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cultural psy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Indigenous therapists: | therapist who does not have a real degree, officially they do not practice or are not practice to do therapist. Ex: bar tenders, nail person, clergy, etc. |
| Non-Western- | who by our criteria end up doing therapy without being educated… this are people who we refer to as medicine man, curanderas, religious influence. |
| Western | About how we can do the job that any therapist can do if they have the training needed |
| Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter: finding out the right name | If you are a traditional Navajo, if you haven’t become to Americanize, and something begins to bother you and you begin to hear voices. western therapist would see it as a hallucination, they might give you medication. |
| Naming: | when someone says the name of what you have then you have a little hope that there might be something they can do for you. |
| Directive | a part of us wants to always improve and be better |
| Rogers: | developed a type of therapy he had a non-directive approach. He believes nobody knows more about the clients problems more than the client. |
| “love”. | Romantic love came in late during the dark ages, in some royal courts from Europe, and influenced what we now know as |
| Marriage=Passionate love | to marry someone who you are crazy in love with, you stay with the person that you feel are most passionate about. |
| Nepal | big crisis in the country because a guy fell in love with a women, parents didn’t like it because he was royalty, so they wanted him to marry someone of his own status, instead of following tradition. |
| Passionate love | cant wait to be away from your love the honeymoon stage. |
| Companionate love | the love that lasts is the companionate love, the other person becomes like a very close friend, conjugal love. But in our culture we tend to focus on the passionate love. |
| Resist Pressure : PERSISTENT IDENTITY SYSTEM | one way they resist pressure is by creating a way of identity |
| Geography:EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION | Ex:mexico/American south west- yakees, they were able to keep their identity because of geography, the places where they lived, |
| Economic Autonomy | they were not depended on the white man for survival. Ex:Benito Juarez- became president of mexico, he was beloved in mex because he was an indian. |
| Exploiting Balance | : ex:Cortez- |
| Tarahumara: | if it’s so low and so spread out it becomes difficult for conquers to get you all together. |
| • Psychological resources and identity Relevance of own culture | : Australian Aboriginals |
| Desirable alteranative | Roman Empire: tolerant to the cultures and religions that they would take over, they would let them do their thing as long as they would do their job, or what they were told to do. |
| Historical Pedigree | more likely to hang on to your culture, if you are convince that your culture in terms of history, your more likely to resist other cultures. |
| Russia/USSR: | when soviet union collapse, they began to have all of the fighting in different parts of Russia, because groups were different. |
| Conquest: | Cortez goes into the new world and overpowers the Aztecs. Involuntary culture contact. |
| Migration: | Voluntary & involuntary. Africa- SLAVERY-leaving Africa involuntary, People coming to the United States Voluntary. |
| Tourism: | ecotourism, sex tourism, medical tourism. |
| Study | vary in the program and have exposure to the culture. People from other countries come to the united states to study |
| Work: | there’s limitation to how involved you are in the culture |
| Cultural Imperialism | you can control without being there. Ex: cigarettes- cultural attachment, you put the name of something that appears to be more American. Movies, music, clothes, etc. |
| adjustment psychological | Psychological: You might feel like you never fit it, feeling good about the difference and being able to interact with the people within the culture. |
| adjustment behavioral | Behavioral: straight forward, if you are a student and receive a scholarship to go to the US to study, then you go to US and do your study, and get use to how people do their things in that country. |
| Social Support | HOST & INTRA-GROUP: how does the country welcomes immigrants? CANADA. |
| Intra Group Support | Guy in mexico, learns Spanish, look at it in a positive way, but then you lose interest. |
| Universal- | has the flexibility to adjust in any culture. |
| Cultural Fit- | you assign someone who has certain personalities to certain cultures. |
| Marginalism: | : Mexicans, come to US and then they changed the way US was ruled. |
| Bicultural- | both cultures |
| Acculturated person | becomes more of the new culture |
| Traditional person | Rejects new cultural |
| Marginalize: | Doesn’t adapt to new culture, and starts losing his old culture |
| Incongruity : | : it will occur when you have a group that wants to become the way you are telling them they should be like. |
| Origins in western Europe and can be traced to | Sigmund Freud. |
| patients were more free when they under hypnosis. psychoanalytic model | Sigmund Freud. |
| Carl-Rogers | developed a client-centered approach to psychoanalysis techiques |
| Psychotherapy | is spread out around the country these people try to incorporate something about their culture |
| Malaysia: | religion has been incorporated to psychotherapy, such as prayer and focusing on verses of the Koran that address “worry”. It says that religious psychotherapy can be more effective on anxiety disorders and depression |
