Just like every human being I have personal bias because of where I came from This can impact my practice if I do not understand and consider the importance of professional ethics and values These could be found in the Code of Ethics for social workers BASW 2012 I will be using the Guidance on conduct and ethics for students HCPC 2016 some Legislation theory and approach if needed I will be also using the term individual or other groups to refer to people who use social work services The term bias is used by Fiske et al 2010 p 1084 to encompass a range of inter group orientations including beliefs about the traits and characteristics of groups or individuals by virtue of their group membership as well as unfair evaluative affective or behavioural responses to group and their members In addition Fiske 2010 and her team relate these types of bias to stereotypes prejudice and discrimination Keene 2011 pp 1 2 stated that stereotypes prejudice and discrimination are all somewhat similar
