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14 Social Care in Action

 

Professional intervention

Purposes
  • Protect - such as to develop the problem-solving skills
  • Lessen detrimental effect - such as to relieve the discomfort due to the cancer symptoms
Types
  • Medical treatment - such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy
  • Counselling - such as family counselling, career counselling
  • Psychotherapy

 

 

Services
Purposes
  • preventive (primary care, education)
  • intervention, curative, maintenance, emergencies (first aid, medical care)
  • rehabilitation (shelter workshops, drug addicts, gamblers, mental illness)
Types
  • Health services: General Practices, hospital, dental services, chiropody, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, community health services, dietetic advice, etc.
  • Social services: residential care, day care and home care, community services, counseling etc.
Other modes
  • mutual aid groups, support groups on Internet, hotlines, clanship or hometown association etc.
Forms of service delivery
  • e.g. integrated services,  specialised services, centre-based services,  outreach services, home-based, residential services
New trends in the delivery of health services and social care services
  • Community based: focus at district level, long term care
  • Community development – empowering a local community by professionals to address local concerns and provide support and care

 

 Roles of management

Different roles of health care management in different settings How these roles contribute to the operation of the settings
Monitoring
Establishing and monitoring operational policies and procedures
Quality assurance
Ensuring the quality of service provision
Supervision
Maximizing staff effectiveness
Administration
Facilitating the operation
Finance
Budget control
Integrated approach – extended or hybrid role
  • Extended role: extension of the original role
  • Hybrid role: more than one role

Models of communication

Linear Model
  • One-way communication that the sender delivers the message and the receiver receives the message
  • Limitation: no chance for clarification of message / senders have to verify that what the listener heard is what they meant to say
Circular Model
  • Two-way communication that the sender delivers messages and the receiver gives feedback to the sender on the message he/she receives

  • Limitation:
    • This model may require a longer time of communication (vs Linear Model)
    • Noises will lead to unintended additions, distortions, or deletions of a message that block desired understanding (vs Helical Model)
Helical Model
  • Communication evolves in the beginning and then develops further with modifications
  • Limitation: require the longest time of communication and not applicable to the urgent cases

Latest Update: 11 January 2021

 

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Assessing my learning

What are the purposes of professional intervention?
How do these purposes realise in service provision?
How can the services be delivered effectively to meet the objectives of service provision?

Note-taking Tools

One Note
Docs

My Data Bank

One Drive
Google Drive

Collaboration Platform

Google Sites
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Presentation Tools

Google Slides
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