| China: | Taoist and Confucian principles are embedded. Verses form Taoist writings that highlight main principles such as restricting selfish desires, learning how to be content, and learning to let go, are read and reflected on by the patient. |
| Arab- | because of sex-mix point of view they had, group therapy wasn’t successful. |
| Seeking treatment: | • Asians stay in treatment longer than European clients • Over a six year period those using ethnic-specific mental health services were more likey to return for treatment and stayed in treatment for a longer period. |
| Barriers to seeking Treatment-asians | Asians: Shame, loss of face, active avoidance of morbid thoughts, attributions of causes of mental illness to biological factors and fear of a system not set up to deal well with cultural differences. |
| Barriers to seeking Treatment-african americans | African American: rely on their own willpower to confront problems |
| Barriers to seeking Treatment-native americans | • Native Americans: sickness comes form disharmony with oneself, ones community and nature. |
| Barriers to seeking Treatment-chicanos | Chicanos: they feel shame, weakness of character, and disgrace |
| Barriers to seeking Treatment-asian | Asian americans:first seekers are extended family and folk healres. |
| Barriers to seeking Treatment-latino | Latino: evil spirits, cure problems by church and not with mental professionals. |
| Barriers to seeking Treatment- Arab | Arab-informal systems of support, such as the extended family or traditional healers. |
| Recent immigrant issues: | |
| Asians & Arabic-treatment issues | they value respect for parents |
| treatment issues-puerto rican | expteced their doctor to be active and concrete in dispensing advice or prescribing medication |
| Shaman | spiritual ceremony may prove to be a more effective treatment of the culture-bound syndrome SUSTO than the cognitive-behavioral approach typically used in the US. |
| • Ethnicity | people feel more comfortable but they look like them and think like them |
| African-american & Caucasion-clinicals | ethnic matching did not preditct better overall functioning. |
| Indigenous Healing | • Therapeutic beliefs and practices that are rooted within a given culture. • Heavy reliance on family and community networkds as both the context and instrument for treatment. |
| • Saudi Arabia: | family and community to protect the disturbed individual |
| • Korea | to reconnect and reintegrate the individual with members of family |
| • Nigeria | solve problems in the context of a group |
| • Reiki | - universal life energy-japenese |
| • Qigong- | “flow of air”- Chinese |
| • Prana | -“life force”- |
| • Vang | he thought he had spirits, he used both the western prespective and the non-western healing method. |
| • Identity: | social group of shich an individual sees himself or herself to be part of |
| • Cultural identity | individuals psychological membership in a distinct culture. |
| • Identity denia | social group of shich an individual sees himself or herself to be part of |
| • Cultural identity: | individuals psychological membership in a distinct culture. |
| • Identity denia | an individual is not recognized as a member of a group with which he or she identifies. |
| • Cultural frame switching: | multiple cultural systems in their minds, and access one or the other depending on the context they are in. |
| • Malpass and Kravitz | face recognizion- people recognized better faces of their own race. |
| • Daido Murasawa and Chou | Japanese andkoreans, fornt view, profile and three-quarter view, japan= large eyes, small mouths and small chins. Korea- large eyes, small and high nose, thin and small faces. |
| • Wheeler and kim-korean | attractive faces are more socially and intellectually competent better adjusted, more sexyally interesting. |
| • French and americans had significantly higher ratings than the Japanese | no love commitment and siclosure maintenance. |
| • American, german and japenese: | valued more in US romantic love. |
| • Mexicans love | rated love less positive |
| • South, southeast, east asia | higher on preoccupied romantic attachment. |
| • India | arranged marriage |
| • 300 years ago- | love the person you marry, not marry person you love. |
| • Multicultural- | difference don’t arise until they have children |
| • Capitulation- | ability and willingness to give up one’s own cultural behaviors and accept the others position occasionally |
| • Compromise- | finding a mutual point, with both partners |
| • Coexistence | process by which both partneres live with their respective differences by accepting each other “as they are” in their marriage |
| • Alternating way | partners take turns in adapting their cultural behaviors |
| • Mixing way- | take some behaviors and customs from both cultures |
| • Creative adjustment | - invent a completely new set of behavior pattersn after deciding to give up their respective cultural norms |
| • Cooperation- | refers to people’s ability to work together toward common goals. |
| • Americans- individuals | more tokens for them |
| • Equality- | equal division of tokens |
| • Aggression | any act or behavior that intentionally hurts another person. |
| • Intercultural adaptation | refers to how people change their behaviors or ways of thinking in a new cultural environment |
| • Intercultural adjustment | - which refers to the subjective experiences people have as they adapt their behaviors and thinking |
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