Online Course » MH02 Mental Health - Participant Empowerment

Course Description:
The purpose of this module is in teaching you the importance of promoting the rights and responsibilities of individuals and empowering them to make personal choices. This module will include strategies and resources for supporting individuals in their relationships with others and creating opportunities to express themselves in a safe and appropriate manner.  
Course Objective:
• Demonstrate respect for each individual and support for individual choice. 
• Demonstrate the ability to assess, teach, and support the individual to make choices. 
• Understand and support an individual's rights and responsibilities. 
• Use strategies that support client choice and help clients lead self-determining lives. 
• Recognize the benefits of participant empowerment and client choice as they relate to your direct support role.
Intended Audience:
Direct support professionals, case managers, nursing assistants, health aides 
Author Bio:
The Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers, Inc. also known as Providers’ Council is a statewide association of health and human service agencies. Founded in 1975, the Providers' Council is the state's largest human service trade association and is widely recognized as the official voice of the private human service provider industry. Providers’ Council founded and deployed the first online curriculum and credential programs for direct support professionals and continues to enhance this curriculum with current data and workforce practices.

Hours:
1.00
Certificates:
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