HSER 1070 - Helping Clients with Disabilities

1. Advocacy skill development
2. Chronic loss and its effect on lifestyle adjustment
3. Definitions of disability
4. Goal development: financial, social, hopes, and dreams
5. Helper interventions for visible and invisible disability
6. Impact of disabling conditions on individual and family
7. Intervention approaches that facilitate: client empowerment, maximizing potential with a focus on what client can do
8. Models of decision making

1. Define disability.
2. Identify the impact of living with chronic conditions on the individual, family and community.
3. Describe how personality and self-esteem are affected in the individual and family.
4. Demonstrate helper interventions that increase and positively affect client capability and family adaptability.
5. Demonstrate skills that help clients and families make empowering decisions.
6. Identify models and techniques of advocacy.

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