Active harm vs passive harm in disablity
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