Research On Social Work Practices For Improving Self-care Ability Of Young People With Intellectual Disabilities

" The mentally retarded people’s mental development and intelligence levels are significantly lower than the average person.Due to intellectual defects and obstacles to physical and mental development,people with intellectual disabilities have a significantly lower self-care ability than those in the community.At present,although people with intellectual disabilities have received more attention in their social integration,social adaptability,and self-care ability,the rehabilitation services for people with intellectual disabilities who are able to take care of themselves are mainly conducted in institutions,and rehabilitation training is lacking in targeted and missing.The combination of individualized student services and training and training in real life of the society have not received sufficient attention.This study takes the social work practices of the H agency in Kunming City as an example.Through the integration of people with intellectual disabilities,observing in life,communicating with people with intellectual disabilities,interviewing agency staff,and visiting families of people with intellectual disabilities,etc.,data are collected to assess the needs of the institution in serving students’ self-care ability,combined with the students ’ intellectual disabilities,and personal Differences in personal self-care ability,individual differences,according to the physical and psychological characteristics of people with intellectual disabilities,the use of group social work professional skills and methods,the self-care ability of clothing,food,shelter,and other activities in the simple decomposition,targeted to the students The repeated guidance and training,and gradually bring people with intellectual disabilities into social life,to experience,feel life,learn and train in life,enhance the ability of people with intellectual disability living.Under the guidance of the theory of social support,social learning,and empowerment,the author involved people with intellectual disabilities to improve their self-care ability.With the patience and careful guidance of social workers,after repeated training,people with intellectual disabilities have the ability to take care of themselves.Obviously improved.In the service process,social workers need to combine "mental education" with those with intellectual disabilities.At the same time,we must confirm the results of the team members,encourage them in a timely manner,and increase the self-confidence of people with intellectual disabilities The service should be patient,and the content of the service should be made simple and straightforward.Through the live demonstration and classroom video teaching,etc.,the people with intellectual disabilities should be taught to learn self-care skills,and follow-up services should be followed to promote the mentally handicapped people to learn.Get behavior into habit.Although the improvement of the ability of people with intellectual disabilities to take care of themselves is not an easy task,but after hard work,they will always surprise us.We hope that the mentally handicapped people’s self-care ability or other social work services will become better and better.