This handbook will provide additional information on implementing person-centred active support. It can be used to support the multi-media training resource but it can also be read independently. Utilising examples, tools and experiences from a range of organisations and services, this book will provide the reader with additional information on a range of implementation issues. It will also provide examples and suggestions to help readers successfully support people to participate in meaningful activities and relationships.
Key themes will include:
- background and evidence of person-centred active support
- providers' experience of implementing person-centred active support
- developing person-centred approaches using person-centred active support
- actively supporting people with profound and multiple disabilities
- actively supporting people whose behaviour is challenging
- implementing person-centred active support in a range of services and situations
- organising person-centred active support
- the role of practice leadership
- practice leadership behaviour and skills
- quality management and evaluation
- lessons for the future
Continuous Professional Development
Professionals within the social care sector are required to undertake Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Those who use this resource will be able to gain CPD points.
Vital information for: front-line care staff, first-line managers, professionals, advisers, trainers and others working with staff to improve the support they provide to people with learning disabilities. |
Chapter 1 - Background and importance of person-centred active support
Chapter 2 - Providers' experiences of implementing person-centred active support
Chapter 3 - Essentials of person-centred active support
Chapter 4 - Increasing predictability
Chapter 5 - Increasing consistency
Chapter 6 - Promoting team work
Chapter 7 - What is practice leadership?
Chapter 8 - Skills and motivation
Chapter 9 - Modelling and coaching
Chapter 10 - Monitoring and reviewing
Chapter 11 - Linking person-centred active support
Chapter 12 - Person-centred active support and people with complex needs
Chapter 13 - Person-centred active support and positive behaviour support
Chapter 14 - Evaluation
Chapter 15 - Learning and lessons for the future
Bev Ashman
Bev Ashman is practice development co-ordinator for United Response, a national organisation providing a range of services for people with learning disabilities, mental health needs or physical disabilities in England and Wales. She has been working with people with learning disabilities in New Zealand and the UK for more than 25 years and her interests include practice, service development, service systems and challenging behaviour. Bev has been working to assist United Response implement and evaluate person-centred active support nationally since 1998.
John Ockenden
John Ockenden has worked with people with learning disabilities in a wide variety of roles and settings for 25 years. Since 2001, he has worked with United Response's practice development team advising support workers, managers and directors in the development of better practice and has a key role in the development of training materials and the practical application of person-centred active support, positive behaviour support, effective communication and person-centred approaches.
Julie Beadle-Brown
Julie Beadle-Brown has worked at the Tizard Centre, University of Kent, since 1995. Julie is senior lecturer in learning disabilities and primarily teaches on the postgraduate programmes in intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her research interests range from deinstitutionalisation and development of community-based services, service design and quality to personalisation, active support and quality of life to people with intellectual disabilities and children and adults with autism. She also spends a substantial amount of time working in services, training staff and evaluating service quality, with a particular focus on person-centred active support.
Jim Mansell
Jim Mansell is director of the Tizard Centre and professor of learning disability at the University of Kent, and an associated director of the NIHR School of Social Care Research. He is a fellow of the British Psychological Society and an Academician of the social sciences. He has been involved in the research and development of community-based learning disability services in England and Wales since 1970. He is a trustee of the charity United Response.