There are many online education opportunities for anyone who is interested in learning more about providing person-centred care and support for people with a disability.
More details below.
- Idmh e-learning
The Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) at UNSW Sydney have developed free eLearning resources about intellectual disability for professionals, carers, and consumers. Their goal is to improve your knowledge, skills and confidence, leading to better mental health and wellbeing for people with an intellectual disability. This site was designed to be an interactive education resource for everyone with an interest in intellectual disability mental health.There are a number of modules available, covering topics such as:
- Introduction to intellectual disability
- Living with an intellectual disability
- Intellectual disability – changing perspectives
- Mental disorders in intellectual disability
- Communication: the basics
- Improving your communication
- Assessment of mental disorders
- Management of mental disorders
- Equality in mental health care – a guide for clinicians
- Consent, decision-making & privacy – a guide for clinicians
A one hour Power Point presentation, including facilitators notes, has been developed for Health and Disability Staff to co-facilitate an education session for clinical staff.
NSW Health Policy Directive responding to the needs of people with a disability during hospitalisation.
- A hospital admission for a person with a cognitive disability can be a confusing and frightening experience resulting in behaviours that are difficult to interpret and manage by staff who don’t know the person.
- This increases the risk that the patient’s presentation could result in missed diagnosis, escalation of behavioural problems, inefficient use of resources, and increased length of stay, miscommunication between multidisciplinary teams and disjointed discharge planning and disconnection with community resources that could lead to unplanned readmission.
- To improve your understanding and awareness about Disability complete an online module.
A one hour Power Point presentation, including facilitators notes, has been developed for Health and Disability Staff to co-facilitate an education session for clinical staff.
My Health Learning has developed a number of modules about disability as well as partnering with carers.
You can access the My Health Learning site here then login using your stafflink details.
Select catalogue from the top menu, and then search.
Enter disability into the search box to access a range of modules.
They include:
- Let’s Talk Disability
- Partnering with Carers
- Be My Brother
- Intellectual Disability and Mental Health
- Cognitive Disability and the Criminal Justice System
- MHPOD: Dual Disability
- MHPOD: The Broad impact of Mental Illness and the need for Partnership
- The Interviewer
The A2D Going to Hospital poster
A Going to Hospital poster has been developed to display in supported accommodation, to remind Disability Support Workers of the process to follow when there is a medical emergency. It can be printed as an A3 or A4 size poster and displayed to support the Going to Hospital training package. Click on the poster image at right to download.
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A one hour Power Point presentation, including facilitators notes, has been developed for Health and Disability Staff to co-facilitate an education session for clinical staff.