Target Group
Cwm Taf Adult Services staff
The workshop is
based on exploring effective ways to communicate with people with dementia and
understanding what the same people might be communicating to us. The overall
aim of the workshop is to provide information that is evidenced based on how we
can help the person with dementia to maintain a sense of identity and be seen
as a person and not an object of care. The concepts of validation and
personhood are central to the trainer’s approach
Objectives
• To highlight the different types of dementia
• To explore psychological explanations for behaviour often seen in people with dementia
• To help participants understand that not all behaviour is a symptom of dementia
• To share effective ways of communicating with people with Dementia based on Naomi Feil’s ‘Validation Breakthrough’
• To explain ‘malignant Social Psychology’ (Tom Kitwood) and how well meaning but misguided approaches to working with people who have dementia is detrimental to their well being.
• To explore why some people with dementia get angry
• To highlight the importance and different functions of reminiscence