Personal planning for the future

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The Person Centered Planning , more recently, citizen-focused planning, is in the 1990s in the United States and Canada under the term planning person-centered developed method which is used to self-determined life planning primarily by people with disabilities of people in need will or otherwise use. It has meanwhile found its way into the field of social work worldwide.

Theoretical background

The main criticism of traditional institutional assistance planning is that it is based on the disability and deficits instead of the individual people and their possibilities, that it is based on the resources of the facility instead of the capabilities of the individual, that it is primarily for the cost bearer and is usually prepared by professional carers for the people concerned and that they are insufficiently involved in the preparation of the assistance plan.

Personal planning for the future offers an alternative to this traditional approach, in that it endeavors to put the person concerned as an active participant in the center of the decision-making process. It focuses on discovering personal talents , skills and capabilities and using them for your own development . In order to achieve their goals, the person concerned is accompanied in the process of future planning by a group of supporters made up of people from their social environment. Here the focus is on which resources can be activated in the personal living environment.

"The concept of human being on which the concept is based is based on the basic assumption that the person planning each - regardless of impairments - can in principle determine their own life, that they are, even in times of crisis, a person with strengths, skills and interests, and that all people have a right to unhindered participation in social life . "

The process is based on the values ​​and principles of human rights , independence, freedom of choice and the idea of ​​inclusion . The intention is to enable the individual to determine the form of help and support themselves, instead of having to resort to predefined help systems.

Methods

There are a variety of methods of person-centered thinking and personal planning for the future. The focus is not on the individual methods, but on the basic attitude of getting good ideas and a plan for a future worth living in and participation in all areas of life together with creative methods. In addition to the small methods such as working with card sets, worksheets, planning books and the so-called mini-methods of person-centered thinking, there are the more extensive planning methods, which are usually carried out with the help of a circle of friends (circle of supports). The main planning methods include 3 formats:

  • the personal review meeting
  • PATH (Planning Alternative Tomorrows With Hope) and
  • MAP (Making Action Plan)

The task of the support group is to take a look at the social situation of the person concerned with the resources of their personal environment in preparation for a future planning conference. Particularly in those cases in which the people who plan their lives cannot express themselves, the support group provides essential impulses.

MAP is divided into six successive steps (introduced by the greeting, introduction of those present and the method):

  1. The story - three significant stories from the life of the person in focus are told and form the basis for the rest of the story
  2. Dream (s) of the person concerned
  3. Nightmares of the person concerned
  4. the gifts - (positive) characteristics and the specificity of the person concerned, their abilities, talents, strengths and preferences
  5. What does it take - conditions for the realization of dreams
  6. the action plan - in which it is agreed what those present can contribute to the realization of the dreams

PATH is the visualization of the intended visions, objectives and the specification of changes in a concrete process . Finally, a person responsible from the group of supporters is named who, as a so-called agent, keeps an eye on the further course of the process in contact with the supporters and reports back to the person concerned.

A moderator who structures and drives the process forward is also important for a constructive course . In view of the often restricted cognitive abilities and sensory impairments, it is important to ensure continuous visualization of the course and the results, also with the aid of the possibilities offered by supported communication .

The final plan can be made in any conceivable form to which the person concerned has access: as text, as a drawing or as an oral plan recorded on phonogram. The plans created in this way can be changed if the person concerned wants to make changes or a goal has been achieved.

Critical appraisal

The representatives of the personal planning for the future warn against using the procedure in a bureaucratic way. If the process is applied schematically without paying attention to the actual intention, there is a risk that the dreams of the individual are more likely to be adapted to existing offers, the creative , innovative potential would be lost.

More recent research contradicts the critics who accuse personal future planning of having no empirically ascertainable effect. The UK Department of Health's whitepaper stated in December 2007: “People-centered planning has shown that it makes a difference. The world's largest study of person-centered planning has shown how it helps people make improvements in important areas of their lives at no additional cost. ”This is also confirmed by other sources.

distribution

The method was originally developed by US and Canadian researchers , including John O'Brien, Beth Mount, Connie Lyle O'Brien, Jack Pearpoint, Marsha Forest and Michael Smull. In Great Britain, Helen Sanderson is one of the main representatives of the method, in German-speaking countries these are above all Stefan Doose, Andreas Hinz and Ines Boban.

In Great Britain, personal planning for the future became part of official social policy as early as 2001. In Germany , among others, it is recommended in Rhineland-Palatinate as a procedure in connection with the employment in the career planning of young people with disabilities and by the State Welfare Association of Hesse in the preparation of Integrated Participation Planning (ITP). It can also be used as a method of assistance for personal life planning according to § 78 SGB ​​IX.

