People’s attitudes and beliefs towards people with sensory difficulties may impact negatively on individuals as they may assume that they lack understanding; quite often it may be those who are making assumptions who are acting incorrectly in accordance with the impairment; for example, people may use a raised voice when speaking to someone with a visual impairment. There may also be difficulties in people finding employment who have sensory loss if the company does not supply adequate support for people to be able to carry out the duties in the same ways as other employees. The Equality and Disability Discrimination Acts are there to ensure people are not discriminated against in their opportunities to find employment. Despite this, employers may not believe that people with a sensory loss are able to carry out the duties of the role as effectively as others. Factors, societal attitudes and beliefs impact on the service provision for those with sensory difficulties.
Failure of management to cascade information. Failure of technological equipment. Physiological/emotional barriers: Personal difficulties can effect concentration, clients with lack of understanding, or memory loss due to their condition. This could also include poor eyesight or hearing difficulties. Personal problems and worries can lead to lack of concentration, memory loss (dementia).
Outline and evaluate failure to function adequately as a definition of abnormality People with psychological disorders often experience considerable suffering and distress and a general inability to cope with everyday activities. This failure to function is very common among people with psychological disorders. As a result doctors are required to diagnose an individual’s psychological problems based up the life led by the individual and the things that may affect them. When diagnosing a patient doctors often use and refer to various manuals to help identify psychological disorders. One of the most widely used is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (1994).
1.1) Analyse how a range of factors can impact on individuals with sensory loss People with sensory loss get affected by the impact of their sight, hearing or both. This can lead to loneliness or isolation of the individual. Sensory loss can lead to a person feeling frustrated, angry and not valued. Sensory loss can impact your hearing, sight , communication ,touch, self-esteem, confidence and even down to you daily routine or environment. For an individual to suddenly not be able to complete task that they do on a daily basis has an major impact on their living.
This feature can make it difficult for support staff to engage well with individuals, impacting on the level of support received. An example of this is one tenant who is autistic who finds it difficult to speak with people face to face. The tenant prefers to be alone at all times. This makes it very hard to support them as they often will not open their door, instead they will shout through the door that they are ok and do not need any help. This tenant does not get much support due to this which impacts on practice, staff are not able to complete tasks with her, and not able to physically monitor her well being.
Unit 12 2.1explain how individuals experience discrimination due to misinformation The attitudes people have towards those of us with mental health problems mean it is harder for them to work, make friends and in short, live a normal life. -People become isolated -They are excluded from everyday activities -It is harder to get or keep a job -People can be reluctant to seek help, which makes recovery slower and more difficult -Their physical health is affected. This is because society in general has stereotyped views about mental illness and how it affects people. Many people believe that people with mental ill health are violent and dangerous, when in fact they are more at risk of being attacked or harming themselves than harming other people.
Q2. Explain how mental ill health may have an impact on the individual including: a) Psychological and emotional Mental illness can affect the individual in a deep way by affecting the way they feel thinks and feels. They may feel tearful and have feelings of worthlessness. b) Practical and financial Mental health problems may affect finances in many ways: * If the ability to work is affected there may be a sudden or, possibly, dramatic reduction in income. * If they spend time away from home, for example while they are cared for in hospital, it may be difficult to keep up to date with their financial commitments.
The term ‘failure to function adequately’ is a term which describes a person when considered as abnormal if they are unable to cope with the demands of everyday life. They may be unable to perform the behaviours necessary for day-to-day living e.g. self-care, hold down a job, socialising with people. According to Rosenhan & Seligman (1989) they proposed characteristics which they believe define failure to function adequately. Some of these are; suffering, Maladaptiveness (behaviour that interferes with someone’s normal routine.)
24 March 2011 Heat Pacino and Deniro did not just simply follow their roles. Their lives were encompassing of their roles. They would find it difficult to function outside their roles, because it would simply be outside their norm. It would deviate from what they would consider normal on their perspective on the roles they both play in society, internally and externally. The satisfaction from the outcomes of their roles is similar to an addiction that someone may suffer from.
Discrimination is when one is been treated less favourably than others and has most of the times damaging effect. It could make the person to have low self-esteem and reduce their ability to develop and maintain a sense of identity. This could lead that the person will not be able to express them self well and experience anger, humiliation, frustration and a feeling of hopelessness. 1.3 Explain how inclusive practice promotes equality and supports diversity. Inclusive promotes equality as people must be included in all aspects of life and not excluded because of an illness or a disability.