Understanding Specific Needs in Health &Social Care

Understanding Specific Needs in
Health and Social Care

Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Q1 Analysing the concepts of health like normality, images, models and definitions,
disability, illness and behaviour..................................................................................................1
Q2 Assess how perceptions (e.g. stigma, discrimination) of specific needs have changed over
time..............................................................................................................................................2
Q3 Analysing the impact of social policy, practise, legislation and culture on the availability
of services for individual with specific needs.............................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
Q4 Analysing the care needs for individuals with specific needs...............................................3
Q5 Explaining current systems and services available to support patients with specific needs. 4
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................5
Q9 Explaining the different concepts of challenging behaviour in service users.......................5
Q10 Describing the potential effects of challenging behaviour on learning disability clinic and
the SEN schools..........................................................................................................................6
Q11 Analysing strategies used when working and supporting clients with specific needs........6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
There are some specific needs of individuals towards health and social care organisations
that the report will cover the concepts of health such as models of definition, disabilities and
behaviour or illness. Perceptions changes with time and impact of social and health care services
policies, legislation and culture will be discussed in this report. Care needs of an individual with
specific needs and system and services to support and provide effective services to them will be
covered in this report. Different approaches and interventions to reduce the impact of cancer in
an individual with specific needs and emerging development and technology impact on people
will be discussed in this report. Finally, the report will cover different concept of challenging
behaviour and its potential impacts and also strategies to support and provide effective services
to them.
TASK 1
Q1 Analysing the concepts of health like normality, images, models and definitions, disability,
illness and behaviour
It can be said that individual needs are changing with the environment. Health is very
important for an individual which depends on the quality of health services availed. Every
individual have different needs from one another. It has been seen from an analysis that there are
number of people in United Kingdom suffering from diabetes and also increasing very fast. A
proper treatment should be given to the individuals in order to maintain the quality of life
effectively and efficiently (Arnold and Boggs, 2015). Individual health create tension at
workplace, home and in the society. The behaviour and disability of an individual also affected
due to the disease. Disability can be define as restriction which an individual faces during the
daily physical activities. For an example, learning disabilities, cerebral palsy etc. specific needs
of an individual refers to the differ as per the age of the behaviour of individual in adopting the
various conditions and disease levels. Models are focused on the health of people. Models such
as agent host environment model, high level wellness model, health promotion model, health
belief model and health illness continuum model. These are the models which helps people by
improving the health and wellness which can be done by providing better care services to the
patient effectively and efficiently. Thus, it can be said that individual's needs are changed
according to the environmental changes which depends on the quality health and care services.
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Q2 Assess how perceptions (e.g. stigma, discrimination) of specific needs have changed over
time
Time is changing and the individual specific needs are served and met according to the
changes effectively. The positive change in the perceptions or beliefs of individuals towards the
disabilities and their needs. In the past, people normally assumed that people with disability is
possessed with a devil spirit and there are so many rumours which affect the behaviour of
individual towards his disabilities effectively (Beesley, Alemayehu and Webb, 2017). People
with disabilities treated badly from the societies and also asked to stay away from them which is
a not effective for an individual towards his disability. Changes in time reduces the
discriminatory practices and also the way of thinking of people towards individual with
disability. Development also leads towards the change in this perceptions and specific needs of
an individual effectively. In the present time, proper treatment is provided by the health care
towards the specific needs of an individual which he faces to explore and performing the daily
physical activities. The equality concept is adopted in order to provide effective and essential
health care services equally to the individuals with specific needs. Disability has also types such
as mental, physical and learning disabilities and the specific needs are also different according to
the age of individuals. In order to provide safeguarding and specific needs of an individual from
the ill practices, there are some rules and regulations are formulated.
Q3 Analysing the impact of social policy, practise, legislation and culture on the availability of
services for individual with specific needs
Legislation Social policy Society and culture Impact on services
available for
individuals with
specific needs
The equality act 2010
refers to provide equal
treatment for every
individual (Brownson,
Colditz and Proctor,
2017).
Health and social care
Individuals social
needs are different
from each other and
society support will
help to provide better
services for an
individual with
Individuals are human
beings and also
belongs from a society
that increasing
awareness among
society will help
individual with
The act will help
individuals by
providing them equal
opportunities to
provide effective
services to improve the
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