Psychosocial Adaptation and Mental Health Flashcards
What is Stress?
Any type of change that causes physical,emotional or physical strain
What is coping?
The thoughts and behaviors used to manage the internal and external demands of stressful situations
What is biopsychology perspective on adaptation
Emphasizes the interaction of biological, psychological, and social system factors in understanding behavioral ,emotional and cognitive function
What do we know about the experience of stress by African American
-Greater tree than Euro -Americans - Stre= racial + stress factors - Experience of mundane stress [chronic, daily bouts of bias, racism] -Greater stress if internalizee white’s stereotypes about African Americans - In general, culture influences how one perceives and deals with stress
In relation to stress AA show
- Few differences for lifetime prevalence for mental disorders - Higher lifetime risk for phobia - Lower risk for depression and cognitive disorders - Slightly higher rates of somatization - Slightly lower rates of substance abuse and affective disorders - lower rates for suicidal ideation - Lower rates of suicide -Decreased self-reports of happiness - Decreased environmental concerns and serious personal problems - Lower levels of lifetime prevalence of mental illness
What is Materialism Depression?
Oppressed state of mind leads to a sense of relative deprivation and need for possession to support ones sense of self
What is psychological misorientation?
Black personality disorder wherein person operates without an African belief-system
What is mentacide?
Presumed process whereby individuals lose their psychological blackness as a result of dominant groups imposition of its culture on a subordinate group
Anti-selt disorder
When the minority individual internalize the majority cultures negative stereotypes and attitudes about his/her minority group
How does race and culture impact the psychotherapeutic situation for African Americans ?
Treatment Concerns:
Racism sen as having a negative impact on adaptation and functioning of a AA
-Therapeutic situation can be said to reflect cultural encapsulation when it inhibits a set of cultural values incongruent with the client group being served
What is cultural encapsulation?
The tendency of counselors to avoid the reality that their beliefs, values, education, training, and practical are informed by a specific culturally bound lens
What are factors influencing therapy situation
-Clients reaction to racial oppression - Degree to which client internalizes majority stereotypes about blacks - influence of traditional African cultural values on client - Clients family experiences that may/may not be related to his/her ethnic group membership - clients level of acculturation to majority culture and its worldview - AAs tend to be more adverse to taking antidepressants than whites especially the case for black [ and Latina] women
Do African Americans experience mental health problems to a greater degree than d other U.S. ethnic groups?
Higher lifetime risk: phobia and somatization
Lower lifetime risk - depression and cognitive disorders, & substance abuse and affective disorders. & prevalence of mental illness
Is suicide a problem for African Americans?
No. Black female [17%] Black males [7%]
