Mental Health Exam 1: Ch 1-2, 5-9
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1. Mental health: Able to recognize own potential
Cope with normal stress
Work productively
Make contribution to community
2. Traits of Mental Health: Ability to:
-think rationally,
-communicate appropriately,
-learn,
-grow emotionally,
be resilient,
-have a healthy self-esteem
3. stigma across cultures: Negative attitudes towards mental illness and its treatment
4. What is culture?: It is part of our lives: how we think, what we think, attitudes towards health and illness, how
we choose to live our lives, and what we learn from family, friends, and community.
5. Culture: *Groups with shared beliefs, values, and practices.
*Influences their thinking and behavior.
6. Culture values: What we believe to be important, desirable, or right
7. Enculturation: * learning the rules of right and wrong.
* Preparing a child to live within his/her culture.
* A culture's worldview, beliefs, values, and practices are transmitted to its members. (Book)
* Ex: children learn from parents which behaviors, beliefs, values, and actions are right and which are wrong int he
context of their culture.
8. Attributes of mental health:
9. Mental Illness: Disorders with definable diagnosis
Significant dysfunction in mental functioning related to:
-Developmental
-Biological
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-Physiological disturbances
Culturally defined
10. Resilience: the ability and capacity for people to secure the resources they need to support their well-being
Characterized by:
-optimism
-Sense of Mastery
-Competence
This is essential to recovery
11. Nature vs. Nurture: Do genes (nature) or environmental factors (nurture) contribute more to a person's
being?
12. diathesis-stress model: suggests that a person may be predisposed for a mental disorder that remains
unexpressed until triggered by stress
(most accepted explanation for mental illness)
13. Culturally relevant care: * Concept of mental health and illness is formed within a culture.
* Deviance from cultural expectations can be defined as illness by other members of the group.
* Diversity of United States and the rest of the world increasing.
* Culturally relevant nursing is becoming more important.
14. Western tradition: * Based on Greek, Roman, and Jude's-Christian thoughts
- Identity found in individuality
- Values
*Autonomy
*Independence
*Self-reliance
- Mind and body are separate entities
- Disease has a cause, treatment is aimed at cause
- Time is LINEAR
- Success attained in preparing for the future
15. Many Non-Western traditions: * Family basis for identity.
* Mental illness influences reputation of whole family.
* Body-mind-spirit are all ONE entity.
* Disease caused by fluctuations in opposing forces.
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* Time is CIRCULAR and RECURRING.
* Born into a fate, duty to comply. (Believes mentally ill pt are caused due to their past life's sin)
16. Ethnocentric tendencies in nursing: * Nurses influenced by their own professional and ethnic
cultures.
* Cultural imposition does not promote client health and well being.
17. Ethnocnetrism: Assuming one's own beliefs, values, and practices are the best, preferred, or only way.
18. Culture & mental health: * Mental health is seen as the degree to which a person fulfills the expectation
of the culture.
* Good nursing adapts care to the client's cultural ends and preferences.
* ...It is a human right to have one's cultural values, beliefs, practices and needs respected, understood and appropri-
ately used within any caring or curing context...
19. Culturally competency: * The ability to bridge cultural gaps.
* Respect for cultural differences.
* Understanding of one's own culture.
-Identify your own culture
-Identify your professional culture
-Identify your organizational culture
20. Barries to culturally competent in Mental Health Nursing: * Communication barriers
-Different languages
-Use of interpreter, demographically (un)matched
-Nonverbal communication patterns
-Interpretation of language ad culture
-Avoid family members and friends
-Emotions difficult to translate
* Client has the right to professional medical interpreter.
-If possible, culturally matched to more than language
21. Barriers to culturally competent (continue): * Misdiagnosis
* Use of culturally inappropriate psychometric instruments.
* Culture-bound syndromes
-Effectively treated in culturally prescribed way.
