Accredited Direct Support Professional Courses Flashcards
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The NADSP Code of Ethics requires DSPs to maintain 'professional boundaries,' which means:
Answer: Keeping relationships with individuals supportive but not personally exploitative
Professional boundaries protect individuals from exploitation while still allowing warm, respectful, and genuine relationships between DSPs and those they support.
Accredited DSP training related to 'cultural competence' requires DSPs to:
Answer: Recognize and respect how cultural background influences an individual's values and preferences
Cultural competence means DSPs actively learn about and honor the cultural beliefs, practices, and values of the individuals they support.
In an accredited DSP course on employment support, the DSP's primary role when supporting an individual at a job site is to:
Answer: Fade support over time as the individual gains skills and confidence
Supported employment best practices call for DSPs to gradually reduce their presence as an individual becomes more independent and integrated into the workplace.
A DSP working with an individual who uses augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) should:
Answer: Learn the individual's AAC system and allow adequate time for them to communicate
Effective DSP support for AAC users includes learning the device or system and ensuring the individual has full opportunity to communicate at their own pace.
Accredited DSP programs that include 'trauma-informed care' teach staff that challenging behaviors are often:
Answer: Responses to past trauma rather than deliberate attempts to cause problems
Trauma-informed care recognizes that many individuals with disabilities have experienced significant trauma, and behaviors are understood through that lens rather than judged.
Which of the following is a key difference between an 'incident report' and a 'progress note' in accredited DSP documentation training?
Answer: An incident report documents an unexpected or harmful event; a progress note documents routine support and individual progress
Incident reports are triggered by specific unexpected events (falls, injuries, missing persons), while progress notes are regular records of support activities and goal progress.
Accredited DSP curricula teach that 'person-first language' is preferred because it:
Answer: Emphasizes the individual before their disability, reinforcing their personhood
Person-first language (e.g., 'a person with a disability' rather than 'a disabled person') centers the individual's humanity rather than defining them by their condition.