Chapter 1 Psychology in health and social care Key topics ll Relevance of studying psychology ll Schools of thought in psychology ll Psychology in practice: people and practice ll How to make effective use of this book ll Introducing the ‘psychosoap’ family Introduction Our purpose throughout this book is to offer ideas from psychology that can be applied to your work in health or social care. Our objectives are to enable you to: ll apply evidence-based
Premium Psychology
Unit Principles of diversity‚ equality and inclusion in adult social care settings Ci) Write a reflective account describing: * How your personal preferences‚ attitudes‚ heritage and beliefs might impact on working practice. * How to ensure that your own practice is inclusive and respects the beliefs‚ culture‚ values and preferences of individuals. I work in a residential home for Dementia for the elderly‚ some of the clients Dementia range from mild to severe. The clients are raised
Premium Meal Lunch Dinner
influence the culture at AMC‚ some more successful than others. For example‚ they tried to establish regular evidence-based management workshops‚ and they implemented and evidence-based quality improvement project to reduce patient falls on Richard’s unit. What more could they do to influence the culture? What could they do specifically to encourage upper management to adopt a more evidence-based mind set? As suggested by Jeffrey Pfeffer‚ professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business‚ Sally
Premium Evidence-based medicine Health care Avicenna
Unit 304 Outcome 1 Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice 1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role. Duty of care means supporting individuals and allowing them to be as independent as possible and to be safe. It is our responsibility a carer to makes sure that the correct support I given using the policies‚ procedures and agreed ways of working as a guideline. 1.2 Explain how duty of care contributes to the guarding or protection of individuals. In our job
Premium Complaint Tour de Georgia Pleading
Website Design Strategy P1 - Describe how three contrasting organisations use their websites for business purposes Website Description of core business Purpose Users of the site www.nhs.co.uk NHS Choices offers a wide range of resources that can support health and care professional in their work with patients and clients. It’s a business in the public sector which means it is owned by the government. It ensures that good healthcare is available to all‚ regardless of their financial status
Premium Male The Age Person
Justify the fundamental reasons that marketers should closely monitor the actions of rivals in order to proactively address developing issues‚ events‚ and circumstances. Provide one (1) example of such successful close monitoring to support your rationale. The healthcare sector is an area that experiences the most intense levels of competition and rivalry. Therefore‚ in order for companies to seize the opportunity in the marketplace they must serve specific target markets. These target markets
Premium Marketing Economics Management
1 Know how to recognise signs of abuse A Define the following types of abuse and identify the signs and/or symptoms associated with each type of abuse The Department of Health has defined abuse as “Abuse is a violation of an individual’s human and civil rights by any person or persons” (No Secrets 2000). There are many different types of abuse and individual cases of abuse usually involve a different combination of these different types. (i) Physical abuse Refers to hitting‚ slapping‚ scratching
Premium Abuse Child abuse Human rights
P6: Explain two examples of multi-disciplinary working in social care M3: asses how multi- disciplinary working together can improve the provision of social care I am going to talk about multi- disciplinary working what it means how they help service users by working together and also how it helps the overall services working with users. There are two case studies to help explain how professionals work together. What is multi- disciplinary working? Multi disciplinary working is when several professionals
Premium Social work Social change Sociology
Explain the role of effective communication and interpersonal interaction in a health and social care context. The role of effective communication is very important in a health and social care unit as‚ without it‚ it will be very hard to communicate with the clients. But also communication is the process of sharing information‚ thoughts and feelings between people through speaking‚ writing or body language. Effective communication extends the concept to require that transmitted content is received
Premium Nonverbal communication Communication Sign language
Safeguarding in Health and Social Care Under the Health and Social Care Act (2008)‚ abuse is defined as: “Single or repeated act or lack of appropriate action occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust which causes harm or distress including physical‚ emotional‚ verbal‚ financial‚ sexual‚ racial abuse‚ neglect and abuse through misapplication of drugs.” Abuse can happen to anyone‚ anywhere‚ at any time. However‚ it is so alarming that more and more elderly
Premium Nursing home Health care Abuse