Social Justice Principles in a Life Crisis Context

This document discusses the identification of a life crisis event in a clinical practicum and explores the application of social justice principles, such as equity, access, participation, and rights, in the context of the event. It also examines the literature on these principles and their impact on caring for individuals and their families in a life crisis context.

Task 1: Written Assessment task

Table of Contents
Part 1................................................................................................................................................1
Step 1: Identify a life crisis event you have experienced in a clinical practicum..................1
Step 2: Identify two social justice principles- 1) equity, 2) access, 3) participation, and 4)
rights- that apply to your selected event.................................................................................2
Part 2................................................................................................................................................2
You will now explore the literature for your two chosen social justice principles to further
your understanding of how these principles impact caring in a life crisis context.................2
References........................................................................................................................................6

Part 1
Step 1: Identify a life crisis event you have experienced in a clinical practicum.
1. A precipitating event occurs.
Considering my clinical practicum in general hospital, I have observed that one of patient get
admitted who has been attempted to suicide by jumping in front of the truck. But the individual
get injured severely but rest of ventilator in the critical unit of the hospital. Their family
members face this crisis which is drastic for them and mother of that guy become unstable due to
her son critical condition (Vigen and Agathangelou, 2016). The condition of the victim was very
critical and physicians have trying their best to make him stable. Unfortunately his injuries have
started recovering but his mental state is not completely normal due to pressure of career. His
family is facing financial and emotional crisis from which it is very difficult to overcome with.
2. The person has a perception of the event as threatening or damaging.
The perception of the person is about the event is that it can be extremely life threatening
because his attempt was intentionally for suicide. It includes that critical incident because the
speed of truck is very high and jumping of the individual was instant due to which there is no
chance for truck driver to save the person. However, it is just about the destiny and lick so that
he is safe otherwise the accident happened was deadly which can be assumed by observing the
critical condition of the victim in hospital. Moreover, I have observed the condition and feel that
how can he will be recover because that was my first experience of internship and such kind of
case which is really full with clinical complexities.
3. This perception leads to emotional distress
This kind of condition is responsible for making an individual emotionally weak but the patient
was extremely depressed due to which he attempt to suicide. It includes the condition of his
family as they people get broken by heart and his mother become unstable due to emotional
distress. However, they were afraid of severe injuries and ventilator condition of their loved
which is not easy for them to overcome easily (Romanelli and Hudson, 2017). It involves the
situation when nobody will eat or drink anything but praying for their loving one to become
stable by health.
4. The emotional distress leads to impairment in functioning due to failure of an individual's
usual coping methods that previously prevented the crisis from occurring.
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The emotional distress is itself a problem for which several symptoms can be observed to
develop need of taking medical consultation for their wellbeing. It includes the symptoms like
headaches, rumbling stomach, diarrhoea, constipation and psychological disorders. However, the
people having emotional distress cannot eat anything and not follow their regular routine due to
which coping strategies should be used for suffered people. It includes counselling, family
therapy, social support and medicinal support to helping people to overcome with such emotional
distress.
Step 2: Identify two social justice principles- 1) equity, 2) access, 3) participation, and 4) rights-
that apply to your selected event.
Social justice can defined as to provide equal opportunities and benefits in terms of economic,
political and social rights. It includes number of principles which are required to be considered as
respective authorities like healthcare professionals and legal bodies by using several principles
such as equity, access, participations and basic rights of an individual (Hussain and et. al., 2018).
However, it has been analysed that the principles of access to care services, equity and
participations of society plays an important role for improving health condition of the patient
along with helping his family to overcome with this situation.
Part 2
You will now explore the literature for your two chosen social justice principles to further your
understanding of how these principles impact caring in a life crisis context.
Citation 1:
Coreil, J. ed., 2019. Anthropology and primary health care. Routledge.
Annotation
Social principles justice plays an important role in life crisis in order to deliver more effective as
well as efficient support for betterment of suffered people. It includes the utilise of social
principles including access, equity, rights and participants that must be considered to provide
desired care and support for improving their actual condition to make them comfortable.
Basically, it consist the condition of severely injured person then they should get easy access to
best clinical practices and care facilities to treat their injuries.
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Citation 2:
Russo, F., 2016. What is the CSR’s Focus in Healthcare?. Journal of Business Ethics, 134(2),
pp.323-334.
Annotation
Initially, the principle of access includes to provide greater equality of access to goods and
services. Secondly, it involves the equity to be followed for overcoming unfairness caused by
unequal access to economic resources as well as power. Thirdly, it is required to follow rights for
delivering equal effective legal, industrial and political rights respectively. However, it consist
the principle of participation by providing expanded opportunities for real participation in the
decisions which govern their lives.
Citation 3:
Fourie, C. and Rid, A. eds., 2017. What is enough?: Sufficiency, justice, and health. Oxford
University Press.
Annotation
Considering the given case of attempted to suicide by a boy, it has been analysed that principles
of access is very important to provide equality opportunity of delivering better quality of care
immediately. It includes the immediate care is helpful to avoid the condition of occurring
complications and facilitate to increase rate of recovery. However, the care professionals to
should every best care by using advanced clinical procedures in terms of improving recovering
process for making an individual wellbeing. It is necessary for local care workers to provide
