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What does it mean to be a culturally competent practitioner? (4)

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  • Understanding who you are and what you bring to the table
  • Awareness that there are other cultures
  • Being accepting of other cultures
  • Be willing to modify or adapt plan for potential barriers
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What is the evolution through development of cultural competence? (5)

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  1. Unawareness
  2. Acknowledgment of differences
  3. Change in behaviors
  4. Awareness of a need to know more
  5. Gain in cultural knowledge
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How are individuals classified?

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  • Where are they from
  • Occupation
  • Gender
  • Age
  • Interests
  • Religion
  • Race & ethnicity
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How do PTs deal with cultural issues?

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  • Check you baggage

- Self assess your nonverbals

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What does “check your baggage mean?”

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Leave opinions at the door and be open minded

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What is culture? (9)

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  • Language
  • Traditions
  • Beliefs
  • Values
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Food you eat
  • Clothing
  • Socioeconomic status
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What is culture like?

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An iceberg

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How is culture like an iceberg?

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only a little can be seen to give you an idea of what it is but the majority of it is not visible

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Culture is a?

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  • Social connection
  • Unity and community
  • objective and subjective
  • Primary and secondary
  • Internalized or externalized
  • Dynamic
  • Multi-level
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What is acculturation?

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Completely adopting everything about the dominant culture

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What is assimilation?

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The language or culture of a person or group come to resemble that of another group (blend culture)

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What is bicultural?

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Of 2 cultures

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What is multiculturalism?

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Of many cultures

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What is diversity?

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Inclusion of different cultures into a group

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What is cultural awareness?

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Acknowledging your own culture and other people’s cultures and the differences.

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What is cultural competence?

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Set of behaviors, attitudes, policies that allow you to work professionally in cross cultural situations

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What is cultural knowledge?

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Basic info to develop the base for different cultural groups

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What is cultural proficiency?

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Knowledge to a higher level of understanding helps increase effectiveness of interaction

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What is cultural sensitivity?

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Enables you to develop an understanding and learn about people’s different values and beliefs

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What is cultural destruction?

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Aspects of a culture that are left behind due to assimilation

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What is intracultural?

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With in one cultural group

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What is intercultural?

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Between cultures

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What are primary characteristics of culture?

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Visible differences

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What are examples of primary cultural characteristics?

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  • Gender
  • Nationality
  • Race
  • Color
  • Age
  • Religious affiliation
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What are secondary characteristics of culture?
Invisible differences
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What are examples of secondary cultural characteristics?
- Occupation - Life circumstances - Experiences - Education level - Marital status - Socioeconomic status - Political beliefs - Where they live
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What are individualistic cultures?
Individual comes first then group
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What are collectivist cultures?
Group comes first then individual
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What are some factors to consider when dealing with individuals from different cultures?
- Body language - Eye contact - Multitasking - Personal space - Respect for authority figures - Small talk - Timeliness
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What are the 2 types of time?
Monochronic and polychronic
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What is monochronic?
There is only one time (punctual people)
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What is polychronic?
- There is many times | - Time can be shifted or changed
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What are the 4 types of space?
- Intimate space - Personal space - Social space - Public space
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How big is intimate space?
6"-18"
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How big is personal space?
18"-4'
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How big is social space?
4'-7'
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How big is public space?
12'-15'
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What does the "OK" hand gesture mean in the US, Russia, Brazil, and Japan?
``` US = OK Russia = Zero Brazil = Insult Japan = Money ```
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What are strategies that can be used to overcome a language barrier?
Interpreter (Professional or family member/friend)
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What is translator etiquette?
Talk to the patient not the translator
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What are the 3 models of why illness happens?
- Biomedical model - Personalistic model - Naturalistic model
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What is the biomedical model?
There is a scientific reason why you are sick
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What is the personalistic model?
Belief that a supernatural being or power is responsible for you having this disability
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What is the naturalistic model?
Belief that an imbalance with nature is causing the injury.
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How does one belief they heal in the naturalistic model?
Once the imbalance is fixed
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What is habilitation?
Maintaining a current level
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What is rehabilitation?
Returning or restoring skills lost due to illness or injury
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What are appropriate "SICK" behaviors?
- Hesitance to do an activity that caused injury | - Hesitance to go home and be independent
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What is learned helplessness?
Dependency on another to do something for you
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What are comorbitities?
Conditions that are grouped together
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Disability can be seen as a? (3)
- Gift - Punishment - Atonement
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What is the moral model?
Disability is sinful, result of doing something wrong (atonement)
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What is the medical model?
Disability is a problem that needs to be fixed, intervention (usually very expensive and may not really help disability)
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What is the rehab model?
Disability is a problem that needs to be fixed, intervention, and the problem is fixed by working with the person
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What is the disability model?
Disabilities are much more accepted, normal part of life, nothing wrong with disability
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What is another name for the disability model?
Social model
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What is the ADA?
Americans with Disability Act
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When did the ADA form?
1990's
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What is a disability?
Any physical or mental impairment, which substantially limits 1 or more of the major activities of the individual
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What is people first language?
Putting the person before the disability
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What are words not to use?
Afflicted, Abnormal, Atypical, Defective, Disabled, Handicapped, Challenged, Impaired, Limited, Retarded, Exceptional, Infirmed, Lame, Medically fragile, Special, Delayed, Sick
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What is meant by the term an "Individual with Special Needs?"
Someone who needs something additional to the normal person
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What are important things to develop?
- Effective therapeutic relationships - Effective communication strategies - Strategies that enhance learning
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What are the 7 disability types?
1. Sensory 2. Learning 3. Developmental 4. Mental 5. Physical 6. Communication 7. Chronic Illness
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What is an example of a sensory disability?
Deaf or blind
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What is an example of a learning disability?
Dsylexia
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What is an example of a developmental disability?
Autism, ADHD, and Aspergers
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What is an example of a mental disability?
Altered Cognition
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What is an example of a physical disability?
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
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What is an example of a communication disability?
Muteness, Aphasia
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What is an example of a chronic illness?
Lupus, Asthma
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How are developmental disabilities determined?
They are present at birth
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How are physical disabilities determined?
Intact then injury occurs
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How does disability and poverty effect socioeconomic status?
- Lack of employment | - Inflexible employment
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How does disability and poverty effect education?
- Lack of education | - Inaccessible information
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How does disability and poverty effect healthcare?
- Inaccessible facilities | - Inaccessible transportation
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How does disability and poverty effect healthcare?
- Inaccessible facilities | - Inaccessible transportation
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What are the symptoms of poverty?
Basic needs, education, and healthcare
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What are the basic needs that tie into the symptoms of poverty?
Diet, home, safety
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What are the educations types that tie into the symptoms of poverty?
Oral, written, and computer
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What does the PT practice involve in terms of literacy?
Patient education, outcome, and adherence

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