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18 Cards in this Set
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What is cultural imposition
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Tendency to impose your beliefes, values, and patterns of behavior on individuals from another culture.
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What is culture shock
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State of disorientation to a different cultural group because of its sudden strangeness, unfamiliarity, and incompatibility to person's perceptions and expectations
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What is ethnocentrism
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Tendency to view your won way of life as the most desirable, acceptable, or best and to act superior to another culture's lifeways
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what are folk healers
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Lay healer in the person's culture apart form the biomedical/scientific healthcare system
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what are lineal relationships
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ties with other by virtue of heredity and kinship
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what is spirituality
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each person's personal effort to find purpose and meaning in life.
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what is a subculture
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fairly large aggregates of peole who have shared characteristics that are not common to all member of the culture
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describe the yin/yang theory
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health exists when all aspects of the person are in perfect balance.
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what are values
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a desirable or undesirable state of affairs, and a universal feature of all cultures.
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describe a nuclear family
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husband, wife, and children
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what is a blended family
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husband, wife, and children from previous relationships
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what is a communal family
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a group of men/women and children
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what is a cohabitation
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unmarried man/women sharing a house with children.
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what is a cultural assessment
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a systematic appraisal of an individual's beliefs, values, and practices conducted for the purpose of providing culturally competent healthcare.
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what are the four basic characteristics of culture
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culture is LEARNED from birht through the processes of language acquisition and socialization. culture is SHARED by all member of the same cultural group. culture is ADAPTED to specific conditions related to environmental and technical factors and to the availability of natural resources. and culture is DYNAMIC and ever changing.
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What is a extended family
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neclear plus blood relatives and even people who are not biologically related
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describe an individual relationship
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personal autonomy and independence. individual goals dominate, whereas group goals become secondary
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describe a collateral relationship
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focuses primarily on group goals, and the family orientation is all-important.
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