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Mental Health Culture, Ethnicity and Spirituality

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This deck covers key concepts related to culture, ethnicity, spirituality, and their intersection with mental health. It includes definitions, theories, and guidelines for cultural competence and communication.

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Culture

Multifaceted term that refers to many groups that can include gender, age, socioeconomic status, membership in social or sport groups, organizational environments, political affiliation, education level, employment, and mental or physical disability.
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Definition
Culture
Multifaceted term that refers to many groups that can include gender, age, socioeconomic status, membership in social or sport groups, organizational ...
Cultural Heritage
Integrated pattern of human behavior of members of a social, racial or religious groups that is passed down from one generation to the next.
Ethnicity
Race or groups that has common traits and customs.
Health Literacy
Ability to understand basic health information and the services available to assist them with making of appropriate health decisions.
Primary characteristic of cultural diversity
• Nationality • Race • Color • Gender • Age • Religious beliefs
Secondary characteristic of cultural diversity
• More powerful effect on individual's cultural identity • Socioeconomic status • Occupation • Education • Gender Issues • Geographic place of resid...
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Mental Health Culture, Ethnicity and Spirituality
TermDefinition
Culture
Multifaceted term that refers to many groups that can include gender, age, socioeconomic status, membership in social or sport groups, organizational environments, political affiliation, education level, employment, and mental or physical disability.
Cultural Heritage
Integrated pattern of human behavior of members of a social, racial or religious groups that is passed down from one generation to the next.
Ethnicity
Race or groups that has common traits and customs.
Health Literacy
Ability to understand basic health information and the services available to assist them with making of appropriate health decisions.
Primary characteristic of cultural diversity
• Nationality • Race • Color • Gender • Age • Religious beliefs
Secondary characteristic of cultural diversity
• More powerful effect on individual's cultural identity • Socioeconomic status • Occupation • Education • Gender Issues • Geographic place of residence • Length of time absent from country of origin • Sexual orientation
Western Health Care System as a Culture
• Scientific evidence is primary acceptable method for establishing truth and gaining new knowledge. • HCP are socialized into various specialties. • They treat physiologic aspects
Cultural Awareness
• Understanding and valuing all aspects of another person’s culture. • Awareness of one’s own culture.
Cultural competence
• Respect for diversity and understanding of other culture’s and their languages. • Establishing trust between patient and health care professionals is the key to an effective relationship
Guidelines for communicating with Non-English Speaking Patients
• Personal Space • Touch • Time Orientation • Biologic Characteristics • Translation Services
Spirituality
• Influenced by culture, and life experiences. • Helps connect people to each other, community and the world. • Along with religion and faith, experienced and expressed in a variety of ways • Includes: core beliefs about people, divine, relationship between them
Spiritual distress
Nursing diagnosis defined as a disruption in value and belief system that pervades the person’s state of being and that transcends the physical and psychosocial self.
Assessments and interventions
• Vocation and Obligation • Experience • Courage and Growth • Ritual and Practice • Community • Authority and Guidance
Fowler’s stages of Religious Development Theory
Individuals passes through various stages in a linear fashion on basis of age.
Kohlberg’s Six Stages of Moral Development Theory
Individuals move in a linear fashion with age through key areas of faith and spiritual reasoning.
Xenophobia
Morbid fear of strangers and of those who are not member’s of one’s own ethnic group.