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Product

Direct Support Professionalism

Center:

MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2006

Contact Information:

Bill Tapp
[email protected]
865-934-0221

Product Description:

Direct Support Professionalism is a course offered within the College of Direct Support. This course introduces the learner to the importance and benefits of a professional orientation to the DSP role and to the history and status of the professionalism movement. The national movement to professionalize direct support is described. The reasons why professionalism is important, progress that has been made in creating a profession, and how DSPs can become part of the professionalism movement are included. An ethical code for DSPs is reviewed along with ways of applying these ethical guidelines in daily practice

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Product/Publication Type(s):

Electronic Products, Academic Course Development

Target Audience:

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

Alternative Format:

Captioned, Visual Format or Large Print, Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

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N/A

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