Labelling In Health And Social Care

This is a report I am writing as part of my work experience portfolio showing how individuals care needs are successfully met. This will be done by talking about equality, diversity and anti-discrimination.

L.O: Understand concepts of equality, diversity and rights in relation to health and social care

Some health care professional who are not committed to the care value base may treat service users unfairly. For example, a care worker that is not demonstrating the role of empathy may not want to listen or respect the ideals of the service users because the care worker is not in their position and do not see things from service users point of view. It is important for health care professionals to be committed and being honest with themselves in order to make sure that they are providing equal care to their service users. Careful use of language

Equality can be defined as ‘the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities’ Equality is about ‘creating a fairer society, where everyone can participate and has the opportunity to fulfil their potential’ (DoH, 2004). By eliminating prejudice and discrimination, Genus Care can deliver services that are personal, fair and diverse and help create a society that is healthier and happier. Equality is treating everyone equally irrespective of individual or cultural differences. The right to equal opportunities and not treating everyone the same and recognising everyone as individuals

There are also important responsibilities of workers in the health and social care sectors which underpin the support of individual service users to make sure that the individual rights are maintained.

Unit 4222-303 Promote equality and inclusion in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings

Equality and Diversity in Health and Social Care By Jordan Davis Introduction Discriminatory practice Non-discriminatory practice Non-discriminatory practice is the protection and safety of a persons cognitive and physical health and their emotional and social wellbeing. This is done by treating people, with extra care and making sure to include them in activities and events. In one situation, this would be providing equal access to places for wheelchair users. An example of using non-discriminatory practice in a health and social care setting, would be, adapting care to meet the diverse needs of different individuals.

Kroska, A. Harkness, S.K. (2008). Exploring the role of diagnosis in the modified labeling theory of mental illness. Social Psychology Quarterly, 71, 193-208

Approximately eighty percent of food eaten in the United States contains GMOs, but not many people know what they are actually consuming from their food sources (Prah). Genetically modified organism, also known as genetically modified organisms engineered in a lab by scientists that alter the genes of plants and animals. By fixating DNA from other organisms into America’s food sources, they create substances that are detrimental to the health of human beings. In addition to this, these genetically modified organisms are completely foreign to the plants and animals they undergo; their genes can become damaged from inserting the genes of the organisms. This unnatural process can interfere with a metabolic pathway in the plant or animal. In addition, studies have shown that on average forty-four percent of people had the “Round-up Ready” herbicide, glyphosate, which is used on genetically modified crops, found in their bodies (Stonebrook). Both, the genetically modified organisms and the chemicals used on them, cause several problems to occur in humans and other organisms which consume GMOs. These include tumors, damaged immune systems, allergies, and infertility; this is dangerous to the health of humans and to their regular body processes. Americans have the right to know what is going into their bodies and how these man-made GMOs are affecting them. By the government

Thomas J. Scheff has written an interesting theory about labeling a mental illness in his book “Labeling Madness. This book challenged the reliance of misleading labels such as “schizophrenia” and the harmful isolation of many people. This theory was accepted by many sociologists but had very little impact even to those in public. Thomas Scheff sought to challenge how the medical model with what is called a mental illness to something more of a social model.

Psychiatric labels can badly hurt those labeled, says George Vaillant, because they fail to distinguish among health, illness, and immorality (361).

According to the article “Associations of multiple domains of self-esteem with four dimensions of stigma in schizophrenia”, the researchers discovered that poor self-esteem was related to the amount of stigma that the individual was receiving (PH Lysaker, J Tsai, P Yanos, D Roe, 2008). Michael, who was diagnosed with a version of schizophrenia at age 14, had experienced a lot more stigma and labels put towards schizophrenia. Michael was scared and depressed, he felt as there was “no light at the end of my tunnel”. Since he had very little knowledge about his illness, he was scared that he would “become the person everyone mocked on the estate, the kind that spoke to themselves and shuffled nonchalantly as the days warped from one to the next”(Mick, 2015). When he was in his early twenties he was no longer as scared as he once was when he was a child, however the stigma had gotten to a point where he had to leave his home town. Michael wrote that he “never truly felt accepted or settled in that community once my diagnosis was public knowledge” (Mick, 2015). For Michael, with the help of his nurse he saw that his illness did not define who he was and who his “self” was and instead found his social identity in education. Matthew was diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was

Using sociology, will look more into stigmatization and its meaning as well as how gender may pay a role in it while psychology will look more into labeling and its meaning as well as a person’s self-esteem. Stigma is the negative label that can change a person’s self-concept and social-identity which demonstrates how it effects people’s decision on whether to go seek the help they need. As well as gender, (def). With psychology, we can examine the labelling theory which is people who apply a name to a behaviour. The label can have negative connotation or be applied to a person which related to the people who are afraid to be labelled as mentally ill if they seek counselling. Also will examine their self-esteem of how they see themselves knowing what they will be labelled

Each service user has a right to information regarding their care that does not discriminate against race/ethnic origin, creed, colour, religion, disability/impairments, marital status or sexual orientation.

Clinicians and researchers prior to admitting the mentally suffered people go through the diagnosis process. On the basis of diagnostic results, clinicians label the mentally disorder patients. The diagnostic labeling process help clinicians and researchers to distinguish patient groups by a set of definable boundaries (Garand, Lingler, Conner, & Dew, 2010, para. 6). At the one hand, the