Concepts of Discriminatory and Anti Discriminatory Practice
Equality, Diversity and Rights
Concepts of discriminatory and anti-discriminatory practice
M1:
There are many different type of discriminatory practice in the health and social care work place, they can be obvious, subtle and even unintentional.
Covert and overt abuse of power is where a superior of any form would discriminate against a person of lower class or of a lower rank. Covert abuse is abuse where the person is not fully aware they are being abused or when the abuser is not carrying out the abuse obviously, an example of covert abuse of power would be if a consultant doctor favours one trainee doctor or nurse over another for unfair reasons and gives one good jobs and another unimportant, boring jobs and tasks. Overt abuse is where the person is very clearly being abused and the person that is doing the abusing is making it very obvious that they are doing so. An example of overt abuse of power would be if a superior does not give a job to a person with a certain protected characteristic such as skin colour, race, religion etc... and gives the job to someone else with exactly the same qualifications solely due to those reasons. These types of abuse can cause many long term, short term, physical, emotional and social problems. For example if someone is overtly abused for a long period of time then they may lose a significant amount of self confidence which could also affect their professional life as confidence is important in carrying out a job effectively.
Another example of discriminatory practice in a health and social care environment would be stereotyping. Stereotyping is where someone judges and makes assumptions about a person due to their beliefs about that entire group of people. An example of Stereotyping would be something such as all police officers just eat donuts and drink coffee or that all mexicans are lazy. In a health and social care workplace environment this can be observed in situations such as someone abusing their
Concepts of discriminatory and anti-discriminatory practice
M1:
There are many different type of discriminatory practice in the health and social care work place, they can be obvious, subtle and even unintentional.
Covert and overt abuse of power is where a superior of any form would discriminate against a person of lower class or of a lower rank. Covert abuse is abuse where the person is not fully aware they are being abused or when the abuser is not carrying out the abuse obviously, an example of covert abuse of power would be if a consultant doctor favours one trainee doctor or nurse over another for unfair reasons and gives one good jobs and another unimportant, boring jobs and tasks. Overt abuse is where the person is very clearly being abused and the person that is doing the abusing is making it very obvious that they are doing so. An example of overt abuse of power would be if a superior does not give a job to a person with a certain protected characteristic such as skin colour, race, religion etc... and gives the job to someone else with exactly the same qualifications solely due to those reasons. These types of abuse can cause many long term, short term, physical, emotional and social problems. For example if someone is overtly abused for a long period of time then they may lose a significant amount of self confidence which could also affect their professional life as confidence is important in carrying out a job effectively.
Another example of discriminatory practice in a health and social care environment would be stereotyping. Stereotyping is where someone judges and makes assumptions about a person due to their beliefs about that entire group of people. An example of Stereotyping would be something such as all police officers just eat donuts and drink coffee or that all mexicans are lazy. In a health and social care workplace environment this can be observed in situations such as someone abusing their