1. Learned
2. Passed on
3. Set of Meanings have meaning (symbols, words, etc)
4. Template to shape future behaviors
5. Constant state of change
6. Contains both subjective and objective components of human behavior
What are the 6 essential components of culture?
1. cultural identity
2. cultural explanation of illness
3. cultural factors related to psychosocial environment
4. cultural relationship between patient and clinician.
5. cultural assessment for diagnosis and care
What are the 5 areas of assessment for culture?
Explanatory Model
Moral Model
Religious Model
Magical/Supernatural Model
Medical Model
Psychosocial Stress Model
These are all part of what model?
Moral Model
This type of explanatory model implies that the patient's illness is caused by a moral defect such as selfishness
Religious Model
This type of explanatory model implies that the patient's illness is caused by a punishment for religious failing or transgression
Magical/Supernatural Model
This type of explanatory model implies that the patient's illness is caused by sorcery/witchcraft
Medical Model
This type of explanatory model implies that the patient's illness is caused by a biological etiology
Psychosocial Model
This type of explanatory model implies that the patient's illness is caused by an overwhelming psychosocial stressor
Rejection
Integration
Assimilation
Marginalization
What are the 4 possible outcomes of acculturative stress? (leaving one's culture for another)
Rejection
What type of the 4 outcomes of acculturation is defined by the individuals' wishes to maintain their cultural integrity by resisting the other culture or disengaging from it?
Integration
What type of the 4 outcomes of acculturation is defined by both maintaining a firm sense of one's cultural heritage and not abandoning those values of one's culture of origin
Religious Cults
What is an example of rejection with acculturation?
Assimilation
What type of the 4 outcomes of acculturation is defined by the conscious and unconscious giving up of one's culture of origin in favor of another's culture.
Marginalization
What type of the 4 outcomes of acculturation is defined by the rejection/loss of one's cultural heritage while also rejecting/alienated from the other culture
African Americans
Which ethnicity is more likely to use the emergency room services and be hospitalized involuntarily.
Asian Indian Americans
Which ethnicity was 23.6% less likely to use prescription drugs?
Idioms of Distress
specific ways in which different cultures or societies report ailments
Social Desirability
similarities/differences among cultures in relation to the experiencing stressful events
Ethnographic Data
systematic study of people and cultures