Understanding Specific Needs in Health and Social Care

Understanding Specific Needs
in Health and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Concepts of health, disability, illness and behaviour in relation to users of health and social
care services.................................................................................................................................1
1.2 How perceptions of specific needs have changed over time.................................................2
1.3 Impact of legislation, social policy, society and culture on the ways that services are made
available for specific needs..........................................................................................................2
2.1 Analyse the care needs of individuals with specific needs....................................................3
2.2 Explain current systems for supporting individuals with specific needs...............................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
2.3 Evaluate the services found...................................................................................................4
4.1 Explain different concepts of challenging behaviour............................................................5
4.2 Describe the potential impact of challenging behaviour on health and social care
organisations................................................................................................................................6
4.3 Analyse strategies for working with challenging behaviours associated with specific needs
.....................................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Explain the approaches and interventions available..............................................................8
3.2 Evaluate the effectiveness of intervention strategies.............................................................8
3.3 Discuss the potential impact of emerging developments......................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care needs are the basic necessity of human being. Theses services are
provided by professional or care workers. It is important to understand needs of individual so
that specific services can be provided to them (Murtagh and et.al., 2014). But in recent times,
there has been a lot of change in these services. it is due to change in needs of people. This report
will describe concept of health, illness, etc. and how people perception has changed over time in
health care. Also, it will show impact of legislation on services available. Moreover, current
systems are explained and its evaluation is done. In another section approaches and interventions
and its impact is discussed. At last concept of challenging behavior, its impact and strategies to
deal with it are described.
PART 1
1.1 Concepts of health, disability, illness and behaviour in relation to users of health and social
care services
In health and social care there are different types of services that are provided. Each
individual has specific needs that is required to be fulfilled. Care worker must understand each
concept and be clear in providing services (Rubin and Babbie, 2016). it will help in doing job
perfectly. Moreover, different concepts are explained below :-
Health – According to WHO health means mental and physical well being of an individual in
society. It reflects the good overall condition of a person. Also, a person that remains healthy in
absence of any disease can be considered as health.
Illness – it refers to the perception and emotion of an individual. Illness can vary from person as
it is based on personal experience. It shows behaviour of person related to his or her body. This
means that how symptoms are identified, care facilities are used, etc.
Disability – it can be defined as long term physical, mental, sensory, etc. impairments that
hinders person growth and health in comparison to others in society. It is stated by UN that a
disability is not health problem, but it shows difference in feature of body between society and
person. The social or environment barriers are interventions to remove disabilities.
Behaviour - it reflects how people response towards their health issues. A person may behave
differently towards different health problems. the behaviour can be either aggressive or patience.
Any change in behaviour impact on mental condition to a high level (Fine and Beck, 2015). It
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also gives an insight that how care services must be provided to improve behaviour and fulfil
needs.
1.2 How perceptions of specific needs have changed over time
In present times, values and beliefs of society as well as people are changing. This is due
to change in needs of people. also, there has been rise in standard of living because of fulfilment
of individual needs. It has enabled them to desire for more. similarly, in health and social care
there has been a significant change in specific need of people. in recent times, abuse and
harassment in society has increased. so, some people need are increased as they require more
care services. furthermore, it can be evaluated that if these changes are not recognised it can lead
to serious consequences on social development of people. alongside this, it can be stated that
basic human rights are not provided to people equally (WHO and World Health Organization,
2015). Besides this, it can be evaluated that sometimes people are not able to communicate
properly about their needs. It may be due to fear, anger, disability, etc.
It has been identified that communities are more focusing on fulfilling specific needs.
They are highly engaged with these people and protecting them from any harm. apart from it,
rise in crimes has forced society to identify specific need individual. They are more concerned in
delivering health care.
There are many other reasons due to which perception of people has changed. First is
change in social customs and trends. Here, each society is having their own needs. Thus, people
requirements are evolved. They are able to identify what is more important for healthy well
being. Another reason is philosophical change in thinking of people.
1.3 Impact of legislation, social policy, society and culture on the ways that services are made
available for specific needs
Health sector is regulated and controlled by government and society. It is because it
ensures that care is given as per needs (Carman and et.al., 2016). Also, it creates a healthy
environment within society. A society is said to be developed only when people are healthy and
fit.
Any change in above elements can have a negative or positive impact. Therefore, health
sector must be regulated and controlled. There is a great impact of legislation, society and culture
of health services.
Impact of legislation
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