P3- Unit 2 Health and Social Care

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Marginalisation Marginalisation is when you treat people as if they are not part of a group within society. The Journal of Social Work looked into different cases of discrimination that involve marginalisation. Such as, the edition of April 2009 looked at the oppression and marginalisation of older lesbian, gay men, bisexual and transgendered people in the homophobic societies. Also in November 2009 they looked at the cases of marginalisation amongst children with AIDS or HIV. An example of marginalisation within the health and social care sector, is when at a youth club the youth and the youth workers exclude someone from the rest of the group because he/she is bisexual. Within the health and social care sector, no individual should be marginalised because of their background, sexual orientation or health status. Disempowerment This is when individuals or a group of people are being discriminated against by other people or more powerful/confident groups. That person may be willing to back themselves up against these people and they may be successful with that. However, majority of the people are not able to back themselves, so they’ll lose the fight against discrimination. For example, you may have a class mate that cannot speak English properly, when they’re presenting their work and you laugh as a class at her/him because of his/her pronunciation, the person presenting could feel devalued and doesn’t want to present anymore, this is disempowerment. This may lead to that person feeling depressed, stressed, disempowered and devalued which can develop into mental health issues. Low self-esteem and self-identity Discriminating people could lead them to losing their self-worthy or even self-esteem. For example, a service user at a care home that has physical disabilities, may not want to join in with the other service users because the service user thinks

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