Cultural Competence Flashcards
___________________ is the learned beliefs and behaviors or the socially inherited characteristics that are common among all members of a racial, social, ethnic or religious group.
Culture
___________________ is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable a system or professional to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. It is generally considered to be a continuum.
Cultural competence
___________________ is developing sensitivity and understanding of another ethnic group. It usually involves internal changes in terms of attitudes and values.
Cultural awareness
___________________ is awareness that cultural differences as well as similarities exist, without assigning values, such as better or worse, right or wrong, to those cultural difference.
Cultural sensitivity
___________________ is familiarization with selected cultural characteristics, history, values, belief systems, and behaviors of the members of another ethnic group.
Cultural knowledge
___________________ is when providers and systems seek to do more than provide unbiased care as they value the positive role culture can play in a person’s health and well-being.
Cultural proficiency
___________________ is ongoing self-reflection that demonstrates a lifelong commitment to continuously evaluate one’s own behaviors beliefs and identities and determine how potential biases and assumptions may surface when collaborating with an individual of a different background.
Cultural humility
___________________ is the attitudes or stereotypes that unconsciously alter our perceptions or understanding of our experiences, that in turn affects behavior, interactions and decision-making. They are unrecognized by the individual or are outside of their awareness.
Implicit/unconscious bias
When unconscious bias is present, the human brain quickly categorizes any encounters with people, animals or situations through ___________________.
“Cognitive shortcuts”
What are the dimensions of culture related to health?
Health/illness beliefs Decision-making style Healing traditions Locus of control Communication Immigration status
_______________________ refers to the way a cultural group understands behavioral or emotional problems.
Cultural concepts of distress
What are the three main types of cultural concepts of distress?
Culture-bound syndromes
Cultural idioms
Cultural explanations
___________________ are specific behaviors related to a person’s culture and not linked to a psychiatric disorder. These are a cluster of symptoms that occur in a specific cultural group. They may not be seen as an illness within the culture, but outsiders may recognize it as such.
Culture-bound syndromes
Identify the syndrome in various Latin American cultures that includes symptoms of shouting, crying, attacks, trembling, verbal or physical aggression, dissociative experiences, and feeling out of control in response to a stressful event.
“Ataque de nervios”
___________________ are terms that provide shared ways of experiencing suffering and do not describe a specific disorder. They represent a way of expressing features of distress or a way of talking about suffering that is commonly used among people of a cultural group.
Cultural idioms
Identify the idiom of psychosocial and interpersonal distress among the Zimbabwe that is associated with anxiety, headache, and dizziness.
Kufungisisa “Thinking too much”
___________________ are culturally recognized labels, attributes, or features that explain etiology/cause of symptoms, disease, and distress.
Cultural explanations
dentify the explanation for distress and misfortune among some U.S. Latinos and people in Mexico, Central and South America. It results after a frightening experience that causes the soul to leave the body. The experience causes sickness, unhappiness and trouble with role functioning, as well as somatic symptoms and symptoms associated with major depressive disorder.
Susto “Fright”
