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    CT307 Understand Person-Centred Approaches in Adult Social Care Settings Person centred planning is crucial to providing quality care and support. It helps support workers find out what is important to the person they support and enables services/support plans to be built around what matters most to that individual. Person-Centred values • Treating people as individuals • Supporting people to access their rights • Supporting people to exercise choice • Making sure people have privacy

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    In philosophy‚ egoism is the theory that one’s self is‚ or should be‚ the motivation and the goal of one’s own action. Egoism has two variants‚ descriptive or normative. The descriptive (or positive) variant conceives egoism as a factual description of human affairs. That is‚ people are motivated by their own interests and desires‚ and they cannot be described otherwise. The normative variant proposes that people should be so motivated‚ regardless of what presently motivates their behavior. Altruism

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    “Honour bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership”-James cash Penney. Individuals are strongly affected by their honor whether it be in their accomplishments or their status it provides them a sense of certainty when they make a decision for themselves‚ most individuals lack such strong honor because of their mindset often forces them to believe that they are inadequate. In the short story “The Spaces Between Stars” the author

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    Living in a collective society where you can’t express yourself or be independent is hard to imagine. In Anthem‚ the collective society they live in forbids individuality like thoughts‚ feelings‚ words‚ and actions. It says “We must strive to be like all our brother men‚ for all men must be alike.(17)” In Anthem‚ when Equality stumbles upon a chance to detach himself from the collective society‚ he makes the most of it. I think Equality’s primary motivation was to make something for himself and

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    Communication in Individualistic and Collective Societies CO 2520 Analysis 4.1 Shawn Fye-Potter Mr. Fey 8/5/2015 1. How do people in “individualist” cultures behave differently to people in “collectivist” cultures? People from individualist cultures tend to more independent and self-centered. The focuses on their cultural values tend to be related to their lives and what makes them happy as an individual. Collectivist cultures tend to revolve more around the family or community. Decisions

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    Dr. Copland - 1st Test blue book chapters 1 and 2 4 Core Concepts: Autonomy - at the core of existence we are separate‚ unique alone. Responsible for our own life choices Interdependence - We are all connected. Interdependence is the basis for Mutual Aide. Mutual Aide - Enabling the use of peoples inherent strengths to seek community: To care about others as well as ones self. To give as well as receive power‚ resources‚ and help. Responsibility - In a Group Practice considers

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    If you could have access to anything that you want whenever you want would you? I believe that a vast majority of people would answer this with a yes. That is because everyone is at some level worried about themselves usually more than others. The philosophy behind this idea is called ethical egoism or the idea of putting one’s self before others. John Gardner’s Grendel hones in on this philosophy in chapter six. Gardner focuses on how Grendel only really cares for himself. He doesn’t care for his

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    Autonomy is the concept that an individual has the right to be his or her own person in the sense that all actions or decisions that are self-regarding are made solely by that person—based on his or her ideas and values. Under autonomy‚ not only does a person have the right to make his or her own decisions that reflect how they choose to live their life‚ but they also have the right to choose how they want to attain them. The idea of autonomy assumes that all individuals have the rational capacity

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    Running head: Case Assignment #1 “The Lottery Ticket” Case Assignment #1 “The Lottery Ticket” Amanda Melvin Case Study #1 “The Lottery Ticket” A person representing ethical egoism would advise me to do whatever I feel is necessary for my own good. An ethical egoist would say that people should do whatever they believe or think is in their own self-interest. If you feel it would benefit you to use the wining lottery ticket as your own then go for it. If you feel that $1.8 million will

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    Objectivism Standard Ethical Egoism holds that the individual must act to benefit him or herself the most. On the surface this theory seems plausible‚ but several problems occur. Chief among these is a conflict between competing obligations. If two decisions can give an individual the same amount of profit‚ there is nothing else to factor in to make a correct decision. Objectivism‚ developed by Ayn Rand‚ gives a more sophisticated approach to Ethical Egoism. The adoption of this ethical theory

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