Positive Risk Taking for Individuals with Disabilities
A Care Quality Guide for Health and Social Care Staff and Carers
Published on 14. August 2014
Book
Pamphlet
67 pages
978-1-910366-05-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Principles of Positive Risk Taking for Individuals with Disabilities care quality guides aims to help health and social care staff and carers refresh, develop or extend their learning in key areas of practice. Covering much of what is in LD 205 Principles of Positive Risk Taking for Individuals with Disabilities workbook, this convenient practice guides offers an engaging, value for money, simple and flexible way of self-learning about the key principals of positive risk taking for individuals with disabilities. The Principles of Positive Risk Taking for Individuals with Disabilities care quality guide also contains a certificate of achievement and is CPD accredited.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hove
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-910366-05-9 (9781910366059)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Peter Woodward is senior lecturer in learning disabilities at the University of Greenwich. He has worked extensively with people with learning disabilities in forensic, challenging behaviour and specialist mental health settings. He has a wide experience of delivering training and has taught at pre- and postgraduate level to qualified and unqualified support staff.
Content
This book is based on five learning outcomes of the QCF unit, each covered by a section in the guide. These are: The importance of risk taking in everyday life for individuals with disabilities; The importance of positive, person-centred risk assessment; Legislation and policies relevant to positive risk taking; How to support individuals with disabilities in decisions about risk taking; How to support individuals with disabilities to manage identified risks. It contains various thinking activities and key learning points so that staff can reflect on their learning.