Individual needs within the health and social care sectors

Katie-May Hall Btec First Diploma Health and Social Care Unit 2 Activity 2 P2 M1 P2 To achieve this activity I must identify the potential affects four factors that can influence the health and needs of an individual. M1 To achieve this activity I need to explain why each factor affects an individual. I am relating this to my work in P3 where I have prepared a case study about Holly, a middle aged single mother if two teenage girls who is over weight, smokes and lives in a damp terraced house that she rents, she also finds it hard to get out to local facilities due to poor transport links. . Being Over weight * Can increase the number of heart related illnesses due to the increased pressure on the heart to pump the blood around the body, these can be, high blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks, high blood cholesterol, diabetes. Poor circulation can lead to thrombosis, dizziness, feeling light headed and headaches. Poor flexibility due to excess body fat can lead to osteoarthritis; extra skin folds increase the chances of fungal skin infections. The additional fat around the neck and face makes overweight people snore and can bring on other sleep related problems like sleep apnoea. If surgery was a required, this can lead to problems with aesthetic and the ability to recover well after and operation. * An individual that is overweight can be bullied and teased

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Professional development

D1 by Hada Mohamud Professional development Evaluate how personal learning and development may benefit others. Me In this assignment I will be evaluating how my personal learning and development as benefited others around me. I have the capability to assist others and use my knowledge and skills when doing this. Occasionally it can go very well and effective, however other sometime the wrong knowledge can be passed on to others. Therefore I will be evaluating the positive and negative effects my knowledge, skills and understand can have on others. There are many skills and experience I have developed through my course; furthermore I have developed the skill to put knowledge into practice. This has helped me to develop my personal learning in terms of using my skills in the health and social care sector. The knowledge I have developed over the years in my course not only benefit service users, friends teachers, since I use these skills to help my family increase their knowledge of several of things. Family During the past few years the knowledge and skills I have gained, has benefited my family in terms of increasing their knowledge particularly health and well-being. Furthermore it helped them to develop skills for day to day living. One example would be nutrition, over the past year I have develop knowledge on this particular subject as I was studying it as a

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The Sixth Sense

It must be difficult to cast films where the central character is a young child, particularly when the role is so emotionally demanding. In the case of Avy Kaufman, she either got very lucky or made an inspired choice by casting Haley Joel Osment. He plays Cole Sear and owns the screen for the large majority of the show. Cole is tormented but it isn't until about half way through the film that we find out it is because he can see the dead. And to an eight-year-old, being visited by disturbed, maimed and angry spirits is horrifying. It's made all the worse because he has no one he can turn to for support. He is the only one who can see ghosts and his behavior has made him a freak in the eyes of his classmates and teacher. The film starts with a frightening glimpse of what Cole may become. Renowned child psychologist Dr Malcolm Crowe has a grim reunion with a former patient. An unstable child of yesteryear, Vincent Gray, has grown into a fractured and psychotic adult who wants nothing more than to remind Malcolm of his failure, before killing himself. The reminder takes the form of a bullet in his doctor's stomach. We catch up with the good doctor, played superbly by Bruce Willis, about a year later. (This role is not unlike that Willis had in The Color of Night, although in this case his character is a gentler soul.) Malcolm is reviewing his case notes on young Cole,

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  • Subject: Health and Social Care
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Understanding effective communication

2 of 4: Understanding effective communication P2: Discuss theories of communication This essay will discuss about theories of communication The communication cycle works when two individuals understand one another’s opinion or discussion. Communication cycle takes place when two people are interacting and to receive the message just to make sure that they understood what was said. Listening skills is another way to achieve effective communication which can develop the understanding of the viewpoint. There has been an argument about interpersonal communication which (Michael Argyle, 1972) has stated that “This skill could be learned and developed in much the same way as learning to drive a car.” He was talking about drivers that they have to control and manage their feelings, depends on what is happening on the road. What he’s trying to explain is that as a driver they also use their cycle skills such as constant. It means that the diver has to pay attention what is happening on the road to overcome hazards, plan how to respond, create response and then the repetition cycle will take account so that the diver will be able to get their destination. The communication cycle has a code which needs to be translated. The person has to find about what the other person is trying to say and to view their behaviour. Tuckman is an interaction that takes place in a group with

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