Practitioner Benfits Limitatiosn Flashcards
(9 cards)
Health education and health promotion specialistsSummary of job role:
Health education and health promotion specialists work to enable an individual to increase control over, and improve, their health, well-being and resilience through prevention and early intervention.The focus is on specific lifestyle behaviours such as substance misuse, smoking,alcohol, healthy eating, sexual health, emotional and mental well-being.
Health education and health promotion specialists Possible benefit:
sharing of specialist expertise/knowledge to benefit individuals.
Health education and health promotion specialists Possible limitation :
Cannot control social andeconomic determinants ofhealth.
Counsellor Summary of job role:
offeringsupport by listening, showing empathy and understanding, and empowering them to reach decisions regarding how they feel about a particularissue and what they want to do to address the issue, to improvetheir health, well-being and resilience if anything.
Counsellor Possible benefit:
Increasing an individual’sself-awareness cansupport the adoption andcontinuation of healthylifestyle behaviours.
Counsellor Possible limitation:
Even when an individualrealises what they shoulddo, this doesn’t guaranteethey will do it.
Child/youth workerSummary of job role:
They support children and young people in a range of settings such as community centres and religious centres.Child/youth workers might work on specific topics such as inequality, respect, self-esteem, healthy lifestyle behaviours and safeguarding to promote health, well-being and resilience.
Child/youth worker Possible benefit:
Can develop knowledge ofan individual and respondto their communicationneeds, which is a strengthduring prevention work.
Child/youth worker Possible limitation:
Other influences canoverride or dominate achild or young person’sinterest in making positivechanges.
