3.1.Define the terms: prejudice, discrimination, stigma, stereotyping

Qualification: NCFE CACHE Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health
Unit: Unit 01: Understand children and young people’s mental health in context
Learning outcome: 3 Understand how society views mental health
Assessment criteria: 3.1. Define the terms: prejudice, discrimination, stigma, stereotyping

• Prejudice = A judgement/opinion of a person without any particular reason.
• Discrimination = A biased opinion and unfair treatment of an individual due to their race, sex, age or disability.
• Stigma = A characteristic that is known by a large majority as a disgrace and something to be shameful of.
• Stereotyping = Judging a person based solely on a certain characteristic or belief they hold and labelling them in a category of a certain group of individual’s who also hold this same characteristic or belief.