Contribute to Skill Development and Maintenance

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CHCDIS323A - Contribute to skill development and maintenance - LA012870 Assignment 1 Task 1 • Social Role Valorization Definition: Social role valorization (SRV) is a set of approaches created to make people aware of the attitudes, beliefs and their impact on people in the community who are not valued, people who don’t ‘fit in’, people who don’t look, act or speak like us, older people, people from other countries/cultures and people with disabilities. The main goal of SRV is to create or support socially valued roles in their society. Example: Mary has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair; she is learning to make lunch for some other clients with a support worker. A casual support worker see’s Mary helping in the kitchen and tells the other worker, “Mary can’t do that, she’s in a wheelchair.” The support worker assisting Mary say’s “Mary is very capable of making lunch and she wishes to learn more in the kitchen.” This is an example of social role valorization, because of Mary’s disability the casual support worker believes Mary is incapable of assisting with cooking meals in the kitchen. Mary does not have an intellectual disability and therefore is very capable of learning new skills, which will enable her to be more independent and have greater self worth in regards to her personal life and among the community. The casual worker is devaluing Mary’s role in society. • Independence Definition: Independence is being able to act, think or express under ones own judgment and not under the guidance or control of another. Being able to make decisions in relation to themselves, having choices and being able to make a decision between choices is seen as being independent. Example: Stan has an intellectual disability and cerebral palsy; he is 39 and has issues with making decisions about his own life. He get’s frustrated and
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