White ethnic, lgbtqia and low-income disadvantaged

 

From what I have read and of what I have learned from scholarly articles and professional literature, is that both the members of the LGBTQ communities as well as low Income disadvantaged families are highly stigmatized people. Both groups feel implicit bias when they must get medical care. Accordingly, negative stereotypes and biases on behalf of therapists prevents these people from attending medical facilities as often as it is needed, and consequently these prejudices  negatively affect the result of treatment, especially when patients become aware of the therapist's biases.

Numerous research prove that both  LGBT individuals as well as the members of  low income families  face not only with health disparities linked to societal stigma, but they also feel a great deficiency of getting psychological  help;  they are highly subjected  to the psychiatric disorders such  substance abuse, alcoholism, and suicide.

As to the White Ethnic, it is known that most of them live not as one solid group, but each group or person lives according to the traditions and culture they were born in (Jewish, Italian, etc.). And unfortunately, some of them, like LGBTQIA and low-income disadvantaged families, also feel prejudices and biases, as, for example, most of Orthodox Jews, as well as regular Jews, who experience internal conflict due to their race.   

When BCBA’s working with LGBTQIA patients, therapists should be especially knowledgeable in the peculiarities of these people, because of the LGBTQIA patients' certainty that most of the people different from their sexual orientation feel deep bias concerning their dissimilarity to others. Working with low income families is another challenge for therapists. In this case, it is a must for the therapist to evaluate his/ her own biases concerning these groups of patients, and modify his/her behavior given these people’s behavior peculiarities which is most likely the result of their socioeconomic level of life.  Particularly important before speaking to a patient, it is always good to ask a client how he/she identifies him/herself prior to making assumptions because the connotation White Ethnic may assume different cultures and traditions.   

I also learned a lot of information from the readings that are research based, and was very much disappointed that nowadays, in the developed country such as the US, still there exist some many biases, in dependence to what culture, gender, or sexual orientation people belong to. The number of low -income families stunned me too, but, I believe, that most of current medical staff and certainly future generations of medical personnel will not differentiate what culture their patients belong to and will provide all of them with adequate and professional services. 

I was also impressed by the level of bias LGBTQIA members must go through and no donut that mainly these biases and prejudices highly influence their way of life, their everyday struggle for their right really deserves respect. The fact that there are so many low- income families in the richest country in the world is really shameful, but here we should admit that this fact is not only the responsibility of the American government; there exist a number of other reasons for this  certainty, But it is true that this or that way, we as health care providers should treat all levels of population equally. And as to the issue that the members of the White Ethnic families do not always identify themselves as “white” is quite understandable. The meaning of being white assumes many differences, not only the skin color that is why many white Ethnic identify themselves strictly to their traditional culture.