The document discusses several key psychological life quality factors including psychological security, social contact, social support, approval, occupation, stimulation, privacy, dignity, choice, autonomy, equitable treatment, and effective communication. These factors relate to an individual's well-being and quality of life. Some examples provided include feeling free from fear or distress, having social interactions, receiving encouragement from others, having meaningful activities to participate in, being able to make independent decisions, and being treated with respect in a care setting.

1. Psychological Life Quality
Factors

2.  Psychological Security:
 Means the absence of fear or distressing
anxiety.
 Not being bullied or feeling threatened.
 Lack of psychological security can be
caused by having a serious illness – may
be afraid of the possible effects of
treatment or not getting well.
 THINK OF YOUR OWN EXAMPLE.

3.  Social Contact
 Means having the chance to be with other people.
 Lack of social contact occurs when people are
isolated or withdraw from society.
 THINK OF THREE EXAMPLES OF WHO COULD
PROVIDE SOCIAL CONTACT IN A CARE
SETTING AND THREE EXAMPLES OF WHEN
THERE MAY BE A LACK OF SOCIAL CONTACT.

4.  You might have thought of visitors in a
hospital ward.
 Other residents and/or staff in a
residential care home
 There may be a lack if a client chooses
to stay in their room all the time in a
care home…..

5.  Social Support
 Means having a familiar and/or trusted
person to act on your behalf.
 Usually from family or friends – parents,
spouse and so on.
 Can be given by professionals, e.g. nurses,
social workers etc……..
 THINK OF WHEN YOU MIGHT NEED
SOCIAL SUPPORT?

6.  You might have thought of going to the
doctor or dentist and being afraid.
Having a parent or friend with you can
provide you with psychological security.
 You might have thought of starting a
new job or college and being anxious.
 There are many examples in care
settings…….

7.  Write a sentence explaining the
difference between social contact and
social support.
 Approval
 Means being shown positive regard or
given praise and encouragement.
 This can lead to an increase in self-esteem
for the person being given approval.

8.  THINK OF SOME EXAMPLES OF
WHEN APPROVAL COULD BE
ESPECIALLY USEFUL IN A CARE
SETTING.

9.  A client who successfully takes more
steps when doing physiotherapy
following an accident or stroke.
 A person with anorexia eating some
food………………

10.  Occupation
 Means having something interesting or
worthwhile to do, such as a job, hobby or
sporting activity.
 Occupation can motivate people to act in
positive ways and give people the belief
that life has a purpose.

11.  Stimulation
 Means the presence of stimuli (events
or activities) that increase a person’s
arousal to a comfortable level, making
life interesting and challenging,
 Without stimulation a person may feel
bored.

12.  WRITE A COUPLE OF SENTENCES
EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN OCCUPATION AND
STIMULATION. Use examples of each.

13.  Privacy
 Means having the opportunity to be
undisturbed or unobserved by others in
situations likely to cause embarrassment.
 THINK OF SOME SITUATIONS IN CARE
WHERE A CLIENT MAY LACK PRIVACY
AND BE EMBARRASSED AS A RESULT.

14.  Having to have nurses to help you into
and out of the bath.
 Not closing the curtains around your
bed when discussing your illness or
doing a wound dressing.
 Not knocking on the door before
entering a client’s room.

15.  The last example is slightly different. In
this case lack of privacy means having
your ‘personal space’ invaded.
 A final meaning of privacy means not
having your belongings or personal
possessions interfered with.

16.  Dignity
 Means being provided by care workers
showing respect to clients and not
demeaning them.
 THINK OF TWO EXAMPLES OF
DEMEANING BEHAVIOUR.

17.  Addressing people in an over familiar
way can be demeaning, e.g. by using
nicknames and/or not asking the client
how they would like to be addressed.
 Giving people orders instead of asking
for their cooperation and compliance

18.  Choice
 Means having or being given the
opportunity to make decisions about your
situation.
 Choice gives people a sense of freedom.
 Choices may include deciding what to eat,
wear, watch on TV.
 More important choices include what
career to choose.

19.  Autonomy
 Means having effective control over your
actions and being free from coercion.
 An example might be a person deciding
not to smoke even though friends try to
persuade them to. This person has
autonomy.
 A person who would like to drink less
alcohol but can’t lacks autonomy.

20.  Choice and autonomy are often
confused. A way to remember the
difference is that choices are usually
often about momentary events like
where to sit or what to order from a
menu whereas autonomy is more about
long-term ability to shape life.

21.  In care settings a person can be given
choice but not autonomy.
 THINK ABOUT THIS LAST
STATEMENT AND EXPLAIN WHY.

22.  Equitable treatment
 Means treating people fairly according to
their needs. Treatment may not be the
seem as for others but is seen as fair,
appropriate and not significantly better or
worse.
 THINK OF AN EXAMPLE WHERE
PEOPLE MAY HAVE SIMILAR NEEDS
THAT MAY BE TREATED SLIGHTLY
DIFFERENTLY.

23.  2 people are waiting for a hip
replacement and have been on the
waiting list the same amount of time.
One person is in more severe pain than
the other and is therefore giving the first
available appointment.

24.  Effective communication
 Means enabling people to access
information they need and to influence
those around them
 Confidentiality
 Means preventing sensitive information
about a client from being made public
unnecessarily.