the whole process. The Service User (SU) is involved in the whole process from start to finish. He/she will be asked which people are important to them and family and friends will form a circle of support for them, this will help to enable that SU to feel that he/she is part of the process. Part of the process will be to have regular reviews and again, the SU will be part

1 Explain what person-centred thinking is, and how it relates to person-centred reviews and person-centred planning - This is when you as a carer must find a balance between what is important from and for the person. Person-centred planning is when you have to reflect on their capabilities and what support they may require now and in the future so that they can play an active part in their community. So services should be delivered in a way the person chooses not them being slotted into gaps to suit others.

Person-centred is about providing care and support that is centred or focused on the individual and their needs. We are all individuals and just because two people might have the same medical condition, for example, dementia, it doesn’t mean that they require the same care or support because they are two different people which means their needs will be different. You need to develop a clear understanding about the individuals that you are working with and their needs, culture, means of communication, likes and dislikes, family and other professional’s

Person-centred planning is used to support an individual based on their needs placing that individuals at the centre of a service/s. This is done to ensure that any individual using a service is always fully involved in decisions that may affect any or all aspects of their lives.

Instead offering people a choice of what is currently available and finding what best fits their needs, person-centred working looks at someone’s needs and built the support package around them. One of the important aspects of person-centred planning is to look at what people are able to do for themselves and to ensure that services are not taking over aspects of a person’s life that they could perfectly well manage without support.

People with learning disabilities say that they want to live an ordinary life in their communities. Person centred planning can help Partnership Boards make this happen.

Person-centred care has its focus on the person with an illness and not on the disease in the person. To

• Explain how the beliefs and values on which person-centred thinking is based differs from assessment and other approaches to planning? Person centred thinking is about the individuals choices. What they would like to acheive in life, how they like their routines etc. Assesments are usually carried out by proffesionals such as social workers, physiotherapy and speach and language therapists. These proffessionals make the decisions for the individuals i.e speech and language therapy make the desicion if the individual needs to be on a soft diet.

The overall view seems to be that personcentredness can be achieved by taking account of what is important to a person from their own perspective, giving an individual the opportunity to make informed choices. Taking a

One of the policies within the housing facility states that if X is having any visitors over she has to give the staff members notice. If she has a child staying over they are protected under the Area Child Protection Committee and Regional Child Protection Policies 2005. The child protection policy states there are procedures when directly working with children this may be adults, supervisors, or care workers who come into contact with the service user. If a staff member is in contact with a child within the facility and they are concerned about their wellbeing they can contact social services, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSCPP), or the police. If a staff member does report their concern about the child they have responsibilities to uphold they may be asked to provided information about the child or family, or to attend meetings, assessments or attend child protection case conference.

Person-centered theory is founded on the following assumptions; it is founded on the notion that every individual has the capability for self-actualization. That is; the influential tendency where every matter, whether organic or inorganic, advances from simpler nature to more comprehensive forms and actualizing tendency where the predisposition within every humans (both animals and plants) to incline toward full completion and or fulfillment of their potentials; wholeness. Some of these predispositions exist to offer maintenance whereas others are meant for enhancement. Occasionally, human