Question

Rebecca has been diagnosed with a severe anxiety disorder and is working successfully on a recovery process. Rebecca tells Laura, her support worker, that she wants to return to university full-time to complete her education as part of her recovery process. Laura is concerned that this will be stressful for Rebecca and may trigger a reoccurrence of her anxiety. Laura has organised a planning session to complete Rebecca’s individualised plan

4. Where could Laura find more information about the requirements of the service planning tool/s?

5.What are the key aspects of individualised service delivery in this situation?

6.Why should Laura collaborate with Rebecca and any significant people in Rebecca’s life to establish her goals?

7. What are Rebecca’s needs? Explain how they are interrelated.

8. How can Laura ensure an integrated approach to her service delivery?

9. Should Laura carry out a risk assessment specific to Rebecca’s circumstances? Why or why not?

10.Why is it important that Laura discuss the risks with Rebecca?

11.How could Laura work collaboratively with Rebecca to minimise risks?

12.How should Laura manage their conflicting opinions about Rebecca’s goals?

Answer 1

4.Laura can collect more informations from:

• Rebecca's hospital records
• Rebecca's family and friends
• The university she studied
• From Rebecca's consultant doctor
• From Rebecca itself by asking relevant questions in a calm manner.

5. Key aspects of individualised service for Rebecca

• The planning should be based on the available history and data
• It should be disease centered as well as patient centered
• It should be goal oriented
• It should be planned with minimum expected failure
• Utilize all available social support
• Make patient participate in planning phase knowingly or unknowingly

6.Laura should collaborate with Rebecca and any significant people in Rebecca's life to set the goal because by doing so the chance of success of the goal is more. The significant person can guide to positive outcome of goal because the person knowns almost all aspects of Rebecca's condition including the predisposing factors and can guide accordingly.

7.Rebecca want to continue her university studies in a full-time basis and make it a part of her recovery process. It will be really helpful in her recovery if she can do it positively or with good outcome. But as she is in the recovering phase of severe anxiety disorder it can worsen her condition due extreme stress of studies.