CULTURE & DEVELOPMENT Flashcards
What is culture?
a socially transmitted system of ideas that
- shapes behavior
- categorizes perceptions
- gives names to selected aspects of experience
- is widely shared by members of a particular society or social group
- functions as an orientational framework to coordinate and sanction behavior
- conveys values across the generations
Why is culture important
- growing need for mental health services for the country’s racial/ethnic minorities
How is culture related to mental health?
Culture is center to the etiology of mental disorders by providing standards for what is normal vs. abnormal
____ shapes what symptoms are expressed and how they are expressed
culture
When do children develop a sense of ethnic identity?
3-4 years old – children can detect differences in language use
4-8 years old children develop a sense of ethnic identity
aspects of cultural identity
ethnicity, race, beliefs, values, expectations, norms, family structure, etc
What are the 4 types of acculturation strategies?
Assimilation
Seperation/segregation
Integration
Marginalization
What is assiilation?
Individuals do not wish to maintain their cultural identity & seek daily interaction with other cultures
What is the difference of separation vs segregation?
value holding on to their original culture & avoid interactions with others
What is integration?
some degree of cultural integrity is maintained while at the same time seeking to participate as an integral part of the larger social network
what is marginalization?
little possibility or interest in cultural maintenance and little interest in having relations with others
what are the risk & resiliency factors associated with acculturative stress?
- positive vs negative attitudes towards ethnic group
- discrimination
- marginalization
- cultural distance
what is acculturative stress?
the psychological, somatic ,and social difficulties that may accompany acculturation processes
