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Principles: Discrimination and Social Care Essay

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Principles in Health & Social Care!

In this part of my assignment I have been asked to explain own role, responsibilities, accountabilities and duties in the context of working with those within and outside the health and social care workplace, I have to evaluate my own contribution to the development and implementation of health and social care organisational policy and to make recommendations to develop my own contributions to meeting good practice requirements.
Stress is defined as the “non specific response of the body to any demand for change”. It was coined by Hans Selye in 1936. A highly subjective phenomenon. There are many signs of having/getting stress; Physical, Psychological, Behavioural and Emotional.
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According to the Race Relations (NI) Order 1997, discrimination is defined as “the unfair treatment of a person based on prejudice and intolerance. It is attitudes, values and prejudices translated into behaviour”. This is basically defined as there is unfair/unequal treatment of individuals or groups throughout the setting. Prejudice is an opinion or judgement formed without considering the relevant facts or arguments. It is an attitude that is rigidly and irrationally maintained even in the face of strong contradictory evidence or in the persistent absence of supportive evidence. Stereotyping is also involved in discriminating against people. Stereotyping is what happens when we simplify out prejudgements about a certain groups of people and we subsequently see all member of that group as having certain negative traits. According to Fitzduff, 1988, “prejudices and stereotyping are mainly concerned with feelings and attitudes. Feelings are nurtured through our childhood, community and society and are often by the time we reach adulthood”.
Thompsons PCS Model is a theory involved with health and social care settings. This helps health and social care workers to understand how inequalities and discrimination feature in the social circumstances of people and in the interaction between service users and health and staff. It has three levels to help health and social care workers. They are Personal (P), Cultural (C) and Society (S). The 3 levels are closely

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