Self of the Therapist in Medical Settings by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030392710
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Social Identities and BHP Professional Identity

Beyond the hierarchy of the medical system, another area that has the potential to impact the professional identity of clinicians is the intersectionality of one’s societal standing as it relates to race, gender, sexual orientation, and cultural background. While each context has its own rules for emotion management, each individual is also held to different emotion norms and, thus, the amount of emotional labor we must perform in our jobs varies (Lovell, Lee, & Brotheridge, 2009). A clinician who is a member of a minoritized group often engages in additional emotional management compared to those who are more privileged or closely align with the cultural values and norms. This additional emotional management is often found in managing how they are being perceived by others.

Social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1986; Ten Hoeve, Jansen, & Roodbol, 2014) suggests that the self-concept of an individual or a group is derived from the perceived image of the group by society. Thus, the way individuals view and understand themselves may be influenced by the way society perceives, understands, and accepts an individual’s social location. For the BHP, the ways in which they are perceived, understood, and accepted by patients and other medical team members may have an impact on the development of their professional identity, the way they feel they should present themselves in the medical setting, and how they perform their role.

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