Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Adapt assessment and treatment strategies to stages of life
- Anticipate and take account of client sensitivities to ensure client dignity is maintained
- Tailor approaches that take account of different cognitive abilities of clients at different stages of life
- Adjust physical processes to take account of client capabilities and physical body features
- Recognise norms and deviations associated with age and gender
- Obtain consents from others when appropriate
- Respond to unfamiliar presentations
- Recognise situations where presenting cases or aspects of presenting cases fall outside current knowledge base or expertise
- Refer client to other practitioners when case is not appropriate to own scope of practice
- Identify, access and interpret sources of additional information and advice when appropriate to continue with the case
- Enhance own capacity to deal with the case by conducting case specific research
- Integrate findings into client treatment plans and record details
- Extend and expand own knowledge base