Person-centered values provide a foundation on which we can base and build our practice. We need to understand what the values are, how we can promote them and why they are important. A value is simply what is important in the life of the person we are supporting. These are the person centered values; Individuality, rights, choices, privacy, independence, dignity, respect, partnership, equal opportunities. 1.2 person centered values are important with care plans as Care planning is all about improving the lives of those who receive care.
The purpose of person centred planning is to enable people to live the lives they want in their communities. People who have used person centred planning are finding that it can: • Helps people work out what they want in their lives and make them feel stronger and more confident. • Clarify what support people need to pursue aspirations. • Bring people together to support people in joint problem, solving and to energise and motivate people based upon, better understanding of and commitment to the person. • Help direct and shape the contributions made from service agencies, to ensure they are based upon what is important to a person from their perspective.
Receive feedback from others about our behaviour our skills our values the way we relate to others about our very identity. Feedback is central to the process of reflection. Constructive feedback = essential to improve and increase the effectiveness of the service. Helps social care worker to adhere in learning and developing new skills. How people can react on constructive feedback or criticism : React : • People may react defensively.
Factsheet - Person Centered Planning Summary • Person Centered Planning is a way of assisting people to work out what they want; the support they require and helping them get it. • Person Centered Planning has the person at the center, is carried out in alliance with friends and family and is focused on getting real lives for people. • Person Centered planning plays a particularly important role in delivering objectives in the “Valuing People Now” document. What is Person Centered Planning? Person Centered planning is a way of enabling people to think about what they want now and in the future.
Corey posits that the signs that individuals project through their behavior to society arises from the decisions that they have made in their lives. This basic assertion holds that people are responsible for the reality they create as well as the consequences their actions bring to light (Grant, n.d). According to Corey, individuals have an innate driving force that directs them towards attaining their individual needs. As human beings, we are always functioning to achieve something that will make us feel fulfilled in life. For instance, people seek to be loved to feel that they belong.
Discuss how reflection can develop professional practice through critically analysing two different models/theories of reflection in this module. The definition of reflection has been defined differently by various authors. Cottrell (2010) suggests that reflection is a type of thinking that is linked to gaining a better understanding of something and that it is also an important part of the learning experience and where we can make sense of the experience. This can be related to Boyd and Fales (1983) who suggest that reflection is a process which can be used to examine and explore an area of concern and which could potentially end in a changed perspective. These views can be compared to Boud et al.
Thinking about what happened is a part of being human however the difference between casual thinking and a reflective practice is that reflective practice takes a conscious effort to think about events/ behaviours and develop insight into them? Why is reflective Practice important? Through reflective Practice, developing a better insight and understanding of people you support and yourself will ultimately mean that you will provide a better service! How reflective practice contributes to improving the quality of service provisions. Using reflective Practice you will be able to contribute to your service provision by being able to reflect .process, evaluate and achieve progress through your better understanding of client group/user.
The Goal of Human Services The goal of human services is to build a community where all members may have the opportunity to meet their basic needs, economically, socially, and physically, for the improvement of quality of life. This community would be caring, nurturing and supporting individuals, and their families. This is accomplished by promoting an effective human services delivery system. An effective human services delivery system recognizes opportunities and creates strategies practical and preventive in their tactics to the needs of human services then and in the future. It will focus on the needs of the individuals who make up the community.
It is important to engage in the client’s world so they are able to express their feelings. This will then lead for exploration, to be able to accept previously denied aspects of self-involving checking with the client which should be natural and free flowing. Respecting the individuality for the client (Mearns and Thorne, 2007). Rogers considered empathy as a ''state of being'', however Truax and Carkhuff defined empathy as a communication skill. A number of difficulties arose within the concept of empathy.
The Counsellor places primary responsibility on the client who has the capacity for awareness and an ability to make decisions. BASIC PRINCIPLES Person-centred approach focuses on the client's responsibility and capacity to discover ways of living a more fulfilling life. It emphasises the subjective world of the client and their internal frame of reference. The Counsellors" function is to be imrmediatety present and available to the client's perception of self and the world and focus on the here and now experience. THERAPEUTIC GOALS Aim toward a client's greater degree of independence and integration.