Healthcare and Specific Needs: UNIT 16 Report Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive overview of specific needs within healthcare, addressing concepts of health, disability, illness, and behaviour. It examines the impact of past and present legislation, highlighting the evolution of societal perceptions towards individuals with specific needs. The report delves into different care needs of individuals, including communication, daily activities, and language needs, while evaluating current support systems like self-help groups and IAPT programs. It explores various approaches and interventions for supporting individuals, assessing their effectiveness and potential impact of emerging developments. Furthermore, the report discusses challenging behaviour associated with specific needs, analysing its potential impact and outlining effective strategies for management. The report is a valuable resource for understanding the complexities of providing effective care and support to individuals with diverse needs.

UNIT 16: UNDR SPECIFIC
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Concepts of health, disability, illness and behaviour ............................................................3
1.2 Assessment about how perception have been changed..........................................................4
1.3 Impact of past and present legislation ...................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Different care needs of individuals........................................................................................5
2.3 Evaluation of services ...........................................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Approaches and interventions that are available for supporting individuals with specific
needs ...........................................................................................................................................7
3.2 Effectiveness of intervention strategies ................................................................................9
3.3 Potential impact of emerging developments .......................................................................10
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................11
4.1 Different concepts of challenging behaviour ......................................................................11
4.2 Potential impact of challenging behaviour .........................................................................11
4.3 Strategies for working with challenging behaviour associated with specific needs ...........13
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................15
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INTRODUCTION
Government has formed various policies that are mandatory to be followed so that effective care
should be rendered. Perception about specific needs have changes and people are taking more
initiatives for providing care to disable people who have specific needs. Present report discuses
about the specific needs of people going through disability and illness. Concept of health and
behaviour is also explained. Impact of various interventions made by health care homes is also
illustrated.
TASK 1
1.1 Concepts of health, disability, illness and behaviour
In social care there are various concept and styles related to health of people. Heath is
defined as state of human body which is completely balanced in terms of mental, physical and
emotional with no presence of any disease and fragility (Drummond and et.al, 2015) Health is of
three types physical health, metal health and emotional health. Physical health is state where all
parts of human body are performing their work properly and perfectly. In physical health all
parts of body should be there and should be in natural position. Mental health is state where
human body is capable of sensing, feeling, perceiving, judging and recalling. Mental health
includes metal aptitude which should be average more than average. Human should have the
ability to get thing as they are and do not include any assumptions. Whereas emotional health is
ability of brain how to response and react on particular situation.
Disability is termed as a condition in which affects daily life activities of human .It is
condition which impairs ability of person to perform tasks and actions. Disability can be mental,
physical and intellectual. The most common type of disability is physical disability in which
some part of body do not work properly (Klionsky and et.al, 2016). Some people suffers through
sensory divisibility in which human body is unable to sense and hear.
Illness is situation in which body suffers from some disease which can internal or
external. It is a condition in which human body becomes fragile and get infectious. Behaviour is
defined as actions and activities of individual with another person. It is ability of person how to
talk and communicate in surroundings in which he/she lives.
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1.2 Assessment about how perception have been changed
Perception of people regarding specific needs is changing in this advanced and new
world. Values and beliefs of individual have changed drastically over time.
According to case study given Peter is an old man and is suffering from mental illness. Cerebral
palsy has lowered down his hearing ability. Intellectual capability of him is very strong and he
handles various activities in theatre group (Williams and et.al, 2014). It is clear from the study
that government policies are supporting people in their safeguard during disability.
Perception of people towards person with specific need have been changing. In past these people
who have specific needs were neglected form society. Society use to treat them as an object of
fear. The attitude of people was dominating and due to this people with specific needs were
unable to participate and contribute in society. These people have to rely on charitable trusts for
their welfare. Now a day’s attitude of people towards disabled people is changing and they are
getting respect form society. People with specific needs have rights to participate in society.
Some rules and legislation have been made by government for these people. Government and
public authorities are giving attention to Peter. Due to that even suffering from mental disorder
he is able to perform his daily life activities properly. Accommodation provided by authorities to
disabled people is supporting them very well. Rule and regulations for the safeguard of disabled
people is helping people to survive in that condition. Governments making polices to support
person who are suffering from any type of disability.
