Chapter 5: Culture Flashcards
Define Minority status
Subset of people who think of themselves, and are thought of by others, as a differentiated group
Ethnicity
Common heritage and history
Share worldview for thinking
Race
Can be defined biologically, anthropologically, or genetically
What demographic shifts are expected in 2043
U.S. population is projected for the first time to become a majority–minority nation.
•No one group will make up the majority or make-up 51% of the population.
•However, non-Hispanic whites will continue to remain the largest single group.
Differences between western and eastern traditions
Western: Identity found in individuality
•Values
➢ Autonomy
➢ Independence
➢ Self-reliance
•Mind and body separate entities
•Disease has a cause, and treatment is aimed at the cause
•Time is linear
•Success is obtained in preparing for the future
Eastern: Family basis for identity
•Body-mind-spirit one entity
•Time is circular and recurring
•Born into a fate; duty to comply
•Disease caused by fluctuations in opposing forces
What are some traits of Indigenous Culture
Places significance on place of humans in natural world
•Basis of identity is the tribe
•Person is an entity only in relation to others
•Disease—lack of harmony between individual and environment
Name the four ways Culture impacts Mental Health
Enculturation: the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc.
•Deviance from cultural expectations can be defined as illness by other members of the group
•Ethnocentrism: evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture.
•Cultural imposition: A situation where one culture forces their values and beliefs onto another culture or subculture.
What are the Five constructs of Cultural Competence for Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses
1.Cultural awareness
2.Cultural knowledge
3.Cultural encounters
4.Cultural skill
5.Cultural desire
Define enculturation
When a culture’s worldview, beliefs, and practices are transmitted to an individual
Define ethnocentrism
The universal tendency of humans to think that their way of thinking a behaving is the only correct and natural way
Wat traits should an interpreter have to bridge cultural implications of medical care?
Gender, age, and social status
Define somatization
When someone experiences a physical feeling (dizzy, back pain) instead of routine psychological stress symptoms
What phrase describes the following term: “i was as sick as a dog”
Cultural idiom of distress
Difference between cultural explanations and cultural syndromes?
Explanations: Perceived causes of distress
Syndromes: When clusters of symptoms occur in specific groups and become a known
Define pharmacogenetics
How genes affect individual responses to medicines
