NURS 4800 Exam 1 Intro to PMH & Culture
Questions With Complete Solutions
Acculturation Correct Answers a socialization
process in which a person begins to learn and
adopt certain aspects of the dominant culture
African Americans Correct Answers - Extensive
family support networks
- Older family members treated with respect
- "Double stigma" -stigma from mental health
illness within cultural group and
racial discrimination among health care workers.
- Biased or racial treatment often leads to lack of
and decreased access to care
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Correct
Answers - Deny or disguise the existence of
mental health disease.
- It is considered an embarrassment to have a
family member treated for a disease.
- Low utilization of mental health services.
- Culture bound syndromes- (hwabyung,
neurasthenia)
Buddhism Correct Answers Attempts to deal with
problems of human existence such as suffering and
death
, The cause of all human suffering and misery is
desire.
Christianity Correct Answers Brotherly love
emphasized in acts of charity, kindness, and
forgiveness.
Clifford Beers Correct Answers - Described own
mental collapse in A Mind That Found Itself
- Began campaign for reform
- formed national committee for mental hygiene
(now *Mental Health America*)
Community Mental Health Act Correct Answers
1963
a federal initiative to provide funding for
community mental health centers and to
encourage deinstitutionalization
Confucianism Correct Answers A philosophy of
ethics for living rather than a religion that teaches
how people should act toward one another. People
born "good".
Cultural Assessment Correct Answers • How do
you define health and illness?
• How do you define good and evil?
• What do you do to get better when you are
physically or mentally ill?
• Whom do you seek help from when you are ill?
Questions With Complete Solutions
Acculturation Correct Answers a socialization
process in which a person begins to learn and
adopt certain aspects of the dominant culture
African Americans Correct Answers - Extensive
family support networks
- Older family members treated with respect
- "Double stigma" -stigma from mental health
illness within cultural group and
racial discrimination among health care workers.
- Biased or racial treatment often leads to lack of
and decreased access to care
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Correct
Answers - Deny or disguise the existence of
mental health disease.
- It is considered an embarrassment to have a
family member treated for a disease.
- Low utilization of mental health services.
- Culture bound syndromes- (hwabyung,
neurasthenia)
Buddhism Correct Answers Attempts to deal with
problems of human existence such as suffering and
death
, The cause of all human suffering and misery is
desire.
Christianity Correct Answers Brotherly love
emphasized in acts of charity, kindness, and
forgiveness.
Clifford Beers Correct Answers - Described own
mental collapse in A Mind That Found Itself
- Began campaign for reform
- formed national committee for mental hygiene
(now *Mental Health America*)
Community Mental Health Act Correct Answers
1963
a federal initiative to provide funding for
community mental health centers and to
encourage deinstitutionalization
Confucianism Correct Answers A philosophy of
ethics for living rather than a religion that teaches
how people should act toward one another. People
born "good".
Cultural Assessment Correct Answers • How do
you define health and illness?
• How do you define good and evil?
• What do you do to get better when you are
physically or mentally ill?
• Whom do you seek help from when you are ill?
