1. A1 Equality and Diversity
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What Are Your Values? Learn how to Identify Values and Beliefs
Mindtools videos
Watch the clip above and listen carefully to the comments made, you will need to make some notes.
Personal values are what you consider to be most important to you. They help you to determine what is meaningful and important to you. They define your character.
Starter activity
Using the following slide pick 10 values that you feel most passionate about.
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Assertiveness Balance Being the best Belonging Boldness Calmness Carefulness Challenge Cheerfulness Clear-mindedness Commitment Community Compassion Competitiveness Consistency Contentment Continuous Improvement Contribution Control Cooperation Correctness Courtesy Creativity Curiosity
Decisiveness Democraticness Dependability Determination Devoutness Diligence Discipline Discretion Diversity Dynamism Economy Effectiveness Efficiency Elegance Empathy Enjoyment Enthusiasm Equality
Excellence Excitement Expertise Exploration Expressiveness Fairness Faith
Family-orientedness Fidelity Fitness Fluency Focus Freedom Fun Generosity Goodness Grace Growth Happiness Hard Work Health Helping Society Holiness Honesty Honor Humility Independence Ingenuity Inner Harmony
Inquisitiveness Insightfulness Intelligence
Intellectual Status Intuition Joy Justice Leadership Legacy Love Loyalty Making a difference Mastery Merit Obedience Openness Order Originality Patriotism
Perfection Piety Positivity Practicality Preparedness Professionalism Prudence Quality-orientation Reliability Resourcefulness
Restraint Results-oriented Rigor Security Self-actualization Self-control Selflessness Self-reliance Sensitivity Serenity Service Shrewdness Simplicity Soundness Speed Spontaneity Stability Strategic Strength Structure Success Support Teamwork
Temperance Thankfulness Thoroughness Thoughtfulness Timeliness Tolerance Traditionalism Trustworthiness Truth-seeking Understanding Uniqueness Unity Usefulness Vision Vitality
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Now that you have picked your values are there any that you feel may change over time and if so why?
What happens if your values are challenged? Are there any that you think may be challenged as you get older?
Brittany's choice: 29-year-old reignites debate about aid in dying
Watch the clip. We know that doctors are ultimately there to keep you alive. If you were the doctor in this situation and you were told to give Brittany the medication to kill her, how would it affect your values?
Dementia : End of life care
Northtraininguk
Make notes on the clip above.
What are your views on this topic. Is this the way you would wish to care for people?
The clip is a little upsetting and it is about Cancer. Please check that it is suitable for the students you have.
Fred is 93 years old. He has had dementia since he was 70. He is in a care home that specialises in cases of dementia. Fred's condition has deteriorated quickly. He was a fit and active man. He is now 2 stone in weight, in a bed which is almost like a cot. He is fed through drips. He knows nothing and can no longer communicate with others. He has been in this condition now for 10 years. When he has any type of infection he is given medication through an intravenous line. His daughter comes to visit him but he has no idea that she is there. She would like the care home to stop giving him medication when he is ill, to allow him to die. They can not do this, even though he has no quality of life. Discuss this scenario as a class. Should he be kept alive or should he be allowed to die? Does your view affect your values?
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5. Equality Discrimination Diversity
A1 Promoting equality, diversity and preventing discrimination
The links within the circles are definitions or information that you should read after watching the video clips.
Definition of equality, diversity and discrimination.
Watch all of the clips and make notes. In pairs come up with a definition for equality, diversity and discrimination.
Equality
Discrimination
Diversity
Crash course discrimination. You may want your students to watch this as there are examples of discrimination in the workplace that they might be able to link to health care. interesting clip on equality that you may wish to use. I suggest you watch it first.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion by BVS Training
Equality and Diversity
Derbyshire Community Health Services
Types of Discrimination
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion by What you need to know
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Definition of equality, diversity and discrimination.
Equality involves
Equality does not involve
Treating every person as an individual
Treating every person the same
Treating every person fairly
Treating some people unequally
Supporting every person’s rights
Not respecting every person’s rights
Providing every person with access to the same life opportunities as everyone else
Denying some people access to the same life opportunities as everyone else
Equality means treating every person fairly and valuing every person as an individual.
It means supporting people’s rights and ensuring every person has equal rights and opportunities.
Differences that may make people unique:
Age
Religion
Personality
Physical characteristics
Sexual orientation
Abilities
The purpose of the video is to show some of the things that make use unique. You could also mention about not making judgements, because as a professional we can not and should not make judgements about others.
Diversity involves recognising that every person is unique and different.
In what ways are you unique?
TV 2 | All That We Share
TV2Danmark
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Discrimination is when someone is treated unfairly or less favourably compared to others.
Discrimination can occur when an individual or group treats another individual or group worse than they would others because of their unique differences.
Discrimination could occur on the basis of an individual’s race, culture, disability or social class.
What do we mean by:
Race
Culture
Disability
Social Class?
As we have seen discrimination can be either direct or indirect. Look at the following comments or situations. Are they direct or indirect discrimination?
Max is autistic. He has been denied support to move to independent living because of his condition. This is discrimination as he is being prevented from living his life how he wants to and being denied opportunities to learn and develop new living skills.
