DSM 5 Terms

Question 1

A set of meanings, norms, beliefs, values, and behavioral patterns among humans across the globe

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

Social relationships, language, nonverbal expression of thoughts and emotions, moral and religious beliefs, rituals, technology, and economic beliefs and practices

Answer 2

Values

Question 3

Race is

Answer 3

Social not biological construct based on superficial traits

Question 4

Culturally constructed group identity used to define peoples and communities

Answer 4

Ethnicity

Question 5

Describes the ways individuals express, report, and interpret experiences of illness and distress

Answer 5

Cultural concepts of distress

Question 6

Cultural concepts of distress include

Answer 6

Idioms, explanations, or perceived causes and syndromes

Question 7

Behaviors or linguistic terms, metaphors, phrases, or ways of talking about symptoms, problems, or suffering that are commonly used in cultural backgrounds

Answer 7

Cultural idioms of distress

Question 8

Burnout, feeling stressed, nervous breakdown, feeling depressed

Answer 8

Example of idioms of distress

Question 9

Created by DSM to give clinicians a framework for assessing the role culture has in psychiatric illness

Answer 9

Cultural formulation

Question 10

Describes the individual’s demographic

Answer 10

Cultural identity of the individual

Question 11

Influences how the individual experiences, understands, and communicates their symptoms or problems

Answer 11

Cultural concepts of distress

Question 12

A brief semi structured interview for systemically assessing cultural factors relevant to the care of the individual, set of 16 questions with three core concepts

Answer 12

Cultural formulation interview

Question 13

Clusters of symptoms and attributions that tend to co-occur among individuals in specific cultural groups

Answer 13

Cultural syndromes

Question 14

Ignores explanations or experiences of cultural distress

Answer 14

Cultural boundaries syndrome

Question 15

Problems judging distortion from reality, problems in assessing unfamiliar behaviors, distinguishing pathological from normal cultural behavior

Answer 15

Dilemmas

Question 16

The process of assimilation to the cultural norms in which the individuals is now living in

Answer 16

Acculturation

Question 17

Actively resisting the incorporation of the values and social patterns of another cultural group. Ex: cults

Answer 17

Rejection

Question 18

Wish to maintain a firm sense of one’s cultural heritage and not abandon those values; bicultural identity, psychological

Answer 18

Integration

Question 19

Conscious and unconscious giving up of one’s culture in favor of another group or majority culture

Answer 19

Assimilation

Question 20

Psychological characteristics of rejection or loss of value of one’s heritage; rejected or alienated from the norms of the majority culture

Answer 20

Marginalization

Question 21

Perceived causes are labels, attributions or features of an explanatory model that indicates meaning for symptoms etc

Answer 21

Cultural explanation

Question 22

Involves addressing issues of equity, power relations, and institutionalized oppression

Answer 22

Social justice

Question 23

The belief in a higher interconnecting power

Answer 23

Spirituality

Question 24

Giving up ethnicity based cultural values, beliefs, and traditions, while adopting values, beliefs of a dominant social structure

Answer 24

Acculturation