Approaches and Interventions for Supporting Individuals with Specific Needs

This document discusses the concept of health, disability, illness, and behavior in relation to specific needs. It explores the changing perception of specific needs and the impact of legislation, social policy, society, and culture. The document also analyzes the care needs of individuals with specific needs and the current system for supporting them. Additionally, it discusses the approaches and interventions available to support individuals and the effectiveness of these strategies. Overall, it provides valuable insights into the field of health and social care for individuals with specific needs.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Concept of health ,disability,and illness and behaviour...................................................3
1.2 Changing perception related to specific needs.................................................................4
1.3 Impact of legislation ,social policy ,society or culture.....................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Analyte the care needs of individual with specific needs.................................................5
2.2 Current system for supporting individual with specific needs........................................6
2.3 Services available for individual with specific needs.......................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Approaches and interventions available to support to individual....................................7
3.2 Effectiveness of intervention strategies for individuals...................................................8
3.3 Potential impact of emerging developments on support for individuals..........................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
4.1 Different concept of challenging behaviour...................................................................10
4.2 Potential impact of challenging behaviour on organisation...........................................11
4.3 Analysing strategies for working with challenging behaviours.....................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Currently ,health and social care sector is growing continuously so health profession
should be equipped according to the requirement of patient and people. If professional does it
then it will be able to increase the no. of customers and revenue. Today time people 's thinking is
changing and they are becoming more conscious about their health. For fulfilling this needs of
health , technology is very helpful so professional should adopt technology according to the
need because it is a key driver in modern care (World Health Organization, 2012). This project is
based on health and social care sector that are growing continuously and very popular because
today's time people 'thinking is changing and want to remain fit and healthy. This project
explains the concept of illness ,disability and behaviour and focus on the social or culture need of
service user. It gives insight about the impact of legislation or social policies or culture on
service user.
TASK 1
1.1 Concept of health ,disability,and illness and behaviour
Every person should be healthy and fit for living the normal life or work life. If person is
not fit then he can not do work in efficient and effective manner so health is very important.
Health means that when a person has no diseases and is happy socially ,mentally and physically
then it is assume that he is a healthy person.
Disabilities- In this, individual can't live his or her normal life. It can be of two types-
one is permanent disabilities and second is temporary disabilities. In permanent disabilities
individual can not live his normal life in his whole life while in temporary disabilities ,person
can not live his normal life for a some time period. In this individual has some physical
impairment that 's why he can not live his normal life.
Illness – If anyone has illness then they become more dependent on others. Illness occurs
only for some time of period in which people can not work properly and feels weakness. In other
terms it can be say that it is the temporary defect or condition in which individual does not happy
mentally ,physically or socially (Mattocks and et.al., 2014).
Behaviours – Every person have different different behaviour. This indicates the
changing behaviour of the people which lead to physically or mentally sickness or depression.

A professional of health care should have knowledge about all these problems so that he
can deal with these problems. Mr. Peter who have mental illness that will be included in the
illness because it is a temporary defect or condition of him and cerebral palsy will be included
temporary disabilities.
1.2 Changing perception related to specific needs
It is correct that today everyone 's perception is changing because now everyone want to
remain fit and healthy. For getting this they are going to health profession (Falk, 2016) . In
ancient time,no one have knowledge that how to remain fit and healthy and also no conscious
about their health but now a days everyone is conscious about their health because today time
everyone have m,ore work load or pressure so they want to take rest.
Disable people thinks that because of the society environment ,they are facing problems.
In earliest time ,there are hospitals who take care of the patient related to health but in this
hospital there are increasing no. of patient so doctors were no able to provide the best services or
not satisfying the customers. Then for removing this deficiency ,currently there are professional
who shifted towards the specialist communities who are providing the best quality services to
the patient according to their requirements or prevailing conditions. They are working with the
people with specific needs due to learning disabilities. They provides the suggestion or guidance
to the people so that they can improve their condition and will become healthy and fit (Holland-
Bartels, and Pierce, 2011). There is given a maslow hierarchy that are very helpful in identifying
the needs and wants of the patient-

