CHCDIS001: Skills Development with Strengths-Based Approach - Solution

This document provides a comprehensive solution to a CHCDIS001 assessment, focusing on contributing to ongoing skills development using a strengths-based approach. It covers key concepts such as person-centered practice, strengths-based support, legal and ethical considerations related to privacy and confidentiality when working with people with disabilities, and the principles of access and equity. The solution addresses the impact of social devaluation on quality of life and strategies for encouraging socially disadvantaged individuals to develop their skills. It also outlines the aims of community education programs, methods for objective note-taking during assessments, and ways to support people with disabilities in engaging actively in life. Furthermore, it provides examples of formal and informal skills development strategies, discusses how support workers can assist with ongoing skill development, and identifies resources for people with special needs. The document also explains how to provide constructive feedback, defines incidental learning, outlines different learning styles, and explores effective teaching and learning circumstances for adults, including strategies for maximizing informal learning opportunities. Finally, it highlights the importance of encouragement and positive feedback as motivators and provides examples of possible motivators for learners.

CHCDIS001
Contribute to ongoing skills
development using a
strengths-based approach
Release 1
Total Training Solutions Adelaide
Assessments
RTO NO 41373
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CHCDIS001
Contribute to ongoing skills development using a strengths-based approach – Assessments
Part A – Questions
Question 3 Explain what is meant by a person-centred approach or practice.
Answer It refers to the approach in which service provision sees individual as the expert in
their life. Through this, individual is able to achieve their goals. this also includes
delivering services to fulfil individual needs and their unique circumstances. This
can help to ensure people should physically safe and comfortable.
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Question 4 Explain what is meant by a strengths-based support or practice.

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Contribute to ongoing skills development using a strengths-based approach – Assessments
Answer This states that every individual is important and should be treated as an individual.
There is also development of areas like life skills, social skills, personal support
skills, vocational skills and many more. This also implies to collaborative process
within individual service and those who are supporting them.
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Question 5 Explain the legal and ethical considerations for working with people with disability in
relation to privacy, confidentiality and disclosure.
Answer There is same laws and ethical consideration which are effective and people with
disability are protected through the same laws that implement on everyone. This
may include human rights like respect, freedom, dignity and equality.
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Question 6 Explain the principles of access and equity.
Answer Equity principle implies to ensure that everyone should be treated justly and fairly.
In this, every individual should be treated equally and provided same standard of
training, resources and support. In this, there should not any type of discrimination
with anyone. It also implies the equal access to people with disabilities.
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Question 7 What is the likely impact of social devaluation on a person’s quality of life?

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Answer There is high negative impact of social devaluation on individual quality of life. In
this, person may feel withdrawal and get depressed. They may also feed not valued
due to treated badly or neglected or abused. This can lead to decline the quality of
life of individual and people may face social exclusion.
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Question 8 What are some of the ways that socially disadvantaged people can be encouraged
to develop their skills and abilities, thereby enhancing their place in society?
Answer There are some of the ways through which socially disadvantaged people may get
encouraged for developing their abilities and skills which can be helpful in
enhancing their place within society. This may include the improving communication
skills, performing their task themselves and putting high effort to get equal to all
other.
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Question 9 Outline the broad aims of community education programs. Suggest some practical
ways to achieve these aims.
Answer Aim of the community education programs is to develop capacity of group or
individual to delivery some learning and development through action. This can help
to improve individual quality of life. This can also help to participate in democratic
processes.
Through training and education individual can work within an organisation which
can allow to improve their quality of life.
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Question 10 When conducting assessments or recording notes about a person, how do you
ensure that your notes are objective and clear?

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Answer Through ensuring about the objective of recoding notes are clear, there is need to
identify some key term which are necessary to include in recording like service user
name, date of services, type of delivered services, what happened and what
needed to do. These are some of the information which should be there in recording
notes to ensure that object is clear.
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Question 11 Give examples of the ways that support can be provided to people with disabilities
to assist them to engage as actively as possible in life activities?
Answer Inclusion is one of the best way through which individual with disabilities can get
involved and can get assisted for getting engage in different life activities. In this,
through supporting and providing care can also help in live effectively and perform
different activities.

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Question 12 Give two examples of formal and two examples of informal skills development
strategies that may be included in individual development plans.
Answer Two examples of formal skills development are:
 Training
 Education and learning
Two example of informal skills development are:
 Through continuous practicing in daily life.
 Through observing others to using those skills.
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Question 13 How can support workers assist with ongoing development of the following skills?
Provide an example for each. The first has been done for you.
• Support – support workers can assist by providing information or referral; for
example, making contact with a peer support group.
• Social
• Relationship
• Life
• Safety
• Vocational
Answer • Social- support worker should take care about the social influence to deliver
support. For example- connecting with society people.
• Relationship- Support worker should help them to communicate with others.
For example- establishing better relationship with service provider.
• Life- support worker should delivery quality service to improve quality of life.
For example- supporting in performing daily work.
• Safety- Support worker need to take care about safety of individual. For
example- Helping in movement.
• Vocational- Support worker should help to communicate. For example- to share
or express emotions.