social and emotional support to the family members of patient so that they remain stable and
focus on the way to make sure that proper care is delivered to them or not.
Citation 4:
Abadía‐Barrero, C.E., 2016. Neoliberal justice and the transformation of the moral: The
privatization of the right to health care in Colombia. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 30(1),
pp.62-79.
Annotation
Meanwhile, it is required that effective care is required to be delivered by following codes of
conduct and effective care standards which facilitate to making injuries recovery. It is observed
that many times care professionals have poor management due to which treatment will be
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delayed that facilitate to develop complicated medical condition of an individual. Moreover, the
medical professionals should immediate take action and do not focus they patient is poor or rich
while dealing with them for providing best clinical treatment for their wellbeing.
Citation 5:
Spolander, G., Engelbrecht, L. and Pullen Sansfaçon, A., 2016. Social work and macro-
economic neoliberalism: Beyond the social justice rhetoric. European Journal of Social
Work, 19(5), pp.634-649.
Annotation
On the other hand, the principle of participation is an effective factors that must be considered
by medical practitioners to provide appropriate treatment for welfare of an individual. It includes
the fact that care professionals should involve patient and their family members to make decision
related to treatment process which is more favourable for them to gain better patient outcomes. It
is observed that when patient or their family members were involved in treatment decision
making they feel more comfortable which facilitate to gain cooperation from which is suitable
for medical professionals to conduct clinical activities in appropriate manner.
Citation 6:
McCuaig, L., Enright, E., Rossi, A., Macdonald, D. and Hansen, S., 2016. An eroding social
justice agenda: The case of physical education and health edu-business in schools. Research
quarterly for exercise and sport, 87(2), pp.151-164.
Annotation
Meanwhile, it involves the criterion of making an effective clinical procedures to be considered
for delivering better quality of care. The active participation of patient or their family is
favourable for medical professionals to consider an effective approach of person centres care for
establish efficient care plan to treat condition of the injured person. It includes to make decision
of appropriate medications to treat the psychological condition of patient along with reducing
pain of injuries to improve their overall body condition. Moreover, it involves the use of
participation to facilitate delivery of appropriate care services accordingly.
Citation 7:
Ashcroft, R. and Van Katwyk, T., 2016. An examination of the biomedical paradigm: A view of
social work. Social Work in Public Health, 31(3), pp.140-152.
Annotation
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In addition to this, the principles of equity can be defined as the criterion of considering factor of
equality in order to provide equal treatment and care for welfare of patients. It is necessary for
care professionals to focus on delivery of better care facilities among people because it will
facilitate to reduce risk of occurring complications for them. Basically, it is necessary to focus on
use of advanced technology and clinical procedures for making them capable recover with their
condition. It is important to establish strategies for eliminating the components of discrimination
which facilitate to reduce the delayed services and inappropriate care for improving health
condition of entire population in the country. Meanwhile, it is observed that some of care
professionals discriminate poor people and do not attend them properly which may results into
complexities in their condition.
Citation 8:
Jun, H., 2018. Social justice, multicultural counseling, and practice: Beyond a conventional
approach. Springer.
Annotation
It is required to make an effective policy in general hospitals for enhancing the standards of
medical services to poor people. It will provide support to reduce occurrence of severe epidemics
in poor communities and slum areas if doctors and nurse will put proper efforts for their health
and wellbeing respectively. Moreover, the legal bodies should take strict action so that people
will get equal medical opportunities and benefits of effective treatment procedures to become
wellbeing. It is also required that government should formulate a feedback desk for complaining
about practitioner those who discriminate among poor people which leads to complicated
conditions. It includes to use the provision of strong punishments like penalties and lockup
duration for such care professionals to eliminate discrimination completely from health and
social care sector.
Citation 9:
Pateman, J. and Vincent, J., 2016. Public libraries and social justice. Routledge.
Annotation
The very important principle of social justice that must be consider in given case of attempt to
suicide by the guy which is known as basic rights of an individual. It includes the fact that a
person has right to information about the clinical procedures carried out with them. Meanwhile,
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it is necessary for medical practitioners make informed care by providing proper knowledge
about treatment and diagnosing process for taking their approval for the same. It consist the use
of basic rights of people and follow the principle of providing appropriate medications for an
individual wellbeing. It is necessary to provide correct dosage of medicine, to correct person, at
correct time and correct administration method respectively.
Citation 10:
Raphael, D., Bryant, T. and Rioux, M. eds., 2019. Staying alive: Critical perspectives on health,
illness, and health care. Canadian Scholars.
Annotation
However, there are several rights of patient which should be considered by care practitioners in
which some of them are given here. It includes right to appropriate medical care and humane
treatment, right to informed consent, right to privacy & confidentiality, right to information and
right to selected health care providers & facility. It involves some of other rights such as right to
self determination, right to religious belief, right to medical records, right to leave and right to
refuse participation in medical research. Moreover, these rights should be considered by medical
practitioners to provide effective care to patient along with ensuring correct delivery of facilities
for gaining better outcomes. In context of given case, it is required to follow equity, access and
participation factors for providing social justice to a patient and their family members
respectively.
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References
Books and journals
Hussain, M. and et. al., 2018. Exploration of social sustainability in healthcare supply
chain. Journal of Cleaner Production, 203, pp.977-989.
Romanelli, M. and Hudson, K.D., 2017. Individual and systemic barriers to health care:
Perspectives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults. American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry, 87(6), p.714.
Vigen, A. and Agathangelou, A.M., 2016. Women, Ethics, and Inequality in US Healthcare:" to
Count Among the Living". Springer.
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