DSM 5 Terms Flashcards
A set of meanings, norms, beliefs, values, and behavioral patterns among humans across the globe
Culture
Social relationships, language, nonverbal expression of thoughts and emotions, moral and religious beliefs, rituals, technology, and economic beliefs and practices
Values
Race is
Social not biological construct based on superficial traits
Culturally constructed group identity used to define peoples and communities
Ethnicity
Describes the ways individuals express, report, and interpret experiences of illness and distress
Cultural concepts of distress
Cultural concepts of distress include
Idioms, explanations, or perceived causes and syndromes
Behaviors or linguistic terms, metaphors, phrases, or ways of talking about symptoms, problems, or suffering that are commonly used in cultural backgrounds
Cultural idioms of distress
Burnout, feeling stressed, nervous breakdown, feeling depressed
Example of idioms of distress
Created by DSM to give clinicians a framework for assessing the role culture has in psychiatric illness
Cultural formulation
Describes the individual’s demographic
Cultural identity of the individual
Influences how the individual experiences, understands, and communicates their symptoms or problems
Cultural concepts of distress
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
Cultural formulation interview
Clusters of symptoms and attributions that tend to co-occur among individuals in specific cultural groups
Cultural syndromes
Ignores explanations or experiences of cultural distress
Cultural boundaries syndrome
Problems judging distortion from reality, problems in assessing unfamiliar behaviors, distinguishing pathological from normal cultural behavior
Dilemmas
The process of assimilation to the cultural norms in which the individuals is now living in
Acculturation
Actively resisting the incorporation of the values and social patterns of another cultural group. Ex: cults
Rejection
Wish to maintain a firm sense of one’s cultural heritage and not abandon those values; bicultural identity, psychological
Integration
Conscious and unconscious giving up of one’s culture in favor of another group or majority culture
Assimilation
Psychological characteristics of rejection or loss of value of one’s heritage; rejected or alienated from the norms of the majority culture
Marginalization
Perceived causes are labels, attributions or features of an explanatory model that indicates meaning for symptoms etc
Cultural explanation
Involves addressing issues of equity, power relations, and institutionalized oppression
Social justice
The belief in a higher interconnecting power
Spirituality
Giving up ethnicity based cultural values, beliefs, and traditions, while adopting values, beliefs of a dominant social structure
Acculturation
