Cross-cultural psychiatry

in Pastoral Settings”. This module starts with “Goals” and “Outcomes” for the upcoming sections. It is easy to see and identify upcoming issues, as well as learning outcomes. In addition, this module concentrates on self-view, social groups, and cultural conflicts. It helps identify dimensions of different groups, collectivist or individualist in nature. The next section of this module starts with “The face of the groups”. It is about social image that a certain group or groups want to be seen…

Introduction With an evolving global workforce, the ability to adapt to and embrace cultural diversity in the workplace, remains an ongoing challenge necessary to tackle, and an opportunity for organizations to thrive in the market. This field research paper will focus on exploring the issues and the benefits of cultural diversity, intercultural relationships and communication in the workforce. The use of data collection will be used in this paper along with discussion from interviewing a…

shows the overall cluster’s societal practices and values. “For the overall cluster’s societal practices are high on group collectivism (5.87), power distance (5.39), and humane orientation (4.72) and low on gender egalitarianism (3.28). The other cultural dimensions are rated in the mid-range, around an average of 4. -- As for societal values, the cluster rates high on performance orientation (5.99), future orientation (5.86), group collectivism (5.77), and humane orientation (5.32). It scores…

Technology & Social Media’s Role in Cultural Competence Education With the internationalization of technical exchanges and the increasing popularity of social media in the everyday lives of today’s society, the need for cultural competence education has become the focus of educators as well as the technical community. Cultural competence is the capacity to change one’s attitudes, values and behavior so as to be open and flexible with other cultures and has become increasingly crucial for…

than 2 then dummy is equal to 1. The coefficient on the interaction term between the ADR and performance is negative and significant when the LTO dummy is equal to 1. It suggests that cross-listed firms from countries with the higher LTO value become more sensitive to the poor performance compared with the non-cross-listed firms from the same country. For the firms in the countries with lower than US LTO index, the interaction term is positive, which means the firms become less sensitive to…

In the negotiation process is critical to consider the cultural differences between buyer and seller. In a study about “What is culture?” lead by the University of Warwick, there are around 164 definitions of culture due to the multiple usages of this concept. In my opinion, the best meaning of culture is “the set of attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviors shared by a group of people, but different for each individual, communicated from one generation to the next” (Matsumoto, 1996). Taking…

Not all cultures are identical to one another; some may or may not share the same characteristics depending on what region that country or society falls in. Before implementing counterinsurgency, one must be cross-cultural competence by having cultural awareness. This essay will offer cultural awareness of Spain focusing on three Operational Environment (OE) variables. Discussions will cover areas such as physical geography, military conflict history, analysis of weather and its effects on…

1. Introduction This study explores how five contemporary international artists who work and create artwork with “migration” as a theme, and how they have conceptualized their artistic and social identities through their personal experiences. Through these five artists, the study seeks to understand and explore how displacement is used as a technique to express their life experience. The five artists chosen to demonstrate this approach are Jacob Lawrence, Tracey Moffatt, Gerald Machona, Suh…

Semantics, the study of meanings, is often confused with verbal disputes. Verbal disputes happen when there is questioning over what word to use. Semantic disputes happen when there is debate over what something means. Denotation is the actual meaning of a word. On the other hand, connotation is the feeling someone gets from hearing or using a word. Sometimes people will say a word to show the feeling that words gives off rather than use the word for it’s actual definition. For example, people…

The ethnographic case studies written by Marcel Mauss; The gift, thieving a chance by Rebecca prentice and Tongan women and migratory circuits of wealth by Ping-Ann Addo are all uniquely different, representing different traditions as well as different concepts based on their way of life. However, these three case studies, regardless of the differences in their concepts of culture, all represents similar traditions. These case studies all follow the rule of reciprocity, exchange, gifting and…