If professionals have negative thoughts about their service users, it will affect the way they treat and care for them, This will not promote an anti discriminatory practice because the service user is being treated differently due to the service providers own opinions and views. Past events can affect anti-discriminatory practice being put in place; an example of this could be that if the service provider has experienced something awful in their caring situation of a certain ethnic background, there are chances of the service provider failing to provide an active and caring service to the user. Health and well being can also influence the way the service providers provide care for the service users. An example of this could be that if the patient is gay and the service provider puts their health documents at the bottom because they don’t want to treat a gay person. This will not promote an anti discriminatory practice because the service provider is failing to treat the person because of their sexual orientation.
In our society there are large groups of people living with the difficulties of racism, profound fear, hopelessness and loss. This makes the area of intercultural counselling increasingly important and relevant. Other mainstream counselling approaches do not give us the opportunity to explore the impact that race and identity has on the counselling process. It also provides us with a way of investigating the concerns that we all share regardless of our heritage or background. In our multicultural society we need to learn to live with difference in a constructive way.
As a result, this rule is not well enough to be implemented in our personal life as well as professional life. To eliminate the cons of the golden rule, “The Platinum Rule” is born. The Platinum Rule is all about treating people the way they like to be treated. Under this rule, personal standards should not have impact to treat others and one has to base on another’s desire to treat them. A person has to use his knowledge and skill and figures out the people around him.
Had the subjects been informed of the study’s purpose, the question of ethics would be less ambiguous. Some would argue that the special conditions needed for this study required the lack of informed consent. Males in the study would perhaps behave differently had they known what the goal of the study was, or that they were even partaking in a study. Although this is a valid point, debriefing and the request of consent after the experiment were attainable and would have put together a more ethical and less questionable study. Various approaches could have been used to compensate for the lack of personal privacy and informed consent but were not.
Internalization is the process through which a person takes in part of the culture or societal norms and makes it a part of his or her identity. It may involve taking in positive or negative aspects of one’s culture and could sometimes involve identifying with the oppressing power. Ho (1995) stated that it is only through understanding of client’s internalized culture that a social worker can begin to understand diversity issues for a client. According to him, the concept of internalized culture, refers to what client believes and identifies with that may be taken from a number of cultural systems such as ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, class. However, it is also crucial not to make assumptions that individuals are representations of their cultures.
Discrimination regarding cognitive ability could occur at the care setting. This is discriminating on the grounds of, a learning difficulty or a person’s social class or education. The discriminatory practise which could occur at the setting is the infringement of rights; this could be not respecting individuals rights such as not allowing someone to practice their culture. This could occur at the setting as many if the individuals have different cultures and ethnicities. Therefore it is important that the care workers allow each individual to practice their own culture freely.
Our society has different expectations about the standards of behaviours that is expected from professionals, family members and strangers, but these are rarely made clear. However, when they are made clear, they tend to be based on a general understanding of what a ‘reasonable person’ would do in a similar situation. According to the world dictionary, it suggests that “Abuse is about the misuse of the power and control that one person has over another. In determining whether or not abuse has taken place, it is important to remember that intent is not the issue”. However, the definition of abuse is based not on whether the individual intended harm to be caused, and the impact of the harm (or risk) on the individual.
For example information should not be given out to anyone who isn’t involved. Staff must get the consent of anyone’s information they need to share. Staff needs to make sure that the correct information is accessible for those who need to know, it is important. Legal requirements and codes of practice are also beneficial as they help keep a balanced relationship between the workers and service users. They also may obstruct the amount of support given to a specific client and this could be due to health and safety or not meeting the legal
Applying Ethics In the human service field one might find them self in situations that contradict the ideals or ethics in which the individual believes in. This can happen in many different formats and situations depending on where one’s values lye. For example, maybe a human service professional has a client that has a drug problem, and he or she needs to be referred for rehabilitation services to get clean. During the process of assessment, the client continuously makes racial remarks towards a certain ethnicity. As a human service professional one would take into consideration that every individual is entitled to their own opinion, but it still does not settle well to know that such an individual is receiving help when there are so
It happens and I believe that people should not be judged based on their qualities. Some people might think we live in a society where stereotyping is deceased to a minimum, as far as addressing them goes. However, gender stereotypes, racism stereotypes, and sometimes discrimination stereotypes towards people have been acknowledged, they have tried to be dealt with and tried to be handled but it’s inevitable. Sure some might think we live in a society where this doesn’t happen, but the fact of the matter is its not, and it needs to be realized. Some think you can accept people regardless of race or gender.