It is my duty to take care of vulnerable adults and to ensure that their needs and well-being are looked after. I exercise reasonable care with respect to individuals’ best interests, this includes protecting service users from any harm or abuse that may occur and avoiding any acts that could result in injury but it also means respecting service users and giving them choices. I am proficient enough to ensure that every service user is taken care of in a reasonable, responsible and respectful manner. It is my role to ensure that my duty is carried out safely and effectively working alongside my organisation’s policies and procedures. Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice Know how to address dilemmas that may arise between an individuals rights and the duty of care Know how to recognise and handle comments and complaints Know how to recognise and handle incidents errors and Duty of Care is defined simply as a legal obligation to Always act in the best interest of individuals and others Not act or fail to act in a way that results in harm Act within your competence and not take on anything you do not believe you can safely do.
If the person centered value are all being followed correctly then the clients should feel happy and content. Aiii) Consent means asking someone for there permission to do something e.g. would you like help with personal care. We need to be careful because the client might lack capacity in some areas, but not in others this is known as implied consent. You MUST always gain consent.
As a human service professional, you would have to in the case of Cynthia encouraging the unique value and also characteristics of human services. You would have to uphold the integrity and also ethics in order to promote the clients greater well-being and also enhance your own personal growth in the process. I would in this case as a professional refer the family to do family counseling in order to work through their problems. I would first as a professional respect their right to confidentiality but inform the client of the limit to confidentiality before the relationship is
This could reassure them that nothing is being hidden from them. | The Right To Dignity | Dignity is an important aspect of being a care provider because you should help the service user maintain their dignity and self-respect. | Being Able To Communicate Using Preferred Method | Every individual has the right to communicate in the way they prefer whether verbally, sign language, written etc. The care provider should always know other ways of communication than verbal. | Protection From Harm Or Danger | Both the service user and the service provider have the right to be in a safe environment.
This is the ability to be you without pretence or façade. This is also called genuineness; it is the most important attribute in counselling according to Rogers, in this the counsellor is keen to allow the client to experience them as they really are, the therapist being authentic. Unconditional Positive Regard: (UPR) this is a non-judgemental, Respecting and accepting the other person as they are, Rogers believed that for people to grow and fulfil their potential it is important that they are valued as themselves. The counsellor has a genuine regard for the client, they may not approve of some of the client’s actions, but the therapist does approve of the client. The therapist needs an attitude of “I’ll accept you as you are.” The therapist must always maintain a positive attitude to the client at all times.
It is especially important for the social worker to establish and maintain the trust and confidence of service users. By doing this the service user is made to feel comfortable in an unfamiliar surroundings. Also, that everything runs nicely and smoothly it is good to keep a formal and at times informal relationship with the service user. Also building trust is important as the service user needs to feel that they can rely on you as the social worker. Upholding public trust and confidence in social care service is especially important as you as the social worker need show and make a standard to allow the public to understand that the social care services are very trust worthy and there should be no worry when using them.
Duty of care is central to all that you do at work, it is not something extra. 1.2 - Duty of care contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals by keeping individuals safe whether it is illness, abuse, harm or injury. We can do this by involving families, health care professionals and other external agencies into the individuals care plan. Duty of care is a legal requirement and there are policies, procedures, code of conduct and legislation around safeguarding and protecting your service users. Following these guidelines is showing that we are providing the best care possible.
Both the AACC and ACA code of ethics give specific limitations based on ethical dilemmas and differing legalities. There is also special attention given to the counselor’s responsibility to protect counselees from undo harm. Appropriate disclosure may be the best option-- and even necessary in certain cases in order to protect another party. “Rapidly expanding and interlocking electronic information networks are increasingly threatening client privacy rights” (AACC, p. 13, Section 1-470).This is to ensure that the client feels he/she is able to put forth the highest level of trust towards the counselor. The counselee feels that he/she is able to be open and honest because confidentiality is
By thinking about the duty of care that we owe patients when panning our work, we can consider what we are doing is in the best interest of the patient. This also includes not only physical risks to the patient but protecting their dignity and respect. 1.2 Explain how duty of care contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals. By knowing that duty of care must be exercised towards every patient worked with provides a clear guide as to how we should behave and how we must consider those we work with. By following a code of practise and thinking about duty of care means that our practice will be safer as we are stopping to think about what to do in the best interest of the patient.
What role does mediation have in counselling? People seek help from counselling and mediation for similar reasons and defining the difference between them both is important for the sessions to move as smoothly as possible and gives a clear understanding to the clients or parties involved. In counselling the focus is generally on change at an emotional and behavioral level, whereas mediation is not generally entered into to change something about themselves or their relationship but to resolve a dispute and reach a settlement (Lidchi, 2003). This essay will look at what role mediation may have in counselling, what skills may overlap and how mediation and counselling differ. Mediation is based more on gathering information to find the parties common interests, to negotiate the needs and then come to a mutual agreement, whereas counselling looks at the person, their perceptions and feelings to bring about self-exploration and change.