Could use this as a debate, especially the comments from Piers Morgan.
Lucy has just had a job interview. She is told that she did not get the job because she is female.
Piers Morgan Clashes With Guest Over Dress Code Sexism | Good Morning Britain
What is your opinion??
A job has been advertised by a company which states that men should be ‘clean shaven’.
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Importance of preventing discrimination.
Initiatives aimed at preventing discrimination in care, e.g. the use of advocacy services.
Advocacy means getting support from another person in order to help an individual express their views and wishes, and ensure their voice is heard.
Research the following advocacy services. What do they do?
SEAP (Support, Empower, Advocate, Promote)
Mencap
Empower Me
British Institute of Learning Disabilities
Read the information from the link above and write your own revision notes.
There are also support services such as:
Mind
Age UK
Headway
What do these services do?
Why are these important services?
Advocates are:
Independent
Able to help individuals understand their rights
Able to help individuals express their views
Able to help individuals get information
Able to help individuals with getting involved with decisions about their lives
Able to help individuals explore different options.
You could split this up into small groups or paired work. They could research this and explain the similarities between each service. This should then lead into a discussion based on the questions above.
Why is it important to prevent discrimination?
Create a class list of reasons
Why is it important to promote a persons equality and diversity? How can health care professions do this?
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Importance of preventing discrimination.
Initiatives aimed at preventing discrimination in care, e.g. the use of advocacy services.
Why is it important to promote a persons equality and diversity? How can health care professions do this? What ideas can you think of?
Take into consideration their feelings and preferences, for example using their preferred name, discussing their current care needs
Make them feel valued by speaking to them in a polite way that is not demeaning.
Ensure that they have a right to privacy such as closing the door whilst they get dressed or closing the curtains.
Promote independence, such as allowing someone to make their own cup of tea.
Allow them to make their own decisions where possible, such as what they want to eat.
Support their faith, beliefs and preferences. This could be a person who would prefer a female doctor to a male one, someone who can’t eat certain foods due to their beliefs or whishes' to dress a certain way. All of these should be supported.
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Importance of preventing discrimination.
Initiatives aimed at preventing discrimination in care, e.g. the use of advocacy services.
Promote equality
Support diversity
Respect the right of individuals: privacy, dignity, independence
Treat individuals as unique
Work in inclusive ways (provide individuals with equal opportunities so that they are included)
Understanding and valuing individuals differences (give individual choices such as what to eat/wear)
Being impartial, not allowing your own beliefs and values to influence the care and support you provide
Taking into account individuals differences (consider special dietary requirements, provide opportunities for individuals to share their beliefs)
Not engaging in discriminatory practices by challenging and reporting these
Supporting empowerment of individuals so that they can make decisions about their care and access services
Dignity in care: Choice & Control
Watch the clip and see how professionals promote equality and diversity. Make notes
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11. Two individuals with different needs
Look at the following information and then use these to write about the information needed on the next two slides. Use all of your notes so far!
Two individuals with different needs
Lucy first visited her GP 5 years ago due to feeling very low and was diagnosed as being depressed. She was facing a number of challenges in her life including a recent divorce and she also was the main carer for her elderly mother. She had turned to alcohol as a coping mechanism. She decided to attend her local day centre to help her to mix with others and hopefully drink less alcohol. Lucy had experienced some discrimination as she wanted to join a pottery class but some members of the group didn’t want her there. She had received some support from her mental health nurse.
Billy was suffering from depression. He was suicidal. He had been out of work for a long time and he was isolated. Due to depression he had started to eat more and more causing him to become overweight. This affected his health and also his state of mind further. He had isolated himself to the point that he didn’t cope with everyday things such as shopping and paying bills. He was getting into more and more debt. He was referred to a day centre and offered some help. He joined an exercise class and was given help from the centre to manage his budget. He is very trusting and so this could lead to safeguarding issues.
As well as these case studies you could give students the blue box checklist on slide 12 to refer to so that they keep track on what they have to show rather than waffle. You could use other case studies from the exam board (old ones) if you have them.
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12. What am I being asked to do?
Learning Aim A P1
Explain why it is important to promote equality and diversity for individuals with different needs.
EXPLAIN
Clarify a topic by giving a detailed account as to how and why it occurs, or what is meant by the use of this term in a particular context. Your writing should have clarity so that complex procedures or sequences of events can be understood, defining key terms where appropriate, and providing proof with relevant research.
Brainstorm as a pair and then as class. Students could complete this as a homework task.
What am I being asked to do?
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13. What am I being asked to do?
Learning Aim A M1
Analyse the impact of preventing discrimination for individuals with different needs.
Analyse
Break an issue into its separate parts. Look in depth at each part using supporting arguments and evidence for and against as well as how these interrelate (connect) to one another.
What am I being asked to do?
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14. Are you able to comfortably explain: What discrimination is?
Give examples of discrimination?
Link the discrimination to individuals within a health/care setting?
Suggests ways in which discrimination can be overcome again giving examples that link to individuals.
Explain what equality means.
Give examples of equality.
Explain what diversity means.
Give examples of diversity
Give examples of initiatives that are used to prevent discrimination (link to individuals)
Explain what an advocate is.
Link advocates to individuals.
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