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Dementia: understanding stress and distress
This Open Badge is available to anybody working in social services who has used our Dementia: Understanding Stress and Distress eBook. To obtain the badge, you need to provide some evidence of what you have learned and how you used the eBook.
The eBook will help you to understand what we mean by stress and distress, identify the factors which can contribute to people with dementia feeling stressed or/and distressed and improve your skills in working with people who experience this.
You can use this learning towards the Dementia Skilled practice level. Find out more about the Promoting Excellence dementia learning framework.
To earn this badge you will need to:
- work through the Dementia: Understanding Stress and Distress eBook
- tell us about how using the eBook helped develop your knowledge and understanding of the topic
- tell us how you have or intend to apply this knowledge in your day to day practice.
You must hold the Writing evidence for Open Badge applications badge before you can apply for this one.
You will need to provide two written statements, of about 100 words, on how using the app helped develop your learning and how you have or intend to put your learning into practice. You can provide your statements on the badge application form below or provide a link to your own blog/portfolio.
If you want to use a blog or ePortfolio entry as evidence, you might find our guide to preparing and publishing your evidence useful. We will also accept short audio or video statements if you prefer these formats.
Remember, the evidence you provide will be viewable by anyone who you show your badge to. Please don’t include confidential or private information within your statements.
Badge issuer
Scottish Social Services Council
Promoting high standards, raising public confidence and developing a trained and trusted social service workforce in Scotland.
Submit your application
The SSSC Open Badge system relies on trust. We trust that the evidence you provide will be of your own work and based on your own skills and knowledge.
By submitting an application you agree to the following statement:
“In studying and completing the activities for this badge, I confirm that all the work provided as evidence will be my own.”
The SSSC will revoke a badge if the evidence provided is discovered to have been the work of someone else.
Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge