Culture

Question 0

What is it called when people share beliefs, dominant patterns of behavior, values, & attitudes learned though socialization?

Answer 0

Culture

Question 1

What culture illness beliefs include: natural causes, exposure to cold air & use “folk medicine”, God’s punishment or work of devil or spell

Answer 1

African Americans

Question 2

What culture illness beliefs include: harmony of the body, mind, & spirit are important & where the pt. takes a passive role & fam is expected to care for the pt, but touch is unacceptable?

Answer 2

Asian

Question 3

What is a mark of disgrace or defect where a person w/ a no-fault brain disorder may be punished, labeled, shamed, discriminated against, or disrespected?

Answer 3

Stigma

Question 3

What culture illness beliefs include: health defined as a gift from God, illness may be caused by evil eye, bad luck, stress in fam, germs, wind, drafts, imbalance, in hot/dry & cold/moist & sudden fears?

Answer 3

Arab American

Question 5

What refers to people from common geographical origins who share the same language & religion?

Answer 5

Ethnicity

Question 6

What culture illness beliefs include: Maintaining independence but expect attendance from fam & relatives

Answer 6

African American

Question 6

What culture illness beliefs include: most physical illnesses thought to be caused by imbalance of yin & yang (hot & cold) in the body & environment & that a psychiatric behavior means their out of control & bring great shame to fam?

Answer 6

Asian

Question 8

What exists in each major culture where members develop new values that they honor more than the values of their dominant culture & poverty is often a characteristic?

Answer 8

Subcultures

Question 9

What culture illness beliefs include: Being overweight is associated w/ health & strength & pt’s are encouraged to be passive, pampered, and not to make decisions, but that MI is a major social stigma & psychiatric symptoms means “bad nerves” or evil spirits?

Answer 9

Arab American

Question 10

What culture illness beliefs include: illness is due to actions (karma) in past lives or a result of past actions not necessarily in a past life?

Answer 10

East Indian

Question 11

What does LEARN stand for?

Answer 11

Listen w/ empathy & understanding 
Explain your perceptions of the prob.
Acknowledge diffs/similarities
Recommend treatment
Negotiate an agreement

Question 12

What culture illness beliefs include: holistic understanding of emotional, spiritual, social, & physical factors, & that illness is seen as a crisis for the entire fam, rely on priests/religious rituals w/ candles & prayers & more likely to take advice?

Answer 12

Hispanic

Question 12

What is the ability to respond to the unique needs of populations whose cultures are diff from that of the dominant culture?

Answer 12

Cultural sensitivity

Question 14

What culture illness beliefs include: illness washes away persons sins or that it results from body imbalance

Answer 14

East Indian

Question 15

What is Kleinman’s Tool to Elicit Health Beliefs in Clinical Encounters?

Answer 15

“What” questions about the pt’s problem treatment & results

Question 16

What is the term used to describe innate tendency to own space?

Answer 16

Territoriality

Question 17

What is the term used to describe number of people w/in a given environmental space?

Answer 17

Density

Question 18

What is the term used to describe how various cultures use space to communicate?

Answer 18

Distance

Question 19

What culture illness beliefs include: the medicine man is a “Shaman”, crystals diagnose illness, sing & perform healing ceremonies & use herbs, plants or roots for healing remedies & touch is unacceptable?

Answer 19

Native Americans

Question 21

What is the term used to describe unique patterns of aberrant behavior & troubling experiences that occur in various parts of the world who’s clinical descriptions do not readily fit into Western conventional diagnostic categories?

Answer 21

Cultural-bound syndrome

Question 22

What culture illness beliefs include: preventative healthcare, oppose discrimination against people w/ physical, mental, developmental conditions?

Answer 22

Jewish Americans

Question 23

What is the term used to describe socially acquiring knowledge & internalizing values

Answer 23

Enculturation