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Assignment:

You are working in a doctor's office and a local news story is playing in the waiting room. The story describes health disparities between men and women across different racial and class backgrounds. The story spurs conversation among the patients in the waiting room, but it quickly escalates into a debate about who has good and bad health behaviors and why. You overhear a few patients make assumptions about how men are more "aggressive and physical" and how women are more "passive" and therefore less active. You hear others claim that these differences exist because "those" people are lazy and do not care about their health. Still, other patients respond by talking about access to quality healthcare.

1. explain what "stereotype" means in own way.

2. Explain one consequence of gender stereotyping.

3. Explain one consequence of racial stereotyping.

Imagine that you are a working as an allied health care professional, and one of your patients has just received the diagnosis of a serious illness. As the patient is leaving the office, you overhear a conversation between the patient and her son. The son starts to open the door for his mother, but she lashes out and says, "You treat me like I can't do anything right! Just leave me alone!" She storms out and leaves her son standing in the doorway.

1. Explain how the emotional effects of illness (as described) may have influenced the mother's behavior.

2. As an allied health care provider, explain how you would respond to the mother if she made those comments to you, rather than to her son.

3. Explain how you would respond to the son while keeping in mind his emotional and esteem needs.