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Supporting Emotional Safety in Dementia: Key Frameworks and Practical Examples

Explore the emotional impact of dementia diagnosis, concepts of emotional safety, and practical frameworks to promote it. Learn why addressing stigma is crucial and how to create a safe emotional environment. Discover the importance of person-centered care and human rights-based approaches in dementia support.

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Supporting Emotional Safety in Dementia: Key Frameworks and Practical Examples

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  1. Supporting Emotional Safety in Dementia Dr Sarah Butchard Clinical Psychologist Mersey Care NHS Trust/ BPS Faculty for Psychology of Older People

  2. Outline • Emotional Impact of receiving a diagnosis • What is emotional safety? • Frameworks to support emotional safety • Practical examples • Future directions

  3. Perception of dementia

  4. Dementia Words

  5. Why is Stigma Important? • External stigma and stereotypes are often internalised impacting on the way a person feels about themselves. • Stigma can lead to the other S words: • Shame • Silence • Secrecy

  6. An Alternative

  7. How to get from A to B

  8. Emotional Safety • Many definitions of emotional safety. • Some common factors: • Involves relationships • Relies on trust • Feeling of being accepted • Able to just be • Allows people to feel able to be open , at ease and to develop.

  9. Why Emotional Safety? • Dementia services have traditionally focused on decline. • Encouraging emotional safety will be looking at people’s strengths and abilities.

  10. BioPsychoSocial Model Social Psychology Biology How I react How others react

  11. Kitwood’s Emotional Needs

  12. A Human Rights Based Approach

  13. Key factors • Maintaining personhood is the central aim of care provision • Key role of the carer is to reflect people’s humanity and social value • Promote independence • Knowledge of the person • Biographical and life story work • Partnership working • Subjective experience

  14. Practical examples

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