1.3 Impact of past and present legislation (M1)
Various policies and legislation made by government for the safeguard of disabled people
has impacted specific needs of individual. Heath and social care organization are getting
facilities from government to fulfil specific need of individual patient properly. There are
different acts and policies made by government of UK for disabled people which is helping Peter
and his family to survive. Some acts are as follows:
Health and social care act 2012: This act provides rule that must be imitated by social care
organization in order to provide best services to patients. It provides various guidelines to social
care sector that should be used for monitoring regulating the health of individual patient. This act
describes that health care homes should make their proceeding smooth and fair for people. It
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provide regulation to give primary care services to patient and his family (Gordon and et.al,
2014).
National Health Service act 2006: This act is made for proper fund allocation to social care
homes and organization. This cat provide guidelines to give all required facilities to health care
home for appropriate functioning of them. This is concerned with monetary support to social
care.
Social policy made by government is also supporting and ensuring specific need of
people legislation and social policies are blessing society for people with specific needs. Society
and culture is playing significant role in progress of social care organization. Citing example of
Peter it can be concluded that family of Peter is able to live in society due to changed behaviour
and perception.
The legislations that have been stated before have severe impact over the services which
are made available to individuals with specific needs. In case of Peter, the absence of any sort of
legislation could have resulted in inappropriate treatment and negligent behaviour from the
individual that is providing respective services. Social policies like the National Health Service
Act (2006) and The Health and Social Care Act (2012) help in devising a disciplinary behaviour
amongst both service providers and users. It can be inferred that social policies and legislations
developed by the government help in ensuring best delivery of services for the person that has
conditions of specific needs.
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TASK 2
2.1 Different care needs of individuals
(M2)
CARE NEED OF ANIS
 Communication: Due to speech
impairment, Anis is not able to
speak properly and he requires
communication support from his
family. He requires a moral
support from his family members
in understanding his problems.
People around him should try to
understand his words by his
facial expressions so that he
would be able to speak about his
problems. All the people around
him should support him in
speaking. People should try to
understand what he is trying to
say and do not make fun of him
while he is speaking.
 Support in daily activities: As
described in the case study his
right part of the body is
paralysed and he is unable to do
his daily work properly. Anis
requires support in his daily
work and activities like going
from one place to another. He
requires a wheel chair to go from
one place to another so that he
can do his work appropriately.
To perform daily activities like
wearing clothes, eating food he
needs support of one person.
 Language Needs: Anis had
experienced paralysis which left
him slightly disoriented in terms
of speech and language. This
barrier of speaking can be
addressed only when language
needs of the person are fulfilled.
Hence, Anis requires vocal
expert who could guide and help
Anis to overcome his language
needs.
Care needs of Nilam:
 Needs support in managing
household work: Nilam is
recently diagnosed with
hypothyroid disease. Due to that
she is unable in managing her
household activities. She need an
assistance of person who can
help her in performing her
household work like dusting,
vacuuming, food preparing etc.
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 Needs care due to depression:
People around Nilam should
give her moral support. She
requires proper medication
and care during this condition.
Support from family members
is required for her. She also
needs proper sleep. Assistance
from care home doctors is
also needed.
 Spiritual Needs: Depression is
a severe mental condition
which requires proper
attention and care so that
patient doesn't lose hope and
willingness to survive. The
spiritual needs have been
recognised for Nilam so that
her depression gets cured
quickly. This shall further
help in attaining emotional
balance and mental peace.
Needs of Nafis
Nafis needs help in her studies
because she remain busy in caring for
her parents. She requires guidance in
her studies.
Support for studies: Financial support
is required by her for her expenses in
studies (Knight and et.al 2014.).
Intellectual Needs: Nafis is facing a
severely destructive atmosphere at
her residence due to the health issues
faced by her parents. In such
conditions, a person requires
intellectual capabilities for fighting
the circumstances and strive for
overcoming depressing factors.
Hence, intellectual needs of Nafis in
terms of education and knowledge is
recognised.
