Assessment 1
Throughout our lives we will come across people who will challenge our existing ideas and beliefs on certain topics or people. It is important that as human beings we understand that every person, regardless of their abilities or disabilities should be entitled to access the same things in life. For the purpose of this essay I will be discussing the attitudes I have towards people with disabilities, common attitudes that society has on people with disabilities, how they originated and how partaking in this unit has changed my ideas and beliefs.
As humans, we tend to form an idea of someone and place a value on them based on the attitudes that our friends, family, media or that of our own experiences have taught us. Throughout my life I have been able to form a positive attitude towards people with disabilities due to my own experiences with mental health and having an …show more content…
With physical disabilities I found that they were portrayed in a way to make people pity them or feel sorry for them, again devalued as humans and made incompetent because it is a better ‘read ' if everyone focused purely on a person 's disability rather their abilities. In order to change the societies attitude formations, we need to look at addressing the cognitive, emotional and behavioural aspects. This can be done through awareness campaigns, training and a positive portrayal of people with disabilities in the media. With this combination one 's cognitive dissonance will be more positive and therefore those who turn to origins such as family and friends will also start to gain a positive attitude. I will use myself and my experience as an example; growing up with a family member wheelchair bound was my mother also told me to include Alex in everything we did and she would use positive reinforcement which made me feel good about what I was doing, therefore every time I did something and Alex was present I included him because I wanted my mum
Throughout our lives we will come across people who will challenge our existing ideas and beliefs on certain topics or people. It is important that as human beings we understand that every person, regardless of their abilities or disabilities should be entitled to access the same things in life. For the purpose of this essay I will be discussing the attitudes I have towards people with disabilities, common attitudes that society has on people with disabilities, how they originated and how partaking in this unit has changed my ideas and beliefs.
As humans, we tend to form an idea of someone and place a value on them based on the attitudes that our friends, family, media or that of our own experiences have taught us. Throughout my life I have been able to form a positive attitude towards people with disabilities due to my own experiences with mental health and having an …show more content…
With physical disabilities I found that they were portrayed in a way to make people pity them or feel sorry for them, again devalued as humans and made incompetent because it is a better ‘read ' if everyone focused purely on a person 's disability rather their abilities. In order to change the societies attitude formations, we need to look at addressing the cognitive, emotional and behavioural aspects. This can be done through awareness campaigns, training and a positive portrayal of people with disabilities in the media. With this combination one 's cognitive dissonance will be more positive and therefore those who turn to origins such as family and friends will also start to gain a positive attitude. I will use myself and my experience as an example; growing up with a family member wheelchair bound was my mother also told me to include Alex in everything we did and she would use positive reinforcement which made me feel good about what I was doing, therefore every time I did something and Alex was present I included him because I wanted my mum