In the short story a counselor named Ms. Matsuda said to Noemi, “You’ve had quite a life, Noemi.” This story could be related to many of the people who resides in East L.A. The author describes situations in this short story that are very common for women in East L.A. such as: drugs, rape, and gangs. The following essay will explain three feminist views of the short story “Las Chicas Chuecas.” First, one of the main issues from living in East L.A. is the street gangs. Many women who don’t go to school or have jobs often leads them into street gangs. It is more common that street gangs are made of males, but the author takes in the prospective views of a street gang made of females.
They enable us to gain professional development and provide a way to identify good practices. 1.4. Describe how own values, belief systems and experiences may affect working practice? Values, belief systems and experiences may affect my working practise because if I treat people differently or force my views and opinions on to people it can cause conflict. By listening and understanding other people’s values and beliefs I can understand them and their beliefs better and improve communication with them.
Ingraham felt this broken system had been pushing women onto the street and into prostitution. The paper tried to place moral pressure on men, urging them to stay away from prostitutes and refrain from seeking their services. The American Female Moral Reform Society also ran "safe houses" for women who had just moved to New York. These safe houses offered shelter and training for "respectable" employment to women who had just moved to New York. The group was also involved in influencing the New York legislature to pass statutory rape laws.
In the film, a turned-prostitute provides their life story as a former prostitute and how they were able to escape the slavery of sex trafficking. The interviewee discussed how prostitution is seen as a business of female empowerment by society, when actually it is the exact opposite. Prostitution is a pimp (usually male) operated industry, where women are the
Counselling/ counselling ideas may help to cope with the challenges of ‘change’ ‘The more I am willing to be myself in all this complexity of life […] the more I am willing to understand and accept the realities in myself and in the other person […]” Rogers (1961). In order to tackle changes in a client’s life, it is important for the counsellor themselves to be self-aware and have an understanding of others’ values, beliefs and attitudes although they may conflict with their own. The counsellor is there to help the client adapt to these changes, helping clients to push out old information and take in new- this however is also an aspect of change which the counsellor has to help the client pursue whilst keeping ethical and professional boundaries. Changes are accompanied by strong emotions, both negative and positive and counselling is able to support the transition from one state to another. When looking at coping with change it is not possible to ignore some of the events which change our development, life events which cause significant change are called transitions (Jeffery, J in Aldridge, S & Rigby, S 2004).
The key to overcoming things like discrimination and prejudice is education. The more we learn about other races and cultures the better we will be able to understand and relate them to our own culture. With this knowledge we will be able to see past the stereotypes and judge each person on their own merit. It is up to us to take actions that will increase this knowledge. We need two types of people in order to make this a reality.
Raya and her friend escape from there traffickers, and are being taken care of bye the U.N Convention. Kathryn sends them to a shelter set up for girls who has been trafficked or victims of sexual slavery. Through Raya’s case Kathryn discovers some scandals about sexual slavery and human trafficking which the U.N are covering up. The U.N has covered it up to protect some security contracts. Now Kathryn are trying to take the cases to a higher level in the U.N Convention, where she finds out that the scandals and the corruption are much bigger than she could imagine.
(This acknowledges to Jan that ken feels that her time is valuable), I would appreciate if we could talk about a problem that I am having. I believe that Shannon is upset with me, and does not want to speak to me. I was wondering if you told Shannon about Katie and me (trying not to be accusatory, so that Jan will not become defensive), 2. How do you perceive Jan’s effort to convince Ken to forgive her? Based on what you have learned in this chapter, suggest two ways she might more effectively seek Ken’s forgiveness.
Unit 204 Outcome 4.1 Explain how the likelihood of abuse may be reduced by; * Working with person centred values A person centred approach is counting and treating everyone with respect. Allowing individuals to make their own choices and decisions, respecting their views will gain their self esteem and will help them recognise their own rights and values which will protect them from being abused. It can also help create relationships between staff and residents so they gain somebody to confide in. * Encouraging active participation This promotes inclusion, making an individual feel some self-worth. Will promote confidence and will also help gain friendships.
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