Person Centre Planning

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PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE In this assignment, I will be writing about person centre planning, the definition of PCP and whether it be implemented in my workplace. Firstly, Person centred planning can be defined as a way of assisting people to work out what they want, the support they require and helping them get it. Person Centered Planning (PCP) is a process designed to assist someone to make plans for their future. It is used most often as a life planning model to enable individuals with disabilities to increase their personal self-determination and improve their own independence.www.wikipedia.org PCP is adopted by national disability authority (NDA) in June 2005 to help the government to deliver on its commitment to provide quality services for people with disabilities. Person-centred planning is ways of helping people with disability (or the families of very young people or people who need a lot of support think about): • What is important to them? • How they want to live? • What support they want? www.nda.ie PCP is a long term approach, for that reason there should be a plan and there so many question to be ask before the in planning an PCP, these questions are : • What is the need of the person? • What is most important to the person? • How does person want to live his life? • What are the things that upset the person you are planning for? • What is good about the person’s life? • What the person you are planning for is capable of doing well? • What are the hopes and dreams of the person? • What are the choices of the person presently? • And lastly, what support and help the person will need? The answers to these questions will give the plan a structure. This question is very important because it creates the beginning, the middle and the end of the plan. The key features of person centred planning are: • PCP is established the principles of

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