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Examples Of Psychological Barriers In Health And Social Care

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Thirdly, psychological barrier is when a person is to scared or worried to access a service. For example, a person is suffering from anxiety and is too scared to go to the hospital for an injection. An example relate to Mrs Jones and the service users could be that Selina Jones is to scared and feels guilty of leaving her child in the care of someone else. This could be overcome by the pre-school reassuring Mrs Jones that everything is okay and by sending Mrs Jones pictures of what he is doing and how he is. In Mrs Jones and Jensons case they have no psychological barrier as Mrs Jones has no worry leaving her child at the pre-school.
Another barrier is cultural barrier which prevents people from accessing a service due to cultural beliefs. …show more content…

Promoting anti-discriminatory practise means to ensure that nobody is treated differently due to their gender, race, sexuality, age and class. This includes freedom from discrimination, the right to be different and alert of assumptions made. This is also to understand prejudgment, stereotyping and labelling and their effects and also the use of language. An example of this in the nursery is that they ensure that a range of ethnic groups are symbolized by having posters and books. Recently, I interviewed a care worker at the Hunny pot day nursery named ‘Katie’, questioning her about how the ensure all the care values are met. An example of this is that they make the children celebrate all different festivals and they do not stereotype, they let the children have a free choice on what activity they want to do. Also they ensure that the staff members at the nursery do no talk negatively to the service users and they ensure that the staff members do not use informal language. To make sure that the children with disability at the nursery do not feel like they are being treated differently they give them all the same opportunities’, but at this moment at the Hunny pot day nursery they do not have any children with a disability. I have observed Jenson and seen that he has been taught to play with different ethnic children and has seen that he enjoys celebrating different festival. In conclusion this area of …show more content…

This means to ensure that data is shared with the customer and that every effort is made to ensure that the client is capable to understand the data. This includes provide obtained information, maintain identity and express and understand needs, fears and wishes. For example, that there was a disabled person in the nursery the staff would draw pictures or show him pictures for that person to understand. Another example is that say if the service user was from a different country and that he spoke a different language, the nursery would have an interpreter or a person who spoke that same language. This is also so that he doesn’t feel left out for being different. I know this by observing the children and seeing that they are comfortable with the staff members. Every day the children have a daily report which tells the parents what they do well and how much food they have eaten or event that they have made friends. They share information to the parents through parents’ evenings or reports, observations and learning journeys. In conclusion, this area of care values is being implemented as all the children communicate with

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