Explain the difficulties that may be encountered when implementing anti discriminatory practice
M2 – explain the difficulties that may be encountered when implementing anti – discriminatory practice
For this part of the assignment I will be explaining the difficulties that are associated when enforcing discriminatory practice. They are many different key points but the ones that I will be considering are:
- Reluctance to change
- Intolerance
- Lack of cultural awareness
- Past events
- Team work problems
- Environmental influences
- Awareness of requirements
What is anti discriminatory practice?
Anti – discriminatory is treating all of the clients and service users equally regardless of age, gender, religion or sexuality. It also includes respecting the rights of the clients and appreciating their needs. It could also include providing personalised care.
Reluctance to change – This is about, how care workers may have been practicing for many years and so what they learnt twenty they may still practice now which may not be acceptable. Attitudes and beliefs towards certain people may still be used for example the thought that all people from Ireland are travellers if a care worker thought of this prejudice when he/she started training they may still think this now and as a result of is not treat the clients equally. A real life example of reluctance to change could be in a hospital, if a senior nurse treat the clients differently because they have mental health problems and calls the retards. This may have been acceptable when she was training, but because she has done it for so long she may find it acceptable when it is not.