There have been many attempts at defining mental health or illness, each using different terminology depending on the perspectives. The definition by ‘The World Health Organisation’, reads, ‘Mental health is a state of wellbeing in which the individual realises his or her own abilities, can cope with normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to his or her community’. (Unit 1, p.13). The term ‘mental illness’ might be used to describe a broad range of mental and emotional conditions, and in some definitions the term has been changed to ‘mental disorder’, ‘The Mental Health Act’ being one example of this. (Mental Health Act, 1983).
First, legislation and agency policy and procedure demand that workers work in an anti-discriminatory manner. Secondly, the social care task involves challenging negative stereotypes that exist in relation to minority groups within our society. Thirdly, we cannot work effectively with individuals if we collude with discrimination and stereotypes. It is important to recognise that many individuals will need the support of care organisations due to the effects of prejudice. For example, the Carers of disabled older people may need to seek residential respite placements due to barriers experienced in accessing local facilities.
Running head: Americans with Disability Act Information Americans with Disability Act Information ShaQuinta Moore-Seabrook Dallas Baptist University The Americans with Disability Act is very important to employment law. Under the Americans with Disability Act disability has three meanings. A person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such impairment, or is regarded as having such impairment. In today’s economy this type of act protects employees from their employers. Especially in case an accident occurs.
1.3. Outline the problems of inflexibility and restrictiveness in activities and interests and how these may affect individuals on the autistic spectrum. 2.1. Explain why it is important to recognise that each individual on the autistic spectrum has their own individual abilities, needs, strengths, preferences and interests. 2.2.
Stacey Robinson Unit 3: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in early year’s settings 1.4 Describe potential barriers to implementing equality in early year’s settings What are barriers? Barriers are those things that prevent or make access to a service more difficult for certain groups and individuals. Much as we described discrimination as existing at different levels, barriers can be personal, cultural, institutional and structural. Different kinds of Barriers: Structural barriers: Where circumstances create or result in barriers - for example in access to a 'good education' adequate housing, sufficient income to meet basic needs. And as we have observed, structural barriers are associated with poor life outcomes that can be observed in health and between areas and those associated with poverty.
Barriers to Accessing Care There are many potential barriers that face many people every day. The main barriers that occur are attitudinal, geographical, physical, psychological, financial and cultural &language barriers. These barriers can affect the most vulnerable of people, from the elderly to low income families. Attitudinal Barriers An attitudinal barrier is when people have negative attitudes and views towards others who may have a disability for example. Prejudices and stereotyping can influence attitudinal barriers, for example, a disabled person in a work environment may be acted against by even the most well meaning of their colleagues, as they might feel pity or feel sorry for them, making a disabled person feel put down and inferior, meaning they don’t work up to their full potential and empower them to having full independence.
An individual with a learning disability will have significant impairment of intellectual function/social and adaptive. Stages of learning disability can range from mild, moderate, severe and profound. Give examples of causes of learning disabilities. Various examples and causes of learning
Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society. Disabled people are therefore an oppressed group in society. To understand this it is necessary to grasp the distinction between the physical impairment and the social situation, called ‘disability’, of people with such impairment. Thus we define impairment as lacking all or part of a limb, or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body and disability as the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organisation which takes little or no account of people who have physical impairments and thus excludes them from participation in the mainstream of social activities.” (Oliver, 1996, 22). This model therefore contains several key elements.
Building on this work, others (notably Marshall, 2004) have advocated that dementia should be regarded as a disability and framed within a social model. The social model, as developed in relation to disability, understands disability not as an intrinsic characteristic of the individual, but as an outcome produced by social processes of exclusion. Thus, disability is not something that exists purely at the level of individual psychology, but is a condition created by a combination of social and material factors including income and financial support, employment, housing, transport and the built environment (Barnes et al., 1999). From the perspective of the social model, people with dementia may have an impairment (perhaps of cognitive function) but their disability results from the way they are treated by, or excluded from, society. For people with dementia, this model carries important implications, for example: ● the condition is not the ‘fault’ of the individual ● the focus is on the skills and capacities the person retains rather than
SSOP33 SSOP33.1] Understand the impact of multiple conditions and/or disabilities on individuals 1.1 Describe possible multiple conditions and/or disabilities that individuals may have. Individuals may have multiple conditions/disabilities such as physical and mental health problems, learning difficulties and sensory loss. Extra support may be required for individuals that have multiple conditions. 1.2 Explain how multiple conditions and/or disabilities may have an additional impact on the individual's wellbeing and quality of life. Multiple conditions and disabilities can affect an individual’s emotional and physical wellbeing.