9/12a Culturally Sensitive Practice Flashcards
Cultural competence
being open and conscious about your surroundings and different cultures that exist around you
Culture
- learned
- dynamic
- primary: fixed
- secondary: fluid
- values
- ritual
- race/ethnicity
Primary aspects of culture
nationality, race, color, age
secondary aspects of culture
socioeconomic status, occupation, education, experiences, marital status, gender, religion
Define value
statement of principle, basis for moral decision making, social principles, goals, or standards held by an individual
Ritual
practices, services, and procedures that structured, shared, relevant, familiar, big or small, and tend to be religious
Race/Ethnicity
Race is NOT genetic, it is a social construct that society uses to define people
Cultural sensitivity
a dynamic, fluid, continuous process whereby an individual system or health care agency finds meaningful and useful health care delivery strategies based on knowledge and competency of other cultures
Provider/patient relationship
needs to have a therapeutic alliance
Cultural Continuum
cultural destructiveness cultural incapacity cultural blindness cultural pre-competence cultural proficiency
example of cultural destructiveness
tuskegee syphillis experiment - african american males in the 1970s were told that they were going to get treatment, but they never got any even when they attended the doc office and the doc said they were
cultural incapacity example
racial profiling
cultural blindness
melting pot after civil rights movement, bad to assume that everyone is the same thing
Cultural awareness
self examination, exploration of biases, exploration of ones own culture, acceptance and respect
cultural knowledge
process of learning about other cultural/ethnic groups
cultural skill
ability to conduct a cultural assessment
cultural encounter
continual engagement in cultural interaction
generalizing vs stereotyping***
generalizing - based on data or previous experience
stereotyping - no attempt to learn whether an individual is outside of a common trend, automatically typecasting a person without any additional facts
cultural desire
natural inclination to engage in the cultural competence process
key components of cultural competence
- valuing diversity
- capacity of self-assessment
- raising awareness of dynamics inherent when cultures interact
- organizational processes to institutionalize cultural knowledge
- striving to develop individual and organizational adaptations to diversity
cultural knowledge subcategories
- individual and nature
- science and tech
- materialism
- individualism
- collectivism
high context vs low context cultural knowledge
high context - relationship oriented, intuitive, deep respect for past, non-verbal>verbal, fewer and tighter relationships, team achievement, tradition over change
low context - task oriented/individualistic, rule-oriented, present/future oriented, verbal communication, many loose relationships, individual achievement, change over tradition
Breakdown of cultural knowledge
W - work ethic D - Decision Process T - Time sense C - Communication R - Relationships M - motivation V - View of Change
High Context Cultures
Asian, African, Arab, Greek
