Abstract
Final year medical and social worker student's socio-political & religious backgrounds compared to the general public: The person-in-the-professional
Highlights
The persistence of poor child health outcomes and socio-economic disadvantaged continues in the UK and across the Western world [13]
Social Work has long prided itself on being culturally aware of the people it serves [9,10,11] based upon the core skill of establishing a professional relationship with service users [12,13]
The focus has been upon the client not the person-in- the-professional, that is the individual Social Worker’s own politico-religious values
Summary
The persistence of poor child health outcomes and socio-economic disadvantaged continues in the UK and across the Western world [13]. Whilst there is recognition that ethnic minorities are especially vulnerable [4,5,6,7] and the one pervading category, is to belong to the lower socio-economic class [4,7,8]. This poses the question what must it feel like to belong to a disadvantaged group and can professionals such as physicians, social workers be culturally sensitive enough to understand their serviceusers situation?. The closest we could find were studies of Social Workers’ personal situation in regard to multi-faith religious beliefs [11,19,20]
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