Chapter 2 Flashcards
Acculturaltion
Process of social and psychological exchanges with encounters between persons of different cultures, resulting in changes in either group
Culture and linguistic competence
A set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system among professionals that enables work in cross-cultural situations
Cultural Care
Professional health care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate, and competent
Culture
The nonphysical attributes of a person - the thoughts, communications, actions, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups
Ethnicity
A social groups within the social systems that claims to proccess variable traits such as a common geographic origin, migratory status, and religion
Ethnocentrism
Tendency to view your own way of life as the most desirable, acceptable, or best and to act superior to another culture’s way of life
Folk Healer
Lay healer in the person’s culture apart from the biomedical or scientific health care system
Health or Illness
The balance or imbalance of the person, both within one’s being and the outside world
Religion
An organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, as well as attendance at regular service
Spirituality
A broad term focused on a connection to something larger that oneself and a belief in transcendence
Values
A desirable or undesirable state of affairs and a universal feature of all cultures
