Understanding Consumer Control, Person-Centered Planning, and Self-Direction

Online Courses

Description

This course is designed to help workers more fully understand the definition and meaning of person- centered planning, consumer control, consumer choice, and consumer direction and the practice of this approach and philosophy. This course will also review historical developments of consumer control, legal mandates and provide scenarios throughout. This course relies heavily on interactive exercises and scenarios to help you understand consumer control, person-centered planning, and self-direction in a real-life context.

*You can register for this course individually or as part of a certificate program.

Learner Feedback:

“It was an interesting course to expand my knowledge.  As a nurse we’ve always worked under the role of case management.  In the last few years we’ve made patient-centered philosophy a focus of our eldercare practice.  Many of our clients have dementia so there is a definitely a balance in communicating with families to learn their likes and dislikes as well as being “of the moment” to determine what their likes are on an ever-changing basis.  We collaborate with our local ADRS routinely to get clients and families the services they need as a partnership.”

Contributing Authors:

Bronwyn Keefe, PhD, MSW, MPH is the Assistant Dean of Workforce and Professional Development at Boston University School of Social Work where she is also the Director for The Center for Aging and Disability Education and Research (CADER) and The Network for Professional Education.

Amelia Paini, MSW, Program Manager for Curriculum Development, Boston University School of Social Work

Joan Ead, Eadem Writing Associates

Objectives

• Describe your role as it pertains to consumer direction.
• Summarize the history of the Independent Living Movement.
• Describe the history of aging and disability policy.
• Explain how your work is consumer controlled.
• Identify decision-making tools to use with consumers.