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Person Centred Approach to Risk

Every opportunity contains risks – a life without risk is a life without opportunities, often without quality and without change.
Traditional methods of risk assessment are full of charts and scoring systems, but the person, their objectives, dreams and life seem to get lost somewhere in the pages of tick boxes and statistics. 

A person centred approach seeks to focus on people’s rights to have the lifestyle that they chose, including the right to make ‘bad’ decisions.  The approach described here uses person centred thinking tools, to help people and those who care about them most think in a positive and productive way about how to ensure that they can achieve the changes they want to see while keeping the issue of risk in its place.

This in essence is a process to gather, in partnership with the person, the fullest information and evidence to demonstrate that we have thought deeply about all the issues involved.  Decisions are then guided by what is important to the person, what is needed to keep them healthy and safe and on what the law says.


 

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