With the help of this hierarchy ,A professional can easily know what actual patient wants
from him.
1.3 Impact of legislation ,social policy ,society or culture
Government makes many rules and regulation for protecting the rights of patient and for
providing the best services at reasonable cost to the patient. These legislation or rules have to
follow by every health professional or organisation which deals in health and social care sector
(Costley, 2013). If company follows these legislation then it helps in increasing the brand value
of the clinic as well as increase goodwill of the professional. There are many legislation that
professional have to follow which are as follows -
 Disability Discrimination Act – This legislation prevents the discrimination on the basis
of disability that is done by any professional. If any professional is doing discrimination
on the basis of it then it will be illegal.
 Equity Act 2006 – According to this act ,all patient should receive equal rights as other
patient are receiving.
 Special educational needs and disabilities act 2001 – According to this act , all
children should gain equal knowledge. There should be no discrimination on the basis of
disability in the school or colleges (Bernhaupt and et.al., 2012).

Culture also effects the services that are providing to the person with specific needs
because according to the culture,person demands the services. Every culture has one form of
health beliefs.
Society also impact the person because it motivates or demotivate the show of equal
respect and value for people with specific needs.
These rules and regulation are made for the development of health and social care sectors
and in UK there are made a community that take care of disabled person (Wilcox and et.al.,
2012).
TASK 2
2.1 Analyte the care needs of individual with specific needs
Individual with specific needs requires the care needs according to their problems or
situation. If they have serious problems then they require high level of care need and vice versa.
Mr. Anis who has brain Haemorrhage and paralysed from right side of his body ,requires high
level of take care that are by his wife. This patient requires some specific treatment from that
professional who has good knowledge and skills and have some experience in dealing this
situation . The current situation of Mr. Anis can be handled by doing the medical
treatment ,health and social intervention or other specific programmes or events that will help in
providing the services. His wife have also have depression by playing the role of wife as well as
mother continuously. She requires some medical and emotional care so that she can feel happy
and can remove the depression from her body.
People who have learning disability requires less health care needs because they can not
understand about their sickness or can't express about their problems. In this Mr. Anis is
paralysed that means he have disability then in this situation medical treatment should be
provided to him as well as can use charts or pictures for better communication. When patient 's
family members have knowledge about their comforts and discomforts then they can easily treat
with them and they will deal with them according to their moods (Haynes and Linden, 2012).
2.2 Current system for supporting individual with specific needs
There are many systems which supports the individual with specific needs like
government ,semi -government ,voluntary organisation ,societies and so on. These all bodies

helps and support the individual with specific needs. They supports the individual with specific
needs which are as follows -
 Government – Government plays an important role in supporting the individual. It
makes the legislation ,rules and regulation that every health professional have to follow
it. These rules protects the rights of patient and and prevents the discrimination in the
clinic or school. For example – Disability Discrimination Act ,Equity Act etc. This rules
develops the health and social care sectors (Polat, Adiguzel and Akgun, 2012).
 Voluntary organisation – These organisation take care of individual with specific needs
like Mr .Anis ,his wife and daughter. They all requires take care. So in this case these
organisation take care of and evaluates that they are receiving the proper take care or not
from the professional. Basically these organisation is a non -profit organisation that only
want to serve the society. For example -Disability Alliance is a registered organisation
that has aim to improve the living of standards of disabled people .
 Community – In this there are many high level authority and people that have aim to
improve the health status of every one who are living in the society and evaluates that
there is no discrimination on the basis of disability.
2.3 Services available for individual with specific needs
There are many services that are available to individual with specific needs that they can
enjoy. Mr. Anis and his wife is the individual with specific needs requires some specific services
that will help in improving the condition. There are some local medical centres which is
designated to provide the services to the individual with specific need. A health professional can
provide the following services to them that will help in improving their conditions . These
services are divided into 3 parts which are as follows -
 Safeguarding – A health professional has the responsibilities to provide the safeguarding
to the Mr. Anis and his wife and daughter. They should be properly guided and advised
by the health professional. They provides the guidance and suggestion after seeing the
prevailing problems of the patient (Prince and Hadwin, 2013).
 Health – Health professional provides various information to the individual with specific
needs that will help the people in maintaining their health. This is done by the
professional when matters comes to the health.

