week 12 Flashcards
What is Koro?
Fear of the genitals retracting causing weakness and death. commonly seen in china and south east asia, though its not strictly limited to these areas. Traditional explanations are witchcraft, or kitsunes.
What is Taijin Kyofusho
A japanese thing, it translates to ‘interpersonal fear disorder.’ Its about feel anxious and avoiding interpersonal situations, motiviated by feeling of inadequecy, or being offensive to another (due to body odour etc).
What is Kufungisisa?
Shona (native people of zimbabwe), translates as ‘thinking too much.’ causative explanation for anxiety and depression. characterised by rumination over life problems.
Maladi Moun
Haiatian ailment (a ‘humanly caused illness’ is the translation.) diverse symptoms like psychosis, depression, academic or social failure etc. these are believed to be caused by envy/hatred by others, in a direct spirutal attack to visible sucsess. simialar to evil eye.
Ataque de Nervios
A latino ailment, characterised by symptoms of intense emotional upset and feelings of loss of control, anxiety, anger or grief. believed to be caused by heat in the chest rising into the head (panic attack?)
what is malgri?
Indigenous idea that a person who breaks these rules they have about land and sea (such as not washing his hands after eating and then swimming), will fall sick with symptoms like headaches and belly ache, tiredness etc.
Enculturation vs Acculturation.
Enculturation is when humans learn the norms and behaviours of their first, original culture.
Acculturation is the process that occurs when people join a new culture and begin to reside permanently within it.
Migration typology, what are the four types?
Integration: high enculturation and high aculturation. Good connection to their own culture, and fit in well with their new one.
Assimilation: they loose their old culture, only become the new one.
Seperation: when they maintain their old culture, but don’t take on any new.
Marginalisation: they have neither.
Out of the four types of migrants, who has the worst mental health outcomes.
Marginalised, by a signifcant amount. Worse than aussie mean, and afghani mean.
What is biological reductionism
Idea that all mental health problems involve disorders of brain function–Psychiatry driven by faith that biomarkers will be found
What is the PTM framework
Power-threat-meaning framework.
Developed as a collab between mental health providers and client groups; problem framed in terms of power differentials, threats to self and personal meaning. Avoids labelling symptoms as disorders.
