SELF-CARE

"Managing your healthcare and living well"

Prepared by:
Jelo V. Chavel and Rene M. Segundo
(BSED-Math-1A)
 Learning Outcome:
At the end of these lesson, you should be able to:

1. Define difficulty in Self-care.

2. Explain how persons or students with difficulty
in self-care learn.
3. Analyzed possible techniques to help person/
student with difficulty in self-care to learn better.
 What is
SELF-CARE?
 SELF-CARE
• It refers to all the things we do to keep our
bodies safe and healthy.
• In health care, self-care is any necessary
human regulatory function which is under
individual control, deliberate and self-
initiated.
• The ability of individuals, families, and
communities to promote health, prevent
disease, maintain health, and to cope with
illness and disability with or without the
support of a health-care provider. - (WHO)
How can you tell if the
child has problem with
self-care skills?
 If a child has self-care difficulties, they might:
 Be unable to food themselves independently.
 Require more help than others of their age to get
dressed or undressed.
 Find it difficult to tolerate wearing certain clothes.
 Struggle to use cutlery.
 Needs adults to open food packaging in their
lunch box.
 Refuse to eat certain foods.
 Be unable to coordinate movements to brush
teeth.
 If a child has self-care difficulties, they might:

 Require extensive help to fall asleep.

 Choose to toilet only at home where there is
adult support.
 Be late to develop independent day time toileting.
 Show limited motivation for independence in
self care, so they wait for adults to do it for them
instead.
 What other problems can
occur when you see difficulties
with self-care skills?
When a child has self-care difficulties, they
might also have difficulties with:
 Following instructions
 Receptive language
 Eating
 Sleeping
 Dressing and undressing
 Social skills
 Gross motor skills
 Organisation
 Learning new tasks
 Executive functioning
 WHAT TO DO?/HOW TO TEACH?
 Enjoy
 Rewards
 Visual Schedule
 Forward Chaining
 Backward Chaining
 Repition
 Shaping
 Grading
 Adaptation
 Adapting the environment
 Adapting the technique
 Adaptive environment
 Select appropriate prompts
 WHAT TO DO?/HOW TO TEACH?
 Establish a routine
 Learning, rather than time is focus
 Professionals
 Expectations
 Integrate
 Responsibility
 Stories
 Consistency
 Observation
 Role play
 Take care of others
 Toilet training
 Do not scold
Any
Question?
SELF-CARE
"Managing your
healthcare and
living well"

Work Cited:

 http://www.family-friendly-fun.com/parenting/
children/self-care-skills.htm

 https://childdevelopment.com.au/areas-of-
concern/self-care/