Discriminatory practices are very influential on the people that use health and social care services; I will explain these effects and give examples. (1) Marginalisation is when you feel like you are not liked within a group or in other words you don’t feel like you are a part of a group or society.In health and social care everyone should be treated equal and marginalisation is not allowed. An example of this is a youth worker excluding a homosexual teenager based on his sexuality. (1) Disempowerment is to make someone feel devalued this could happen to either an individual or groups. The victim could be discriminated by a valued group/individual or powerful group/individual.
He found that people were much more likely to relapse when they believed withdrawals were going to be negative. Those who were told to expect no negative withdrawals were less likely to relapse as they had a positive expectation. This provides evidence for the key role expectancy has in relapse. However Tate’s experiment can be criticised. The independent group design could have meant, by chance, the group who were told to expect no negative withdraws, were naturally more determined people, thus increasing their chance of giving up anyway.
For example, side effects of appropriately prescribed and administered chemotherapy are an example of adverse events not caused by error (Hoy, 2006). Medical errors should be disclosed to patients for a number of reasons. Because of their fiduciary relationship with patients, physicians have an ethical responsibility to disclose errors to them. To withhold this information undermines the public trust in medicine and damages the therapeutic relationship between physician and patient. In fact, patients may be caused additional, avoidable harm by failure to disclose because they lack information that would allow them to receive appropriate treatment should further complications arise (Hoy, 2006).
Many disagree with it but I personally believe it should be up to the patient and his/her doctor to decide what is best for their life. I would say it would be considered as ethical egoism. I don’t agree with physician-assisted-suicide being illegal. I understand that someone’s death affects many people but I do believe that at the end it should be the patient’s choice. If I were terminally ill, I would not want to suffer just to suffer.
When conducting social research it is important for sociologists to consider the range of ethical factors that they might face, as failure to do so may affect the participants or even the overall outcome of the sociological data. From the informed consent of participants to covert research, it is essential to examine the most important ethical issues as they play an important part in the construction of research data. An ethical problem that could be encountered by sociologists when conducting research is the issue of informed consent. Informed consent is given when the participants of the study agree to the terms and conditions of the true aim of the study. However, some results may be invalidated by the participants knowing either the true aim of the study or the fact that they are being studied at all.
So a physician’s decision to enter into this agreement with his patient is a difficult one at best. Therefore at this juncture the debate seems to indicate that physician-assisted suicide is driven by emotivism. This statement is made because although there is something to say about the position that it’s wrong, none of it is really based on concrete facts. Society surmises that there will be abuses of the practice. Because of the state of world today, one would say this is a given.
This topic alone may be an increased concern simply because some healthcare providers view their patients as being naive and balance bill them due to the patient not fully understanding the claims process or revenue cycle. This is just an example of why practicing good financial ethics is mandatory within the healthcare industry. Professional associations and health care managers can take a proactive stance to ensure that organizations are ethical in their approach to financial compensation
302). Therapists are careful treating someone with BPD because of the lack of trust that sufferers feel, so it may make it difficult to form a good relationship with their therapist. Some people seek out medications to ease some symptoms or support groups, individual/family therapy, or hospitalization if that person is suicidal or a threat to their self. One of the more well-known treatments is Psychotherapy, or what they call ‘talk’ therapy. This includes Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mentalization- Based, Transference Focused Psychotherapy, Schema-Focused Psychotherapy, General Psychiatric Management, Systems training for Emotional Predictability and Problem
Psychological therapies were first brought about for patients who were having trouble adhering to medication due to the intolerable side effects that the biological therapies bring with them. They therefore needed a therapy that would have been more effective and appropriate for them to sustain their improvement. Two of the most common psychological therapies are Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Behaviorist psychologists see schizophrenia as a maladaptive behavior gained through learning experiences, which behavioral therapies can ‘correct’ and change into adaptive behaviors. The most successful form of behavioral therapy is the use of token economies.
Some treatments have been proven more harmful than good. Medications such as antidepressants and mood stabilizers have just as many side effects as what they can help. Psychotherapy is also an effective way of treating the disorder. This involves four elements of therapy: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)- assists people with bipolar disorder to help them change bad thoughts to good thoughts Family-focused therapy involves the person who has the disorder accompanied by family members. The patient can use this therapy to help open doors of communication with their loved one Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy involves structuring a routine for the person so that everything seems normal Psychoeducation helps the patient by educating them about the illness or disorder and how to cope with everyday life living with the