Chapters 7-10 Flashcards
Co-cultures:
Unique patterns of behaviors and values that distinguish people from “mainstream” culture.
Understanding cultural patterns:
- Defines its sense of self
- Dresses and values appearance
- Embraces specific beliefs and attitudes
- Relates to family and significant others
- Plays and makes use of leisure time
- Learns and uses knowledge
- Communicates and uses language
- Embraces certain values and morals
- Uses time and space
- Eats and uses food in its customs
- Works and applies itself
Discrimination:
An active BEHAVIOR that negatively affects individuals within a specified cultural or ethnic group.
Stereotypes, prejudice, and racism are..
ATTITUDES held by people.
Stereotypes:
Rigidly held beliefs about a group of people; assume ALL share characteristics.
Prejudice:
Positive or negative bias about a group as a whole.
Racism:
Specific belief that one race is superior to another.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.F.U.L.
- Religious/spiritual identity
- Economic class background
- Sexual identity
- Psychological development
- Ethnic/racial identity
- Chronological disposition
- Trauma and other threats to their personal well-being
- Family history
- Unique physical characteristics
- Language and location of residence
Reasons we work:
Economic, social, psychological
How do you look for work?
- Internet
- Print materials: newspaper, ads
- People: network
- Computer-assisted career guidance
- Assessment instruments: interests, aptitude, personality
Census data:
Population estimates
Career development choices:
- Conduct assessments
- Offer resources
- Raise awareness
- Facilitate decision making
- Examine choices
- Facilitate choice making
- Follow up
- Repeat the process until satisfied
How do you become a HS worker?
- Get the job
- Complete on the job training
- Complete formal education (certificates, AA, BA)
Implications: increase in effective services, gainfully employed, increase in salary.
Advantages of being a Generalist:
- Test the field with less investment of time and money
- Begin a career while being paid
- Need for providers is growing, so jobs exist
Flow:
Experience between no work and a lot of work. Flow marks immersion into one’s work.
Satisfaction and Engagement:
- What is expected of her.
- Feels the need to work.
- Feels fulfilled at work.
- Gets opportunities to do the best.
- Thinks herself to be part of something significant.
- Has opportunities to learn and develop.
Task leadership:
Involves setting standards, organizing work, and focusing on goals.
Social leadership:
Involves mediating conflicts and building high achieving teams.
Effective leaders:
- Discern their employees’ talents
- Adjust their work roles to talents
- Develop talents to strengths
- Set challenging goals
- Provide feedback
Define culture:
Common values, norms of behaviors, symbols, language, and common life patterns among people.
Stress is:
An adaptive response to a situation. Must tend to physical, emotional, behavior, interpersonal and attitudinal self.
Factors contributing to stress:
Personality type
Explanatory style
Perceived Control
Events and coping
Type A personality:
A term used for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people.
Type B personality:
Easygoing, relaxed people.
Explanatory style:
People with optimistic explanatory style tend to have more control over stressors, cope better with stressful events, have better moods and have a stronger immune system.
Perceived control:
Absence of control over stressors is a predictor of health problems.
Two coping strategies for alleviating stress:
Problem-focused coping
Emotion-focused coping
Problem-focused coping:
Reducing stress by changing events that cause stress or by changing how we react to stress.
Emotion-focused coping:
When we cannot change a stressful situation, and respond by attending to our own emotional needs.
Carl Whitaker healthy points:
- Place yourself as a priority.
- Learn how to love.
- Listen to your impulses.
- Listen to your inner voice and to others.
- Enjoy your significant others more than anyone else.
- Fracture role structures and challenge authority.
- Challenge yourself- you’re not always right.
- Build long term relationships to feel safe and grounded to express your feelings.
- Act whimsical (no predictable pattern).
- Accept that you must continue to grow and change until death.
