leininger Flashcards
MADELEINE M. LEININGER
CULTURE CARE THEORY
OF DIVERSITY AND
UNIVERSALITY
CULTURE CARE THEORY
OF DIVERSITY AND
UNIVERSALITY
MADELEINE M. LEININGER
phenomena related to assistive, supportive, enabling, and
facilitating ways towards or about self or others
CARE
behavior towards assisting others with anticipated needs
to improve the condition
caring
learned and transmitted lay, indigenous, traditional or local folk (emic)
knowledge and practices to give assistance with anticipated health
needs to improve wellbeing.
GENERIC CARE
formal and explicit cognitively learned professional care knowledge
and practices from educational institutions.
PROFESSIONAL CARE
learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms, and lifeways
of a certain culture that guide thinking, decisions, and actions.
CULTURE
obtained values, beliefs, and outlines of lifeways that assist, enable,
support, facilitate, or empower others to maintain health, well-being,
and other human conditions.
CULTURE CARE
culturally based care knowledge, acts, and decisions used in sensitive,
creative, and meaningful ways to fit values, beliefs, and lifeways of
clients for their health and wellbeing.
CULTURALLY CONGRUENT CARE
commonly shared or similar cultural care phenomena that reflect
assistive ways to help people.
CULTURAL CARE UNIVERSALITY
variabilities or differences in culture care beliefs, meanings, values,
symbols, and other features related in supporting human care
CULTURAL CARE DIVERSITY
changing patterns related to the arrangement/organizational factors
of a culture (subculture or society)
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE DIMENSION
summation of a situation or experience that gives meaning to human
expressions.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT
past facts, events, and experiences that are mainly people-centered
(ethnic) and explains human lifeways within cultural trends
ETHNOHISTORY
local, indigenous, or the insider’s views and values about a phenomenon.
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