* For nurse to provide culturally competent care
-Take time to study client's culture
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1. Mental health: Able to recognize own potential
Cope with normal stress
Work productively
Make contribution to community
2. Traits of Mental Health: Ability to:
-think rationally,
-communicate appropriately,
-learn,
-grow emotionally,
be resilient,
-have a healthy self-esteem
3. stigma across cultures: Negative attitudes towards mental illness and its treatment
4. What is culture?: It is part of our lives: how we think, what we think, attitudes towards health and illness, how
we choose to live our lives, and what we learn from family, friends, and community.
5. Culture: *Groups with shared beliefs, values, and practices.
*Influences their thinking and behavior.
6. Culture values: What we believe to be important, desirable, or right
7. Enculturation: * learning the rules of right and wrong.
* Preparing a child to live within his/her culture.
* A culture's worldview, beliefs, values, and practices are transmitted to its members. (Book)
* Ex: children learn from parents which behaviors, beliefs, values, and actions are right and which are wrong int he
context of their culture.
8. Attributes of mental health:
9. Mental Illness: Disorders with definable diagnosis
Significant dysfunction in mental functioning related to:
-Developmental
-Biological
, Mental Health Exam 1: Ch 1-2, 5-9
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-Physiological disturbances
Culturally defined
10. Resilience: the ability and capacity for people to secure the resources they need to support their well-being
Characterized by:
-optimism
-Sense of Mastery
-Competence
This is essential to recovery
11. Nature vs. Nurture: Do genes (nature) or environmental factors (nurture) contribute more to a person's
being?
12. diathesis-stress model: suggests that a person may be predisposed for a mental disorder that remains
unexpressed until triggered by stress
(most accepted explanation for mental illness)
13. Culturally relevant care: * Concept of mental health and illness is formed within a culture.
* Deviance from cultural expectations can be defined as illness by other members of the group.
* Diversity of United States and the rest of the world increasing.
* Culturally relevant nursing is becoming more important.
14. Western tradition: * Based on Greek, Roman, and Jude's-Christian thoughts
- Identity found in individuality
- Values
*Autonomy
*Independence
*Self-reliance
- Mind and body are separate entities
- Disease has a cause, treatment is aimed at cause
- Time is LINEAR
- Success attained in preparing for the future
15. Many Non-Western traditions: * Family basis for identity.
* Mental illness influences reputation of whole family.
* Body-mind-spirit are all ONE entity.
* Disease caused by fluctuations in opposing forces.
, Mental Health Exam 1: Ch 1-2, 5-9
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* Time is CIRCULAR and RECURRING.
* Born into a fate, duty to comply. (Believes mentally ill pt are caused due to their past life's sin)
16. Ethnocentric tendencies in nursing: * Nurses influenced by their own professional and ethnic
cultures.
* Cultural imposition does not promote client health and well being.
17. Ethnocnetrism: Assuming one's own beliefs, values, and practices are the best, preferred, or only way.
18. Culture & mental health: * Mental health is seen as the degree to which a person fulfills the expectation
of the culture.
* Good nursing adapts care to the client's cultural ends and preferences.
* ...It is a human right to have one's cultural values, beliefs, practices and needs respected, understood and appropri-
ately used within any caring or curing context...
19. Culturally competency: * The ability to bridge cultural gaps.
* Respect for cultural differences.
* Understanding of one's own culture.
-Identify your own culture
-Identify your professional culture
-Identify your organizational culture
20. Barries to culturally competent in Mental Health Nursing: * Communication barriers
-Different languages
-Use of interpreter, demographically (un)matched
-Nonverbal communication patterns
-Interpretation of language ad culture
-Avoid family members and friends
-Emotions difficult to translate
* Client has the right to professional medical interpreter.
-If possible, culturally matched to more than language
21. Barriers to culturally competent (continue): * Misdiagnosis
* Use of culturally inappropriate psychometric instruments.
* Culture-bound syndromes
-Effectively treated in culturally prescribed way.
* For nurse to provide culturally competent care
-Take time to study client's culture