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Question 14 Identifying additional resources needed by someone to build on their skills is a
critical step. How can support workers assist with this process?
Answer There are some of the additional resources which are needed by someone for
building on skills for the critical step. These sources may incudes networking,
contacting case manager, peer support, using professional advocates. Here,
support worker should help and assist individual by sharing information that can be
effectively communicated.
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Question 15 List some of the services and resources that may be needed by people with special
needs for the following areas. The first has been done for you.
• Home care – People receiving home care may need support to access
additional services such as gardening, maintenance and window cleaning.
Alternatively, they may need support to obtain resources that build on their
current strengths to reduce isolation, such as specialised transport or
communication devices.
• Respite
• Employment
• Recreation
• Residential
Answer • Respite- This is the situation in which individual may not ask for the more help
than they needed. There is need for either additional support by hours,
activities, fitness centres, gym and some cultural groups.
• Employment- This can be job related information in which support worker
should help individual to get better and effective services and help to get better
implementation for job assistance.
• Recreation- in this, support worker should help to identifying new or different
activities which should be recreated like equipment, tools or other materials
which can help to complete projects.
• Residential- There is need to take part in the social activities with house which
can help in wider community to provide better sense of independence.

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Question 16 How should constructive feedback be given to a person with an intellectual disability
in a way that is both appropriate and respectful?
Answer This can help to assist individual in receiving good behaviour that can allow to face
effectively. In this, constructive feedback can allow individual to not face low self-
esteem and provide potential to deal with is more positively.
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Question 17 Explain what is meant by ‘incidental learning’ and when it is most likely to occur.

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Answer Incidental learning refers to the learning which can occurs outside of classroom and
can help to provide better learning. This can be most likely to occur during learning
and utilising the information.
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Question 18 Define the different learning styles:
• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinaesthetic
Answer • Visual- This is the one which includes the person which can help to learn
through reading instructions that can help to follow diagrams.
• Auditory- in this, person learns through listening radio, instructions and reading
books.
• Kinaesthetic- in this, person learns through copying what needs to do either by
trial along with error and experimentation.

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Question 19 Explain the teaching and learning circumstances when adults are most likely to
learn best.
Answer During delivery of service there is need to perform well to provide better care and
support to the individual which can be effective and provide teaching and learning
circumstances when adults are likely to learn best.
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Question 20 Explain the process of each of the following strategies that could be used by care
workers for identifying and maximising informal learning opportunities. The first one
has been done for you.
Answer • Demonstration – Break down the process into steps and demonstrate and
discuss each step. After each step check the person understands.
• Role-modelling: - It refers to the process which allows individual to learn some
new behaviour which can help to without any trial or error during doing
anything.
• Drama and role-plays: This can help in assigning a role during small scenario.
This allow to act any individual during any situation. This includes many people
to stay in groups for assigning roles for themselves.

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• Contextualisation: This one help to put the language items in real and
meaningful context instead of making it isolated. It also manipulates individual
for practice only.
• Peer Education: This provide approach to health promotion which can help
community to support health enhancing and change peers. It also includes the
sharing of health information, behaviour or values in education.
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Question 21 What resources or tools are available that may be useful to support learning?
Answer This tools may include the physical aids like calculators, method and teaching
strategies like practical demonstration along with experimental learning. Equipment
like possible, generic and typical equipment like aid rehabilitation, using of typical
gym equipment.
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Question 22 Explain why encouragement and positive feedback are effective motivators for a
learner.
Answer This can help to get positive attitude towards the feedback and encourage to
perform well and improve the practice. This also help to stay motivated to work
effectively without losing hope or getting depressed. This can help positively to
conduct any work for better learning.
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Question 23 Provide a possible motivator for each of the following examples. The first one has
been done for you.
Answer • Being recognised by their peers or the community; teacher, trainer, recreational
officer congratulating them – being recognised by others
• Finding they can achieve things for themselves that give greater independence-
discovering new power and ability
• Being told how much they have grown and developed, seeing their progress
towards a personal goal- self-esteem
• Having a crowd of people tell them they have done well, being clapped or
applauded- Being centre of attention
• Special outings such as going to the football, special food or favourite meal, a
new piece of equipment, game, electronic device- concreate rewards
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