The RCT Source

This course is accessible to all social care staff.

Course aim – Tom Kitwood was the acknowledged British authority in respect of providing wellbeing for people with dementia.  He was instrumental in forming the Bradford Dementia Group, one of the UK’s leading university departments devoted to the development of best practice in dementia care.  This session seeks to explore some of the ideas he proposed in his seminal book ‘Dementia Reconsidered’.  This is one of the key texts recommended in SCW’s strategic Welsh learning and development framework ‘Good Work’.

Course Objectives - Participants will have had an opportunity to look at:

1.       A rights based approach to wellbeing

2.       Introduction to Tom Kitwood’s psychology of wellbeing including

 •         Factors that affect wellbeing

 •         The Kitwood flower of psychological need

3.       Signposting to Bradford Dementia Group’s best practice care planning tools that are available to purchase