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  What is passive support and how does it create risks in the NDIS, so passive support is as complex as active support but it is more of a hands-off approach so it is person-centered in a way that there is a minimum direction in what people are being given when they are paying for the support it often happens in people who are higher functioning and are capable of making their own decisions but need support in a practical sense.   So this is practical support, in activities of daily living and we see that if a support worker makes assumptions, we see that this is where the risk of passive support comes in and there are times when it is very appropriate in a person with a disability. However, when a support worker is too hands-off we can see it leading to situations if the support worker isn’t fully aware of their client's disabilities it can lead to situations that can lead to the potential for harm so this is where it needs to be balanced with support and this is a very hard b

  What is Active support and how does it help people with a disability,   so active support is where the person's abilities are at the core of the support so it’s a level of support where the person with a disability and not their care team is involved in their support and make the major decisions around what they do day to day.  We see that this is the flip side to something that I talked about called Passive support that can cause harm in a person with a disability and we see that harm in support is a topic that isn’t often talked about and often people with a disability are gaslighted into believing that what the provider is giving them is what they wanted. It might be what they need but given the nature of support work a support worker needs to know the person well to provide good support and when it’s app apart to provider active support vs passive support as both are needed but passive support carries the risk of deskilling a person leading to maladaptive coping behaviors t

Why passive support leads to harm in disability support. So this is going to be a really hard topic to address but it needs addressing and this is because a lot of service providers don’t really understand the potential for harm in having passive support, so there are generally two forms of support one being passive support and the other being active and passive support is when a support worker does things for the client and this leads them to have fewer skills, this can be due to several things and this is quite interesting because one major one is a lack of training of the support worker and a lack of ongoing professional development training and we see that this can be a massive issue because there is no set requirement for a direct support worker to have and this, as I have stated in other formats, can be both a good and a bad thing because people need to be flexible in how they receive care.   In some cases where a person has very complex needs the support worker would be doin

This post and the video are going to generate some heat but it’s something that needs to be talked about we see that this is something that not a lot of people get as well that there is a major able-bodied disability but I am talking when it is obvious to the person that they are capable of doing things for themselves but don’t have the motivation to do it for themselves or they want to do it but they get angry when people suggest that they could do it for themselves.  Or they get angry when people call them out on it and this is where we need to define what is the difference between a disability and an excuse and what can we do about it as a disability is something where people do need help and they can be helped and accept that help but when they aren’t able to accept that help or see that they can do it for themselves we see that people are aware of it and don’t often want to be able to be helped or they get angry because they are used to being excused. After all, they have a disabi