See also

literature

  • Ines Boban, Andreas Hinz: Citizen-centered future planning in the support group. A key to inclusive life prospects. In: Georg Theunissen, Ernst Wüllenweber (Ed.): Between tradition and innovation. Methods and concepts for action in curative education and assistance for the disabled. Lebenshilfe-Verlag, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88617-211-5 , p. 453-460 .
  • Stefan Doose: "I want my dream!" Think further about personal future planning. New perspectives and methods of person-oriented planning with people with and without disabilities . 11th fundamentally revised and expanded new edition. AG SPAK Verlag, Neu-Ulm 2020, ISBN 978-3-945959-43-5 .
  • Stefan Doose: Participation in the context of aid and future planning processes. Participation in a good life as a goal perspective - disability as a starting point. In: Miriam Düber, Albrecht Rohrmann, Marcus Windisch (eds.): Barrier-free participation. Developments, challenges and solutions on the way to a new culture of participation. Beltz Juventa, Weinheim and Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7799-3289-5 , p. 342-355 .
  • Stefan Doose: Being there - being asked - contributing. Personal future planning in support groups with and for severely and multiply disabled people. In: Wolfgang Lamers (Ed.): Participation of people with severe and multiple disabilities in everyday life, work, culture. ATHENA, Oberhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7455-1000-3 , p. 277-300 .
  • Stefan Doose: Personal future planning. Shaping a good, fitting life in connection. In: Participation . No. 4 , 2019, ISSN  1867-3031 , p. 176-180 . [1]
  • Stefan Doose / Carolin Emrich / Susanne Göbel: Captain Life and his crew. A workbook for personal future planning . Ed .: Network People First Germany e. V. 5th edition. AG SPAK Verlag, Neu-Ulm 2013, ISBN 978-3-940865-61-8 .
  • Carolin Emrich / Petra Gromann / Ulrich Niehoff: Live well. Realizing personal future planning - an instrument . Ed .: Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe for people with mental disabilities eV Lebenshilfe, Marburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-88617-523-9 .
  • Andreas Hinz / Robert Kruschel: Citizen-centered planning processes in support circles. Practical manual for the future . Ed .: Federal Association for the Physically and Multiple Disabled People V. Self-determined life, Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-910095-91-5 .
  • Robert Kruschel / Andreas Hinz (eds.): Future planning as a key element of inclusion. Practice and theory of person-centered planning . Klinkhardt, Heilbrunn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7815-2019-6 .
  • Celine Müller, Carolin Emrich, Sabine Finkbohner: Quality criteria for personal future planning. Ed .: Network Personal Future Planning eV 2019 ( [2] [PDF]).
  • John O'Brien, Jack Pearpoint, Lynda Kahn: The PATH & MAPS Handbook. Person-Centered Ways to Build Community. Inclusion Press, Toronto 2010, ISBN 978-1-895418-91-0 .
  • Literature in the catalog of the German library for personal future planning
  • Literature list of the network for personal future planning eV

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John O'Brien, Conny Lyle O'Brien: A little book about Person Centered Planning. Inclusion Press, Toronto 1999.
  2. ↑ Frank Früchtel, Mischa Straßner, Christian Schwarz Loos (ed.): Relational Social Work. Gathering, networking and cooperative forms of help. Belz Juventa, Weinheim and Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-7799-2356-5 , pp. 159 .
  3. ^ Emrich, Carolin: Personal future planning. Concept and creative methods for individual life (style) planning and / or career planning . 2004, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Stefan Doose: "I want my dream!" Think further about personal future planning. New perspectives and methods of person-centered planning with people with and without disabilities. 11th fundamentally revised and expanded edition. AG SPAK, Neu-Ulm 2020, ISBN 978-3-945959-43-5 .
  5. ↑ Network personal future planning (ed.): Card set personal future planning . AG SPAK Verlag, Neu-Ulm 2014, ISBN 978-3-940865-71-7 .
  6. ↑ Hamburger Arbeitsassistent (Ed.): Talente. An offer to support women with learning difficulties in the process of professional orientation and qualification. Theoretical basics, project description, methods, materials, films, accompanying DVD. Hamburger Arbeitsassistent, Hamburg 2008 ( hamburger-arbeitsassistent.de ).
  7. ↑ Competence cards for potential analysis in migration counseling. (PDF) Bertelsmann Foundation, 2016, accessed on December 12, 2016 .
  8. ^ Stefan Doose, Carolin Emrich, Susanne Göbel: Captain Life and his crew. A planning book for personal future planning. 5th edition. AG SPAK Verlag, Neu-Ulm 2014, ISBN 978-3-940865-61-8 .
  9. ↑ Bettina Lindmeier, Lisa Oermann (ed.): My book of life. What is important to me and others. 1st edition. by Loeper Literaturverlag, Karlsruhe 2014, ISBN 978-3-86059-241-0 .
  10. ↑ Helen Sanderson, Gill Goodwin: Mini-book Person-Centered Thinking . HSA Press, Stockport 2010 ( persoenliche-zukunftsplanung.eu [PDF]).
  11. ^ Helen Sanderson, Ruth Mathiesen: Person Cented Reviews . Ed .: HSA Press. 2003.
  12. ↑ Personal briefing - what is going well, what is not? , at www.inklusion-als-menschenrecht.de, accessed on October 24, 2018
  13. ^ A b John O'Brien, Jack Pearpoint, Lynda Kahn: The MAP and PATH handbook . Inclusion Press, Toronto 2010.
  14. ^ Stefan Doose: Handout PATH. Network for personal future planning, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  15. ^ Stefan Doose: Handout MAPS. Network for personal future planning, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Stefan Doose: Handout support groups. Network for personal future planning, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  17. ^ A b Department of Health: Valuing People Now . Department of Health: London. 2007, accessed November 23, 2016 .
  18. ^ A b Education server Rhineland-Palatinate: Personal future planning (PZP). (PDF) Retrieved November 19, 2016 .
  19. ^ Petra Gromann: Personal future planning (PZP). (PDF) Retrieved November 19, 2016 .
  20. ^ State Welfare Association Hessen: Manual Integrated Participation Plan Hessen (ITP Hessen). (PDF) 2010, accessed on November 19, 2016 .
  21. ^ Stefan Doose: Personal future planning as an assistant for personal life planning (§78 SGB IX). Network for personal future planning, 2017, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  22. ^ Stefan Doose: Personal future planning. Shaping a good, fitting life in connection. In: Participation . No. 4 , 2019, p. 176-180 .