Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Mental Illness
This free course guiding key principles for supporting individuals with disabilities and mental illness, as well as communities involved in the care process.
This free online intellectual disability and mental healthcare course will teach you about how quality care services depend on understanding clients. You will study the four guiding principles of support work and how the strengths and resources of clients and their communities are involved in the care process. You will also look into the historical use of names and labels for people with disabilities, and more.
What You Will Learn In This Free Course
Support Work: The Fundamentals
In this module you will learn why quality care services depends on understanding clients; the four guiding principles of support work and how the strengths and resources of clients and their communities are involved.
What’s in a Name?
In this module, you will trace the historical use of names and labels for people with disabilities, as well as their impact and you will identify classification categories that differentiate levels of intellectual disability and intensities of supports.
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