This resource provides a complete guide to practising, organising and implementing person-centred active support. It can be used by managers and trainers working with groups of staff, and by individual staff for their own continuing professional development.
Key features: Written by experts; tried and tested material; flexibility of use by groups and individuals; 31 illustrative video clips showing person-centred active support in practice.
About the resource: The pack contains a wealth of material for groups and individuals to learn about practising, managing and implementing person-centred active support. It can be used in different ways: as a training manual for in-house or external trainers to run courses within a service (the material provides content for one day’s training, which should be followed by hands-on training within the service); as a resource toolkit for services, managers and staff teams who want to improve the quality of their support to people with learning disabilities; and by individuals engaging in reflective practice and continuing professional development.
Contents include:
Module 1: Values into action
Module 2: Essentials of active support
Module 3: Organisation and improving practice
Module 4: Implementing active support
Module 5: Person-centred approaches
Module 6: The evidence base
This pack contains: A ringbound resource containing step-by-step guidance for the trainer and independent learner, photocopiable worksheets and slide masters, CD-rom containing 31 video clips.
Vital information for: Professionals, frontline staff, managers and trainers
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Introduction
- Background
- How the materials should be used
- Studying as an individual
- Guidance for trainers
- Timetabling training
- Links to the Learning Disability Awards Framework (LDAF) in England, Northern Ireland and Wales
- References
- About the authors
Module 1
- Text for Module 1: Values into action
1.1 Engagement in mearningful activities and relationships
1.2 Rationales for engagement in meaningful activities and relationships
1.3 Person-centred active support and person-centred planning
1.4 Excuses for doing nothing
- How to use module 1 if you are working as an individual
- How to use module 1 if you are a group leader/facilitator
- OHPs 1.1 to 1.14
- Worksheets 1.1 to 1.3
(video clips 1 to 3: on CD-Rom)
- About the video resources for Module 1
Module 2
- Text for Module 2: Essentials of active support
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Every moment has potential
2.3 Little and often
2.4 Graded assistance to ensure success
2.5 Maximising choice and control
- How to use module 2 if you are working as an individual
- How to use module 2 if you are a group leader/facilitator
- OHPs 2.1 to 2.7
- Worksheet 2.1
(video clips 4 to 31: on CD-Rom)
- About the video resources for Module 2
Module 3
- Text for Module 3: Organisation and improving practice
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Increasing predictability and consistency
3.3 Making the flow of activity seamless
3.4 Helping each other improve the quality of support
3.5 Look and see
3.6 Develop practice
3.7 Review
3.8 Hands-on training
- How to use module 3 if you are working as an individual
- How to use module 3 if you are a group leader/facilitator
- OHPs 3.1 to 3.13
- Worksheet 3.1 to 3.4
Module 4
- Text for Module 4: Implementing active support
4.1 The fundamental fact
4.2 Training skills
4.3 Building motivation
4.4 Implementing person-centred active support
4.5 Senior management issues
4.6 Preparation for person-centred active support
4.7 Sustaining person-centred active support
4.8 Action planning
- How to use module 4 if you are working as an individual
- How to use module 4 if you are a group leader/facilitator
- OHPs 4.1 to 4.10
- Worksheet 4.1 to 4.3
Module 5
- Text for Module 5: Person-centre approaches
5.1 Person-centred action and person-centred planning
5.2 Integrating person-centre approaches
- How to use module 5 if you are working as an individual
- How to use module 5 if you are a group leader/facilitator
Module 6
- Text for Module 6: The evidence base
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Engagement in poor-quality services
6.3 Implementation of active support
- How to use module 6 if you are working as an individual
- How to use module 6 if you are a group leader/facilitator
- OHPs 6.1 to 6.15
Jim Mansell
Jim Mansell is director of the Tizard Centre andprofessor of learning disability at the University of Kent, and anassociated director of the NIHR School of Social Care Research. He is afellow of the British Psychological Society and an Academician of thesocial sciences. He has been involved in the research and development ofcommunity-based learning disability services in England and Wales since1970. He is a trustee of the charity United Response.
Julie Beadle-Brown
Julie Beadle-Brown has worked at the TizardCentre, University of Kent, since 1995. Julie is senior lecturer inlearning disabilities and primarily teaches on the postgraduateprogrammes in intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her researchinterests range from deinstitutionalisation and development ofcommunity-based services, service design and quality to personalisation,active support and quality of life to people with intellectualdisabilities and children and adults with autism. She also spends asubstantial amount of time working in services, training staff andevaluating service quality, with a particular focus on person-centredactive support.
Bev Ashman
Bev Ashman is practice development co-ordinator for UnitedResponse, a national organisation providing a range of services forpeople with learning disabilities, mental health needs or physicaldisabilities in England and Wales. She has been working with people withlearning disabilities in New Zealand and the UK for more than 25 yearsand her interests include practice, service development, service systemsand challenging behaviour. Bev has been working to assist UnitedResponse implement and evaluate person-centred active support nationallysince 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.