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2.2 Current systems for supporting individuals
Following are the current system
for supporting individual with
specific needs: Self-help groups: Self-help
groups in London are helping
people who have some
particular needs. They provide
counselling sessions to people
who are suffering from
depression as in case of
Nilam. These groups in
London are helps in providing
mental support to people.
They organizes various
counselling session so that
people can talk about their
problems. Primary care is
provided by these groups to
support people who are
disabled.
 IAPT programmes:
Improving access to
Psychological therapies
programs is helping people of
London who are disabled and
needs specific care. Aim of
this program is to help people
in getting therapy service in
conditions of depression and
disability. This programs is an
initiative by NHS to provide
psychotherapy for the needy
ones.
 Voluntary organisations:
Voluntary organisation are the
communities who help people
with specific needs. They
provides nurses and doctors to
disabled people for caring
them. They also provides care
workers to people so that they
can perform their daily
activities propelry.
 Apart from these systems
currently personal
development program are also
conducted by NHS to support
people who have particular
needs. Social and health care
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home in which Anis and
Nilam are living can provide
them facilities to improve
their condition. Infrastructure
and equipment used in social
care home should be designed
in way that can make it easy
for people with disability.
Anis and his family cab take
advantage of these facilities
for betterment of their life.
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2.3 Evaluation of services (D1)
Special facilities, equipment and
infrastructure in the locality in
which Anis and his family are
living can help them to reduce
their depression in following
way:
In London there are various
service available for the
individual person who have
specific needs. Locality in which
Anis and his family is living has
various social care homes and
health care organisations..
Personal development program
started by NHS also helps
individual to get rid from the
barriers and hurdles they faces in
society. These programs support
people to survive in society and
builds confidence in them. There
is availability of devices and
tools that are made for people
with disability. These suitable
devices are improving life of
people with specific needs..
Generic system is also available
in locality which will help in
taking care of MR. Anis.
Locality have number of number
of medical institutions for
treatment of people in emergent
situations. In the locality
recreational centres in which
offers people services for
amusement activities so that they
can recover from their diseases.
Various counselling session and
personal development programs
are organized by car organization
in this locality. However, locality
is lacking in good transportation
facility so that people could be
moved to medical centres in
emergency situations medical
institutions are very less in
number in that locality.
From the ideas synthesised
through this evaluation, it is
inferred that the availability of
efficient medical practitioners
and care providers helps in
meeting requirements of
individuals at any instance of
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time. The locality of London and
community authorities must
make it a point that rehabilitation
centres do not have any sort of
discrimination or bias when
providing services.
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TASK 3- ARTICLE
APPROACHES AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES THAT SUPPORT
INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIFIC NEEDS
June 30, 2017
Present article is about various approaches used for supporting people with specific needs. Three
are various like counselling, TEACCH methods use for intervention. The “Bourne wood case” is
concerned with Mr. L who was a patient of Bournewood hospital and was suffering from
autism.
3.1 Approaches and interventions that are
available for supporting individuals
with specific needs
The “Bourne wood case” is concerned
with Mr. L who was a patient of
Bournewood hospital. He was suffering from
autism. He was not retard under Mental
Health Act 1983. He filed case against
manager of hospital by alleging that he was
illegally detained from the hospital. His claim
was reject by high court. After this judgement
some changes have been made in supporting
individual with specific needs. After
Bournewood case approaches that are used by
social care homes to support people with
disability are changed. Some approaches and
interventions are as follows: Counselling: Many counselling sessions
are provided to autistic people.
Counselling helps person in dealing with
different situations. It includes talking
with patient to find out their problems and
issue in disease.
 Interventions for behaviour and
development: This intervention includes
various type of behavioural development
strategies and programs to make people
educate and learn about their illness and
disease. In these behavioural programs
special trainer and counsellors provides
training to people with specific
requirement. Training helps people to live
confidently in society.
 TEACCH approach: In this approach
knowledge and information about autism
is given to people suffering from this. It is
used for educating people about
collaborating with peoples.
 Cognitive Behavioural therapy: This
approach is very significant which used