 Adult services – A health professional also provides the services to the adult when they
have some disability or have some problems with themselves or with their families.
 Blue badges – A health professional also provides this services in which disable person
gets concession in free parking. It is provided to the patient so that they can move or
access the certain building easily and without paying extra charges (Harding and et.al.,
2012).
TASK 3
3.1 Approaches and interventions available to support to individual
There are many approaches or intervention that supports the individual with specific
needs and it improves the practises of health and social care sectors. Approaches are as follows -
 Advocacy – This approach is used in legal cases. In this ,service provider helps and
support the individual in any police case that are occurred at the time practise . It includes
the act of leading ,supporting and recommending the individual and also includes various
methods that helps in improving the human behaviour ,norms etc. It has objective to
provide the justice to the victims against any abusive case.
 Self -help – It is a self improvement approach in which individual helps himself. This can
be done on the basis of intellectual ,emotional, economic and mostly on psychological
basis. There are many programme that helps in self improvement and have own
procedure or benefit. This approach is helpful in improving the health care of the person.
 Evidence based approach – This approach is very popular at national and international
level that is taken is health and social care sector. This approach includes three level that
is intersectional level ,national policies and evidence based medicine. It also includes the
process that demonstrate the efficiency of the people.
There are many interventions which are as follows -
 Vocational intervention- In this it gives the vocational training to the individual so that
they can earn money and become more efficient and dependent person in his own life
(Benton and Johnson, 2014).
 Educational intervention – In this all important information are provided to the person
that are helpful in the healthcare issues. This information should be provided to every

member of the organisation like care workers, patient so that they can take corrective
action that will help in the improvement of health care issues.
 Psychological intervention- Human behaviour is very challenging so in this situation
this intervention plays an important role. It helps in raising the morale of the life and
spread positive thinking of the life and also helps in reducing the depression ,mental
sickness ,anxiety and attempt to suicide (Warren and et.al., 2014).
3.2 Effectiveness of intervention strategies for individuals
The intervention strategies is very important for every people whether he is care
workers ,patients and so on. It is helpful in improving the situation or current condition of
patients. If any individual is adopting this intervention then it will improve their conditions.
There are many intervention that are helpful in improving the condition of the patient. Some
interventions are as follows which are very effective -
 Physical intervention – This intervention helps the individual in increasing the physical
strengths which can be done by therapies ,exercise etc. Exercise improves the joint
treatment of the people. It is needed for satisfying the external needs and restrains the
functions which are lost and also helps in living the normal life.
 Educational intervention – It also plays an important role in health and social care
sectors because it provides the information or ideas how to deal with any health issues so
that it can improve the efficiency of the person. Every professional should have the
knowledge how to deal with the problems of patients.
 Vocational intervention – It is helpful in increasing the self sufficiency so that they can
become dependent person and can live their own life in their own motion or can improve
it's daily life. It also helps the people to acquire the adequate knowledge about the
prevailing condition or situation so that they can know how to improve his own life and
can live better life (Kuo, Frick and Minkovitz, 2011).
 Psychological intervention – It is helpful in increasing the morale of people and builds
the positive aspect that will help in getting the better life. It helps in reducing
depression ,anxiety ,tendency to suicide and change the personalty of the people.
 Communication intervention – It is also very important aspect because with out it ,care
workers can not know about the actual problems of the patient and then can not be able to
remove the issues.

3.3 Potential impact of emerging developments on support for individuals
In health and social industry ,there are many up gradation and developments that helps in
the improvements of health issues. In this sectors ,development includes medical
development ,technology development ,legislation and regulation development and so on. These
development may have a positive impact as well as negative impact (Macalister, 2012). Impact
of emerging development to the service provider is as follows -
 It increases the no. of customers because it is using the modern technology that will
attract the customers.
 It will increase the goodwill or brand name of the company.
 It will denote all preferences and requirements of individual with specific need.
 It can provide the best quality of services to the individual with specific needs.
Impact of emerging development to the individual with specific needs -
 Individual can take best services from the service provider with out any discrimination
and will get equal rights.
 It will help in getting the best services at reasonable cost because of development of
legislation.
 Development of legislation ,individual can get justice against the abusive case.
 It protects the discrimination on the basis of disabilities and provides equal rights to to
them that are available to the normal person.
There are other impacts which are as follows -
 It prevents the bad practice that is done by service provider and protects the patient from
this situation.
 There are also some legal cases like rape ,bribes that are taken by service provider etc.
The development of legislation reduces these cases.
 With the development of medical ,service provider can easily know about the actual
problems and can know how to deal with and what customers are expecting from them
(Kasparian, 2013).
These development that is made by the government ,community or other organisation are
appreciated by the individual with specific needs because these all development is helpful in
providing the best services to them and without any discrimination on the basis of disabilities.

