Culture - answer✔- way of life for those who identify or associate with each other based on a
common purpose, need, or similarity of background
- totality of learned, socially transmitted beliefs, values, and behaviors that emerge from
members' interpersonal transactions
Acculturation - answer✔- socialization process by which minority groups learn and adopt of
certain aspects of dominant culture
Cultural Identity - answer✔- set of cultural beliefs with which one looks for standards of
behavior
Spirituality - answer✔- dynamic, conscious process characterized by two movements of
transcendence (i.e. beyond the limits of ordinary experience), either deep within the self (self-
reflection) or beyond the self (feeling connected to a higher power)
- expressed through adherence to a specific religion
Religiousness - answer✔- participation in a community of people gathering around common
ways of worshipping
- often defines one's relationship within a family and community
Self Determinism - answer✔- motivation to make choices based on personal goals, not to
please others or be rewarded
- includes the right to choose one's own health-related behaviors and right to refuse treatment
- complicated due to issues of competency, informed consent, safety
Competency - answer✔- the degree to which a patient can understand and appreciate the
information given during the consent process
- cognitive ability to process information at a specific time
- decision-specific (depends on complexity and type of treatment)
Informed Consent - answer✔- legal procedure to ensure that the patient knows the benefits
and risks of treatment
- requires competency, complicated in mental health setting
Voluntary Admission - answer✔- type of treatment in which the person retains full civil rights
- free to leave at any time, even against medical advice
Involuntary Commitment - answer✔- mandated treatment without the person's consent
- individual may be mentally disordered, a danger to themselves or others, or unable to provide
for their basic needs
Duty to Warn - answer✔- legal mandate to inform a forseeable victim about a patient's
potential violence
- judgment that the patient has harmed someone or is about to injure someone
Medical Battery - answer✔- intentional and unauthorized harmful or offensive contact
- treatment without informed consent
Harry Stack Sullivan - answer✔- interpersonal relations theorist
- emphasized the importance of human relationships instead of instincts and drives
Interpersonal Relations - answer✔- theory that emphasized relationships as the basis for
human development and behavior
- views health as dependent upon managing one's ever-changing physical, social, and life
experiences
Sigmund Freud - answer✔- psychoanalytic theorist
- studied personality development, concept of Id, Ego, and Superego
Psychoanalytic - answer✔- theory that studies the unconscious and personality development
- includes object relations, defense mechanisms, sexual instincts, transference, and
countertransference
Id - answer✔- part of the self that includes unconscious desires and primitive instincts
- pleasure principle (survival mechanism)
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