Self Awareness In Health And Social Care Essay

My beliefs surrounding parents who are engaged in the child welfare system have been shaped and changed by my socialisation process and will significantly impact the way I interact with this group in the future. To fully understand what that impact may be I will identify and reflect on my beliefs by exploring my upbringing, consider commentary provided by those close to me and reflect upon these beliefs. I will also identify challenges I may come across in the future and recognise further skills or knowledge that would be beneficial to acquire. As a part of my socialisation process the values and beliefs held by family members and people in my community have strongly influenced me and my personal beliefs. When I was younger, when the topic of child abuse was brought up I would often hear comments such as ‘how could someone do that to their own child’ from family members. These comments dehumanised these parents and due to this I deemed parents who are engaged in the child protection system to be inherently bad people. Another reason as to why I may have held this view is because my father was a policeman and therefore a punitive belief system was reinforced, as opposed to …show more content…
Child abuse is a confronting topic and when working with these parents it may be a challenge to ignore the stigma and comments surrounding them. This factors have influenced me in the past and there is the possibility that they will make me question my current beliefs. One of the foundations for my current views is that parents engaged in the system are struggling and external circumstances are driving them to commit this abuse. I may also encounter people who have no obvious risk factors or explanation as to why they would commit this abuse. My beliefs may then become conflicted and this in turn would create a