TASK 4
4.1 Different concept of challenging behaviour
Challenging behaviour means that behaviour that creates the challenges in front of others
who are around to him. This behaviour interferes the learning process ,development and growth
of the person (Crawford and Salaman, 2012). It is very harmful situation for that people who are
living and in touch with that person who have challenging behaviour. In this person feels angry
and don't behave good with the other person and uncooperative with other person etc. This types
of problems can be occurred because of the following reasons -
 Mental illness or physical imbalance.
 Sexual or learning problems.
 More consumption of drugs or alcohol.
 Perception problems.
 Social problems like -relationship problems etc.
 Change in environment.
 Loneliness etc.
Mr. JC who have also challenging behaviour because he have some mental illness that
result he was behaving aggressively and giving abuse to the care workers.
These behaviour may consider the following things which is given below -
 These person can assault to anyone means he is very harmful for everyone.
 He can do anything whether it is legal or illegal things. He does not think before doing
anything.
 He behaves that can harmful for others as well as for himself.
 He can do that things that is harmful to the property etc.
4.2 Potential impact of challenging behaviour on organisation
Challenging behaviour is not good for anyone. It always have the negative impacts on
himself as well as on others (Nguyen, 2012). The potential impacts of challenging behaviour are
as follows which is given below-
 That person is kept with their relative ,family and friends.
 They are needed more financially or emotionally support.
 They can not communicate properly to anyone.

 They may have memory loss or much habitual of alcohol and drugs.
There are many risk factors that can arise because of challenging behaviour which are as follows
-
 It may arise the depression to the career (Understanding Special Needs In Health And
Social Care . 2017).
 In this person are unable to cope up with the new changes and can not do adjustment.
 In this person feels alone that result may be that it can isolated that person from the social
culture.
 It can feel more aggression that may result is that he can harm to him or any other person.
 He can become patients of domestic violence.
 From this behaviour ,he or care workers may become frustrated about their job and will
not work properly and will not provide good quality of work to any one.
4.3 Analysing strategies for working with challenging behaviours
Health and social care workers have many strategies for dealing with that person who
have challenging behaviour. Care workers should ensure the family members of that person who
is having the challenging behaviour that care workers have knowledge that how can deal with
this problems and have experience of dealing with this situation.
Care workers have to work with more responsibility or more care in this situation because
in this situation person is more aggressive and frustrated, they can harm to any one. So in this
situation , care workers have to take more care of these patients. So care workers should have
more knowledge about it that how to deal with this situation (Bernhaupt and et.al., 2012).
In this situation ,care workers should deal this situation with existing strategy because
about this strategy ,they have knowledge and can work more efficiently and effectively.
There are some social council that helps in dealing this situation. For dealing this
situation , care worker should do partnership alliances or legislation that gives the best result in
taking care of that person. It provides extra take care of these person who is having challenging
behaviour or some specific needs. This legislation help in the following way -
 Provides and builds new principles or regulations.
 It ensures the leadership effectiveness and efficiency.
 It gives the extra attention to these people.
 It provides the capacity to the care workers for sufficient development (Costley, 2013).

CONCLUSION
Now a days ,health and social care sectors is very vital for everyone because it helps in
remaining fit and healthy. In this sectors ,care workers gives the proper guidance or suggestion
to the patient or people that will help in remaining fit. From this project it is concluded that
today time ,perception of people related to the health ,illness etc. is changing regularly and
government takes new steps and efforts for the development of this sectors that are appreciable
by the individual with specific need. In the society there are many cultures that impacts the
services that are available for the individual with specific needs and there are many approaches
like advocacy ,self help approach etc. and many intervention like vocational ,communication etc.
are here to support the individual with specific needs.
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