Final Exam Flashcards
Chapters 6, 12, 15, 4 (online)
What are the 4 Theories related to Age
- Life Course Theory
- Cumulative Advantage/Disadvantage Perspective
- Feminist Theory
- Intersectionality Theory
What is Life Course Theory?
- Each experience affects the next, which affects next, and so on.
- Influence individuals’ opportunities, life choices, developmental paths, and aging experiences
What is Cumulative Dis/Ad Perspective
- Diversity explained through the accumulation of privileges/disadvantages of one’s life
What is Feminist Theory (aging)
- Explores older women being undervalued within society, oppression within the family and comparatively higher rates of poverty
What is Intersectionality Theory (aging)
- Different dimensions of oppression associated with different categories/intersectionalities
What is the Narrative Approach with aging pop.?
- Clients share their lived experiences incorporating deeper meaning and understanding
- Supportive outcomes using this approach with aging populations
What is Dignity Therapy (4 points)
- Involves asking questions about life history and work,
- helping patients to define and refine what their ultimate legacy is and what they want to pass down to the generations that follow
- encourages saying things to loved ones that have remain unsaid to achieve closure
- The therapist then helps the patient craft a meaningful document
What is Medical Assisted in Dying
March 17, 2021
- Parliament passed revised legislation that makes important changes to who may be eligible to obtain medical assistance in dying and the process of assessment
Age Cohort vs Birth Cohort
Age - same age, same period)
Birth - same year
(used to group people for research)
Things the differentiate/affect entire Cohorts?
- political movements
- environmental disasters
- historical events/experiences
Common themes of “I know a Woman Like That” video
- they do not feel or identify as old
- they are excited to try new things and accomplish more
- they do not see their life as over (not throwing in the towel)
- they still either feel or want to be perceived as beautiful
Acculturation
- The process of cultural and psychological change that result after a meeting between cultures
- Individuals may show the effects of acculturation through changes-in their everyday behaviours and ways of perceiving themselves and the world around them. Groups may show the effects of acculturation through changes in their cultural activities and institutions
Assimilation
- A process by which a person or persons acquire the culture, values, and patterns of another group through adopting the social and psychological characteristic of that group
- move towards host culture
Integration
The process of unifying distinctive groups or individuals through full participation in the social, economic, political, educational, and cultural life of a society while retaining ones own unique identity
- merge of both cultures
Rejection
move away from host culture
Marginalization
move away from both cultures
Hegemonic Masculinity
- Captures dominant male characteristics which are culturally
specific - How men are measured in terms of their manhood (i.e. white, heterosexual, professional, aggressive, independent)
- Oppressed men who do not fit stereotype
Toxic Masculinity
- Used to describe a set of very narrow standards, behaviours, and expectations for manhood and masculinity that values dominance, power, and control and devalues empathy, the acknowledgment of emotions, and other traits that fit outside of this narrow definition
Smudging and its benefits
- the burning of one or more Indigenous sacred herbs/medicines
- used for purification/clarifying purposed
- clear negative energy
- promote balance
Sweat Lodge and its benefits
- heated dome-shaped structures used by Indigenous peoples during certain purification rites and as a way to promote healthy living.
- represent a return to mothers womb
Describe immigration after WWII
- increased immigration due to economic demand
- seeking a balance between population growth and economic
stability
Immigration during/after WWI
- Fear halted immigration during WWI (1914-1918) and the economy during the Great Depression (1929-1933).
Dual Diagnosis
Mental illness + Developmental disability
Concurrent Disorder
Mental illness + substance use problems
Three (3) Models of Disability
- Medical
- Social
- Independent Living