Would you like a berry?
Your role is to help individuals to make informed choices.
This will be about the things that happen everyday and also in planning for their longer term future.
Each time you work with an individual you should be able to give them choices.
| An individual’s choices will be different depending on their abilities and the different types of tasks you undertake. |
| Good communication is essential so that you can give choices and individuals can make them. |
| It doesn’t matter what environment you support an individual in, there should always be plenty of opportunity to provide choices. |
This is an example of some of the every day choices that you can give individuals, depending on your job role.
You can support individuals to make choices by giving them encouragement and giving praise when they have made a choice.
You are aiming to give an individual the confidence to continue to make choices about other aspects of their lives.
Be careful not to sound patronising. This means to treat a person in a way that seems kind or helpful but the individual could think you appear superior. This is why getting to know the people you work with is important; so you can understand what is normal for them.
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Class Sessions
1- 1. Describe what is meant by privacy and dignity
2- 2. List situations where an individual’s privacy and dignity could be compromised
3- 3. Describe how to maintain privacy and dignity in the work setting
4- 4. Demonstrate that your actions maintain the privacy of the individual
5- 5. Demonstrate privacy and dignity is maintained
6- 6. Explain why it is important not to disclose anything about the individual unless appropriate
7- 7. Report any concerns you have about privacy and dignity to the relevant person
8- 8. Describe ways of helping individuals to make informed choices
9- 9. Explain how risk assessment processes can be used to support individuals to make decisions
10- 10. Explain why personal views must not influence an individual’s own choices or decisions
11- 11. Describe why you need to support an individual to challenge decisions
12- 12. Demonstrate how to support individuals to make informed choices
13- 13. Check risk assessment processes are used to support individuals to make their own decisions
14- 14. Reflect on how your own personal views could influence an individual’s choices
15- 15. Report any concerns you have about informed choices to the relevant person
16- 16. Describe the importance of how valuing people contributes to active participation
17- 17. Explain how to enable individuals to make informed choices about their lives
18- 18. List others ways you can support active participation
19- 19. Describe importance of enabling individuals to develop self-care and maintaining networks
20- 20. Demonstrate that you can support the active participation of individuals in their care
21- 21. Reflect on how your own personal views could restrict the individual’s ability to participate
22- 22. Report any concerns about active participation to the relevant person