Living Safe: A Self-management program for people with vision impairment

Living Safe is a self-defence self-management program for people with vision loss. The Living Safe manual includes all the materials necessary for a health professional to initiate and facilitate a six-session or two-day intensive course on crime prevention and psychological and physical self-defenc...

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Main Authors: Packer, Tanya, Simpson, C., Drury, Vicki, Sim. S., Pereira, M., Re, M.
Format: Book
Published: Curtin University of Technology 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9538
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author Packer, Tanya
Simpson, C.
Drury, Vicki
Sim. S.
Pereira, M.
Re, M.
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description Living Safe is a self-defence self-management program for people with vision loss. The Living Safe manual includes all the materials necessary for a health professional to initiate and facilitate a six-session or two-day intensive course on crime prevention and psychological and physical self-defence strategies for people with vision loss. Step-by-step instructions for establishing the course and recruiting participants, as well as instructions for conducting an individual pre-screening interview are provided. The program is underpinned by the principles of self-management. The Living Safe program grew out of the seminal work of David, Kollmar, and McCall (1998) who pioneered the first program relating to self-defence and crime prevention for people with vision loss at the Center for the Visually Impaired in Atlanta. Living Safe builds on this work by adding to the content and embedding the principles of self-management into a structured program tailored for people with vision loss. This protocol provides people with the opportunity to learn, practise and choose techniques to protect and defend themselves physically and psychologically from potential dangers in the home, workplace and community. Although the program is adaptable globally it has been written in the context of Australian society.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-95382017-01-30T11:13:15Z Living Safe: A Self-management program for people with vision impairment Packer, Tanya Simpson, C. Drury, Vicki Sim. S. Pereira, M. Re, M. Living Safe is a self-defence self-management program for people with vision loss. The Living Safe manual includes all the materials necessary for a health professional to initiate and facilitate a six-session or two-day intensive course on crime prevention and psychological and physical self-defence strategies for people with vision loss. Step-by-step instructions for establishing the course and recruiting participants, as well as instructions for conducting an individual pre-screening interview are provided. The program is underpinned by the principles of self-management. The Living Safe program grew out of the seminal work of David, Kollmar, and McCall (1998) who pioneered the first program relating to self-defence and crime prevention for people with vision loss at the Center for the Visually Impaired in Atlanta. Living Safe builds on this work by adding to the content and embedding the principles of self-management into a structured program tailored for people with vision loss. This protocol provides people with the opportunity to learn, practise and choose techniques to protect and defend themselves physically and psychologically from potential dangers in the home, workplace and community. Although the program is adaptable globally it has been written in the context of Australian society. 2009 Book http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9538 Curtin University of Technology fulltext
spellingShingle Packer, Tanya
Simpson, C.
Drury, Vicki
Sim. S.
Pereira, M.
Re, M.
Living Safe: A Self-management program for people with vision impairment
title Living Safe: A Self-management program for people with vision impairment
title_full Living Safe: A Self-management program for people with vision impairment
title_fullStr Living Safe: A Self-management program for people with vision impairment
title_full_unstemmed Living Safe: A Self-management program for people with vision impairment
title_short Living Safe: A Self-management program for people with vision impairment
title_sort living safe: a self-management program for people with vision impairment
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9538