🧠 SOCIAL WORK CORE PRACTICE
🗣️ Rights, Choice & Advocacy
Social workers support people to:
- Know their rights
- Make their own choices
- Be heard and respected
👉 This includes supporting people to make “unwise decisions”
(if they have capacity to do so)
🤝 Co-Production
Co-production means:
👉 Working WITH people, not doing TO them
It includes:
- The person
- Their family
- Carers
- Professionals
👉 Everyone is equal in decision-making
💪 Strengths-Based Approach
Focus on:
- What the person can do
- Their skills
- Their abilities
- Their strengths
❌ Not just difficulties
🧠 Trauma-Informed Care
Recognises that:
- Many people have experienced trauma
- Trauma affects behaviour and wellbeing
Support includes:
- Safety and calmness
- Trust building
- Avoiding re-traumatisation
🌍 Environmental Assessment
Social workers assess:
- Social barriers
- Accessibility issues
- Inequality
👉 Focus is not only the person, but the environment around them
🧠 Behaviour as Communication
Behaviour may indicate:
- Unmet needs
- Pain or illness
- Emotional distress
👉 Professionals must look beyond behaviour
🛠️ Tailored Therapy
Therapies (CBT/DBT) should be adapted:
- Simple language
- Visual aids
- Step-by-step learning
- Structured sessions
🛡️ Making Safeguarding Personal
Safeguarding should:
- Be person-centred
- Focus on prevention
- Support understanding of risk
- Empower the individual
👥 Social Group Work
Group work helps:
- Reduce isolation
- Build confidence
- Improve social skills
- Share coping strategies
⚖️ Mental Capacity Act (2005)
Social workers must:
- Assess decision-making ability
- Respect capacity decisions
- Act in best interests if needed
👉 Always promote dignity and independence
🔄 Transition Support
Supports people moving from:
- Child → adult services
Challenges:
- Loss of identity
- Reduced support
- Adjustment difficulties
👉 Must support independence and continuity
👨👩👧 Carer Support
Social workers support carers by:
- Listening
- Providing guidance
- Supporting wellbeing
👉 Carers often know the person best
🧠 Self-Care for Professionals
Social workers must:
- Manage emotional workload
- Use supervision
- Prevent burnout
🌟 Key Social Work Message
👉 Empowerment, rights, independence, and wellbeing are central
🧠 SUPPORT WORK SKILLS (CHAPTER 22)
🌍 Core Purpose
Support workers help people:
- Live independently
- Stay safe and healthy
- Learn life skills
- Access the community
- Achieve goals
❤️ Core Values
- Person-centred care
- Dignity
- Respect
- Empowerment
🧠 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY (CHAPTER 23)
Occupational therapy supports:
- Daily living skills
- Independence
- Functional ability
- Mental wellbeing
👉 Focus: “Helping people do everyday activities that matter to them”
🧠 PHYSICAL & MENTAL HEALTH INCLUSIVE CARE (CHAPTER 27)
🌱 Introduction
People with learning disabilities may:
- Have physical illnesses
- Have mental health conditions
- Show symptoms differently
👉 Early recognition is essential
🧠 Mental Health Overview
Mental health affects:
- Thinking 🧠
- Feeling ❤️
- Behaviour 🤝
👉 Everyone has mental health
⚠️ Mental Illness
Affects:
- Mood
- Thinking
- Behaviour
Examples:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Psychosis
😰 Common Mental Health Conditions
Anxiety
- Excessive worry
- Physical symptoms
- May appear as behaviour change
Depression
- Low mood
- Withdrawal
- Loss of motivation
PTSD
- Trauma response
- Flashbacks
- Avoidance
➕ Other Conditions
- Bipolar disorder
- Eating disorders
- Schizophrenia
🚨 Warning Signs
- Behaviour change
- Withdrawal
- Sleep changes
- Loss of appetite
- Aggression or distress
⏱️ Why Early Detection Matters
- Improves outcomes
- Prevents deterioration
- Supports independence
🧠 Physical + Mental Health Link
- Stress affects body
- Illness affects mood
👉 Must be treated together
🤝 Support Strategies
- Clear communication
- Routine
- Emotional support
- Structure
- Safeguarding awareness
🧑⚕️ Professional Practice
Staff must:
- Observe changes
- Act early
- Communicate clearly
- Escalate concerns
🌟 Key Message
👉 Early action, awareness, and holistic care improve outcomes
🏥 PHYSICAL HEALTH & MEDICAL AWARENESS
🚨 Increased Health Risks
People may experience:
- Epilepsy
- Chronic illness
- Sensory impairments
- Gastrointestinal issues
⚠️ Health Inequalities
Caused by:
- Poor access to services
- Communication barriers
- Stigma
- Discrimination
🧪 Proactive Care
- Regular health checks
- Screening
- Monitoring baseline health
🤝 Multidisciplinary Teams (MDT)
Includes:
- Doctors
- Nurses
- Therapists
- Social workers
- Support staff
👉 Teamwork improves outcomes
🧠 Barriers to Care
- Communication difficulties
- Transport issues
- Ableism
- Service gaps
❤️ Holistic Care
Treat the whole person:
- Physical health
- Mental health
- Emotional wellbeing
- Social needs
🚨 Red Flags
- Behaviour change
- Isolation
- Physical symptoms
- Loss of skills
👉 Always investigate medical causes
🌟 Key Message
👉 People with disabilities have the same health needs but may need different support
🧠 GP TRAINING MODULE
GPs must:
- Provide accessible communication
- Offer annual health checks
- Avoid diagnostic overshadowing
- Make reasonable adjustments
⚖️ Mental Capacity Act
Ensures:
- Capacity assessment
- Best interest decisions when needed
🌟 GP Key Message
👉 Equal, accessible, early intervention care saves lives
🚑 PARAMEDIC TRAINING MODULE
🚨 Core Role
Respond to:
- Medical emergencies
- Mental health crises
- Disability-related needs
🧠 Communication
- Simple language
- Calm tone
- Visual cues
- Extra time
🧘 De-escalation
- Stay calm
- Reduce stimulation
- Provide reassurance
🧠 Mental Health First Aid (ALGEE)
- Assess
- Listen
- Give reassurance
- Encourage help
- Encourage self-help
⚖️ Legal Duties
- Consent
- Safeguarding
- Disability rights
🌟 Key Paramedic Message
👉 Safety, dignity, and communication are essential in crisis care
🧠 SOCIAL WORK CORE SUMMARY
Social workers:
- Build relationships
- Use adapted communication
- Listen and observe
- Protect rights
- Support independence
- Use trauma-informed care
- Focus on strengths
🧠 FINAL MASTER KEY MESSAGE
💚 Across ALL services:
- Communication must be adapted
- Behaviour is communication
- People have rights and choices
- Health must be treated holistically
- Early intervention improves outcomes
- Inclusion and dignity are essential
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