Question

Q8. Please provide information on referral options and resources available to support self-advocacy.

Q9. Outline three legal and ethical considerations for trauma related practice. provide a description of each.

Answer 1

8. Self Advocacy is the ability to speak up for oneself and the things that are important to him/ her.

Self Advocacy resources and services.

1. Learn about Self- Advocacy: Getting organized.

A presentation answering questions about how to organise a group of self advocates in ou area. Created by the Research I Training Center on community Living at the university of Minnesota.

2. Find, choose and keep Great DSPs

A toolkit for people with disabilities looking for quality, caring and committed direct support professionals. Designed to provide easy to use tips and strategies to help us find, choose and keep high quality Direct Support Professionals. Created by the department of disability and human development at the university of Minnesota.

3. Youths for Advocacy.

' Speak up materials' designed for those who want to learn about Self- Advocacy, practice tools for making choices and decisions about their future and find support and resources about subjects that interest them. It is provided by the Carolina Institute for developmental disabilities ( CIDD).

4. Project everybody.

It is a collaboration among different community organizations and nonprofits and leaf by Open door group with a focus on community inclusion for people of all abilities. The campaign is a series of five events happening from September 2014, leading up to a final celebration on December 3, 2014 at the Yaletown round house community centre which is the designated United Nations International day of persons with disabilities.

5. The Autistic self Advocacy network ( ASAN).

ASAN' s members and supporters include Autistic adults and youth,cross disability advocates and non autistic family members, professionals, educators and friends.

6. Employment matters: A documentary series by Brandy Yanchyk about inclusive hiring for people with intellectual disabilities.

Trauma related practice deals with self assessment, overview of trauma, working with a) traumatized children, Adolescents and families, adults. b) working with trauma integrated care settings c) self care.

1. Under traumatized children, adolescents and families, Areas of potential ethical and legal challenges include

* Informed consent - Age of consent, assent requirement.

* Mandated reporting - child maltreatment, harm to self and others.

* Legal Involvement - child custody, school matters and malpractice suits.

* Confidentiality - How much to share with parents/ guardians?, Who has access to records? Risky decision making, self harm.

2. Under traumatized adults, areas of potential ethical challenges include,

* Confidentiality - who is client?, Who owns privilege?, With whom do you have authorization to communicate?.

* Mandated reporting- child maltreatment, harm to self and others.

* Legal Involvement and relationships like boundaries and multiple roles.

3. Working with trauma in integrated care settings.

Areas of ethical challenges include:

* Informed consent in a fast paced environment

* Maintaining confidentiality with multidisciplinary teams.

* Providing speciality supervision to high risk patients.

* Beneficence versus harm from multidisciplinary perspectives.

* Feeling pulled in many directions like maintaining good professional relationships, protecting patient's privacy, sharing difficult news with the patient.