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disability and emotions that I wish support workers knew.

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Disability and emotions and I see that this is going to be a challenging conversation that we need to have to be able to get to the bottom of things as the system as we know it has become to complicated with power going to the providers and not the clients commonly called the participants and this is a major issue that needs to be addressed due to the fact that many clients including myself have been emotionally harmed by rules and regulations that are put into place because of an incident that relates to something else and we see that this is a massive issue and we see that this ties into the systemic undertraining of support workers, we see that this can really harm some people due to the way that the rules aren’t really person-centered that they based around the medical model of disability and we see that this isn’t ok really and we see that people need to be aware of this as I have recently left a care organization due to, several factors.     Lack of consistent care team and a lac

When to breach privacy and how to do it safely for a client's safety

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Disclaimer – That these are my own lived experiences and understanding from the research that  I do around the NDIS and health-related topics please be aware that it is informational only and not to be used as a substitute for professional advice or working with a Planner, Disability Advocacy service or talking to your Medical and Allied Health team.    This is a real interesting topic,  and we see that it's one that we need to be aware of as their is very specific widow of  what is tolerated in breaching someone’s privacy so you need to know firstly How to do it?  Why you would need to do it and How to tell the client that you needed to tell someone that their privacy has been breached.    It is a very specific thing to do as every person has the right to privacy but direct support workers need to be very situationally aware and this is something that I found gets forgotten about is a client’s right to privacy.  However, there is sometimes when it's in the interest of th

What is person centered care in the context of disablity care.

  What is person-centred care in the disability approach?   So we need to start out by saying that there is several approaches to disability care and they have very different world views attached to them, the first one is the medical model of disability that says that we are broken and that we should be cured and that then we can contribute to the world. The second one is the social model of disability which says that it is the society that disables us and that we need to be aware of this and that by fixing some things in society the disability will have less impact and it also makes people aware that disability isn’t something to be feared it is just a way of being, and that disability impacts people in very different ways as well. So this is where the person-centered approach comes from and we see that this is an offshoot of the social model of disability and that this is where we see that it is fundamentally different in peoples view’s in that if the person has a care worker (