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This valuable text offers a range of practical, person centred and evidence based approaches to tackling challenges faced by professionals working with people with learning disabilities. It helps the reader to analyze issues relating to person centred practice and citizenship and considers the implications of this key government initiative for health and social care professionals.

The authors aim to support professionals in working through this changing agenda, whilst identifying the interface between their own professional practice and person centred approaches to working with people who have a learning disability. The book includes well referenced practical approaches to the subject area, alongside creative and innovative thinking.

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Explores the historical context of learning disability services and how this has contributed to the development of person centred services Introduces a range of practical person centred thinking tools that can be readily used within professional practice Contains a model to inform the delivery and integration of person centred practice within professional practice Considers the contribution of a range of different professional roles to the person centred and self directed support approach Evaluates the relevance of person centred thinking and planning to people from different cultural backgrounds and those undergoing the transition from adolescence to adulthood Person Centred Practice for Professionals is key reading for students, academics and professionals working or training to work with people with learning disabilities.

'A thoughtful and surprisingly emotional account of our complex relationship with stuff ... If you don't want your possessions to possess you, then this is a book you must read' Graham AllcottWhen you get clear about why your clutter is holding you back, you can finally let it go and create the home you love.Our homes have fascinating stories to tell. The spaces we inhabit and the objects within them reflect many aspects of our lives and our inner selves. In The Secret Life of Clutter, ten intimate and touching stories take you on a profound journey as people discover what their cluttered homes reveal about their lives, and make life-changing shifts when they start to let go and move on. The secret to creating a calm and nurturing home is to uncover the psychological reasons that lie beneath your clutter, and to understand that what is blocking you in your home and your life is often the key to moving forwards. Unlocking some of the meaning your possessions may hold can free you to say goodbye to what you no longer need, whilst keeping your precious memories intact. The insights revealed in this book will help you understand some of the factors that may be sabotaging your efforts to make more space. It will inspire you to take action and create a home that you love, that loves you back - a home that reflects who you are and the life you want to live.You'll never look at your clutter - or your home - the same way again.

'I loved it; it's original. A perfect way to trash your trash.' RUBY WAX'A thoughtful and surprisingly emotional account of our complex relationship with stuff ' GRAHAM ALLCOTT'Wonderful, moving and inspiring' JAMIE CATTO_____________________________________________________In The Secret Life of Clutter, ten intimate and touching stories take you on a profound journey as people discover what their cluttered homes reveal about their lives, and make life-changing shifts when they start to let go and move on. The secret to creating a calm and nurturing home is to uncover the psychological reasons that lie beneath your clutter, and to understand that what is blocking you in your home and your life is often the key to moving forwards. The insights revealed in this book will help you understand some of the factors that may be sabotaging your efforts to make more space. It will inspire you to take action and create a home that you love, that loves you back - a home that reflects who you are and the life you want to live.

Build a high-performing organization by embedding psychological safety throughout the business.Psychological Safety in Practice is a practical, evidence-based guide for senior HR leaders and people executives who want to improve performance, wellbeing and retention by creating workplaces where people feel safe to contribute, challenge and grow.Written by Helen Sanderson, an expert in wellbeing and health at work, this book moves psychological safety from theory into execution. It translates research into five clear foundations, mattering, voice, clarity, connection and learning, giving leaders a tangible framework they can apply across teams and functions.The book then shows how to embed psychological safety across the full employee journey, from recruitment and induction to feedback, development and progression. It addresses the structural, cultural and leadership decisions that determine whether psychological safety becomes embedded or undermined at scale.You will learn how to:- Ensure people feel like they matter and see how their work makes a difference- Invite voice so people speak up and know they will be taken seriously- Build clarity in roles, responsibilities and decisions across teams- Strengthen connection so teams agree how to work together and handle tension- Embed learning so everyday experience, including mistakes, improves the work- Embed the five foundations across the employee journey, from recruitment and induction to feedback, development and recognitionGrounded in research and practical application, this book provides the tools to create healthier workplace cultures, strengthen organizational resilience and unlock better business performance through psychologically safe ways of working.Themes include: psychological safety, employee engagement, organizational culture, HR leadership, trust and transparency, workforce performance

Build a high-performing organization by embedding psychological safety throughout the business.Psychological Safety in Practice is a practical, evidence-based guide for senior HR leaders and people executives who want to improve performance, wellbeing and retention by creating workplaces where people feel safe to contribute, challenge and grow.Written by Helen Sanderson, an expert in wellbeing and health at work, this book moves psychological safety from theory into execution. It translates research into five clear foundations, mattering, voice, clarity, connection and learning, giving leaders a tangible framework they can apply across teams and functions.The book then shows how to embed psychological safety across the full employee journey, from recruitment and induction to feedback, development and progression. It addresses the structural, cultural and leadership decisions that determine whether psychological safety becomes embedded or undermined at scale.You will learn how to:- Ensure people feel like they matter and see how their work makes a difference- Invite voice so people speak up and know they will be taken seriously- Build clarity in roles, responsibilities and decisions across teams- Strengthen connection so teams agree how to work together and handle tension- Embed learning so everyday experience, including mistakes, improves the work- Embed the five foundations across the employee journey, from recruitment and induction to feedback, development and recognitionGrounded in research and practical application, this book provides the tools to create healthier workplace cultures, strengthen organizational resilience and unlock better business performance through psychologically safe ways of working.Themes include: psychological safety, employee engagement, organizational culture, HR leadership, trust and transparency, workforce performance

Personalisation means people, their families and carers having choice and control over their support on a day-to-day basis. To deliver personalised services, professionals and carers need to do more than just hand over financial control: they need to know what is important to a person, the best way to support them, how they communicate and how they make decisions. This book will show how to deliver personalisation through simple, effective and evidence-based person-centred practice that changes people's lives and helps them achieve the outcomes they want. It covers why person-centred practice is relevant to the personalisation agenda and what person-centred thinking and person-centred reviews are, introducing the tools that can help you carry them out. It also explores the relationship between person-centred plans and support plans, and how person-centred practice can be used in the journey of support through adulthood – from prevention or the management of long-term health conditions to reablement, recovery, support in old age and at the end of life. There is also a chapter on taking a person-centred approach to risk.This is an essential guide for all staff in health and social care including service providers, managers, practitioners and students.

Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services.Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised services. Key issues covered include attending to the vision, strategy and business planning of the organisation, as well as organisational processes, culture and managing change. Drawing on the pioneering work of the social care charity United Response, the authors provide a wealth of practical tools and techniques to enable organisations within health, social care and the voluntary sector to use person-centred thinking tools and approaches to move towards becoming person-centred organisations.This is an essential guide for managers and leaders within private, statutory and voluntary organisations.Stephen Stirk is Director of Human Resources at the social care charity United Response. He has had over 30 years' experience in human resources, organisation development and line management positions, including specialism in organisation design and development with GlaxoSmithKline. Helen Sanderson is Director of Helen Sanderson Associates. She has written extensively on person-centred thinking, planning, community building and Individual Service Funds. She has worked with a range of providers to enable them to deliver more personalised services. She is co-author (with Jaimee Lewis) of A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation: Person-Centred Practice in Health and Social Care (Jessica Kingsley Publishers).

Personalisation builds on person-centred care to focus on how people with dementia can have more choice and control over decisions affecting them, and be supported to be part of their communities.This practical guide explains how to deliver personalised services and support for people with dementia through simple, evidence-based person-centred practices. The authors clearly explain personalisation and current person-centred thinking and practice, providing many vivid examples of how it has been achieved in community as well as residential care settings. They guide the reader through using a range of person-centred practices. Strategies for ensuring a good match between the person with dementia and the staff and volunteers supporting them are also described. In the final chapter, the reader is introduced to Progress for Providers, a photocopiable tool for tracking progress in delivering appropriate personalised support for people with dementia living in care homes.This is essential reading for dementia care practitioners and managers, as well as social and health care workers, community workers and students.

The Individual Service Funds Handbook is the definitive guide to one of the most innovative forms of personal budget in health and social care. It gives a clear explanation of what Individual Service Funds (ISFs) are, how to use them effectively and includes all the information you need in order to implement them in your organisation. The Handbook spans a range of settings, including a dementia care home, supported living and residential homes for adults with learning disabilities and people who use mental health services. It also sets out guidelines and templates which can be used when implementing ISFs, addressing key practical concerns including: how to put together effective support plans, and how to ensure that ISFs are delivered in a person-centred way, how to overcome organisational complexities in implementation and supporting managers. A one-stop resource for anyone wanting to understand the potential of ISFs, the Handbook is required reading for service providers, commissioners, and those engaged in person-centred practice and personalisation, including user-led organisations.

This book demonstrates very clearly how the personalisation of support and services works in practice. The authors describe how Jennie, a young person with autism and learning difficulties, was supported through the transition from school to living independently using simple, evidence-based person-centred planning tools. Jennie's story illustrates the importance of quality person-centred reviews, dispels the many myths surrounding Individual Service Funds and personal budgets and demonstrates how families, schools and other agencies can work collaboratively to help young people with disabilities move into adulthood with more choice and control over their lives, and with better life prospects. Practical pointers for readers to apply to their own circumstances are included, and the book contains helpful examples of the key person-centred thinking tools. Anyone involved in supporting children and young people with disabilities as they approach adulthood, including parents and carers, SENCOs, teachers, social workers and service providers, will find this to be essential reading. More generally, it will be an informative resource for those seeking a better understanding of how personalisation and person-centred planning work in practice.

Person-Centred Teams provides much-needed guidance on person-centred working following the roll out of personalisation and personal budgets across health and social care. In order to deliver personalisation you need to work with staff in person-centred ways. Straightforward and easy-to-read, this practical guide describes how to do this by developing a person-centred team using person-centred practices. The authors outline their model for developing a team, and how information is recorded in a person-centred team plan. They explain:Purpose - how to clarify a team's purpose People - what managers need to know about each team member, and how one-page profiles can helpPerformance - how to clarify service users' expectations of a team's services, and assess whether or not these are being met Process - how person-centred practices can aid teamwork and help your team deliver Progress - how to continuously improve teamwork and performanceEach section features clear illustrations and examples from teams to enable you to develop a person-centred team plan and work together in person-centred ways.This guide is essential reading for service providers, managers, practitioners and students in the health and social care fields, as well as person-centred planning coordinators and user-led organisations.

Dispelling the myths about how personalisation works for people with dementia living in care homes, this book demonstrates how to introduce Individual Service Funds (ISFs), what works and what doesn't, and how to deal with difficulties and setbacks.Individual Service Funds are one way that people living with dementia can have a personal budget. The authors explain how they went about introducing the principles of ISFs to people living with dementia in a large care home in Stockport, without using any additional funding. They describe the person-centred practices used and the involvement of the council, commissioners, staff and families. Through clear and detailed stories and examples, they demonstrate the dramatic approach to quality of life for people with dementia the approach can deliver. There is a strong emphasis on managerial and organisational issues, including getting staff 'on board', providing adequate support, budgeting, building effective partnerships and implementing change.Providing helpful insights and examples for good practice, this book is essential reading for all those involved in providing personalised care for people with dementia living in care homes, including care staff, care home managers, local authority commissioners, service providers and policy makers.