Person Centred Practice
Person Centred Practice are ways of commissioning, providing and organising services rooted in listening to what people want, to help them live in their communities as they choose.
Here are some examples of what you would see where there is person centred practice:
- Person's perspective is listened to and honored
- Individuals have a role in planning the supports they receive & the staff that are hired
- Regularly look at people's lives to see what is working and not working Employees know their roles and responsibilities in supporting people
- Staff are matched with people based on skill and common interests.
Total Communication. Person Centred Thinking, Planning and Practice
by Kim Williams, SALT Salford Primary Care trust, Learning Difficulty Service; Louise Skelhorn, Helen Sanderson Associates and Alison Matthews, SALT Oldham Learning Disability Services.
This booklet describes the philosophy and approaches of total communication. This includes: total communication; a word about understanding; a word about expression; communication model; pre verbal, pre intentional and gesture; objects; photographs, line drawings, symbols; signing; spoken language; witten language.
Available to purchase from the HSA Press website
Click here for a free download (Available in A4 PDF format only)
For more information
In the UK contact helen@helensandersonassociates.co.uk
In the USA contact amandag@helensandersonassociates.com
In Canada contact juliem@hsacanada.ca
In Australia contact info@helensandersonassociates.com.au
Reading Room
Visit our reading room for more information and examples of Person Centred Practice.
- About us
- What We Do
- Where
- How
- Who
- Families
- Children, Young People and Transition
- Older People
- People with Health Issues
- People with Long Term Health Conditions
- People and End of Life
- People with Dementia
- People with Developmental /Learning Disabilities
- People with Mental Health Issues
- People who are Homeless
- People who use Substances
- People who Experience Domestic Violence
- People with acquired brain injury
- Training & Consultancy
- Our Programmes
- Our Courses
- An Introduction to Personalisation in Health
- Developing Person Centred Teams and Implementing Planning.
- Developing Support Plans
- Essential Lifestyle Planning - Train the Trainers.
- Essential Lifestyle Planning Facilitator Training.
- Habits for highly effective staff Using person-centred thinking in day-to-day work
- Just Enough Support
- Learning and Reflection Day for Support Planners
- Managers and Person Centred Practices - using the new "Progress for Providers for Managers" - Checking your progress in using Person Centred Approaches
- MAP and PATH.
- Marketing your Organisation for Personalisation.
- One Page Profiles.
- Outcome Focused Reviews.
- Outcome Focused Reviews - An Introduction.
- Pathways and Profiles
- Person Centred Reviews - Transition Reviews and Citizenship Reviews.
- Person Centred Reviews: Important To/For and Working/Not Working Reviews
- Person Centred Reviews in Transition: Using the Transition Pathways
- Person Centred Risk.
- Person Centred Supervision.
- Person Centred Thinking - Train the Trainers.
- Person Centred Thinking Skills.
- Person Centred Thinking Skills with Older People
- Person Centred Thinking Skills with people who are living with Dementia
- Planning Live! Workshop.
- Positive and Productive Meetings.
- Progress for Providers and Customer Journey.
- Re-ablement (1-Day).
- Re-ablement (2 day)
- Re-ablement, the New Journey. Design Day.
- Support Planning in Health
- Support Planning Awareness Day
- The changing role of the health care practitioner within personal health budgets
- Workforce Development Strategy Day.
- Working Together for Change.
- Working with Decision-Makers in Health (The people who sign off Support Plans)
- Reading Room
- Where
- Who
- Families
- Children, Young People and Transition
- Older People
- People with Health Issues
- People with Long Term Health Conditions
- People and End of Life
- People with Dementia
- People with Developmental/Learning Disabilities
- People with Mental Health Issues
- People who are Homeless
- People who use Substances
- People who Experience Domestic Violence
- People with aquired brain injury
- How
- Resources
- Blogs
- Helen (UK)
- Amanda (USA)
- Deb (Australia)
- Julie (Canada)
- HSA Foundation
- Liz and Sarah Jane (Celebrating Families)
- Think About Your Life
- Jane (Cancer Survivor)
- Norris Bank Primary School
- Oxley Park Academy
- Dimensions (Provider)
- Care UK (Provider)
- Living Ambitions (Provider)
- Certitude (Provider)
- Real Life Options (Provider)
- Hull City Council
- Action on Hearing Loss
- Gill (HSA)