Cultural Variation Of Mental Disorders

Interacting with patients of diverse backgrounds and origins requires physicians to be highly culturally aware so as to create a trust between themselves and their patients. There are many aspects of a patient’s life that may manifest into their overall health, such as the social determinants of health. Culture may play a vital role in a person’s social outlook on life, and understanding cultural disparities is essential in delivering the highest level of patient care. Being culturally unaware hinders a physician from being able to treat patients from diverse backgrounds. Therefore, being culturally competent as well as having the skills to deal with cultural disparities effectively equips a physician to be able to travel anywhere in the world and deliver patient care as well as deliver patient care to a larger population within their own

Cultural diversity in the medical field is, at times, greatly hindered because of religious beliefs, language barriers, and the hierarchies of diverse cultures and these have the propensity to affect the continuity of care for the patients. “Every person has different aspects that constitute their identities, according to how they see themselves….This means that seeing an individual in terms of

THE IMPACT OF CULTURE ON MENTAL HEALTH AND HOW THIS CAN AFFECT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEN THE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER AND THE CLIENT

The Heritage Assessment Tool is designed to “give nurses an understanding of the patient’s traditional health and illness beliefs and practices so that culturally appropriate interventions can be initiated. The tool is a series of twenty nine questions. These twenty nine questions are designed to determine a patient’s ethnic, cultural, and religious background,” (Flowers, D.L., 2005). Within this paper, the author will summarize the assessment results of three different families, all varying in ethnic backgrounds and culture. These results will then be used to elaborate on how a nurse would

The disparities break down among Asian American necessary to bypass culture competency, the language barrier, the adaptation of tradition and modern Western medicine, attached to the circular arena of advantages and disadvantages functions of living in America. The culture competency of ethnic minorities soars with cultural differences and multicultural patients requiring healthcare providers to demand a necessary skills for all healthcare providers to facilitate structure and delivery the caring for all foreign-born Asian Americans and as well as the American-born Asian Americans (Park, Chesla, Rehm, Chun, 2011). The traditions and culture values the Asian American has brought to the United States of America has form a transition of herb

|Application: |Because of differences between cultures, patients’ behaviors and beliefs may be different from one’s own. |

Cultural competency is important when caring for patients whose culture is different than yours. A person’s background, upbringing, and set of beliefs shape the way they interact with healthcare personnel, guide the way they ask for and receive help, and play a role in their understanding and approach to their health. It is important to understand where the patient is coming from so that they can get the most out of their health care experience and ultimately have “improved health outcomes” (Brannon 2009, p. 4). This concept is especially important nowadays not only because the demographics of the United States is continually changing, but also due to the fact that these diverse groups tend to “maintain their cultural uniqueness” as opposed

Pediatric Nurse Practitioners will care for patients from a multitude of diverse cultures. This care requires an in-depth cultural understanding. Knowledge of cultures and learned skills are vital to provide effective quality care. The ever-changing demographics and disparities in health care present as challenging. Providing cultural competent care is the essential core in today’s vast populations in the United States. Lack of culturally knowledgeable care impacts care outcomes.

Going to a different country or area of the world can open up anybody’s eyes to see that culture makes a huge impact on the understanding and practices of healthcare that seem to be so common to other areas of the world. When a person lives in one country their whole life, that person may not realize how different the life they live is from someone in a foreign country. If a person is going to receive treatment from someone with a different cultural background, they should be expected to get treatment to respects their own culture. Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences having such a diverse variety of students has their own cultural competency definition that states “effectively and comfortably communicate across cultures

Therefore, one does not prescribe only to a narrow window, rather they manifest characteristics of numerous different group identities. These influences affect how we perceive, respond to, and retain experiences, thus helping or hindering our environment whether in be at home, work, or in the general public. For this journal, I will focus on some of the social and cultural influences I have personally witnessed in the healthcare setting and my perception of its effect on patient care.

In any case, providing competent care to a patient of a different culture must first start with an understanding of the culture itself (Potter & Perry, 2011). Culture is

Culture has a great effect on attitudes toward therapy. According to the National Institution of Mental Health each individual or groups of people bring a variation of beliefs to the therapeutic setting such as communicating what issues to report, types of coping styles, social support, and cultural stigma towards mental health. More often it is culture that bears on whether or not an individual will seek help. For example there is a widespread tendency to stigmatize mental illness in Asian countries. People with mental illness are considered dangerous and create social distance and

There are many diverse cultures when caring for a patient. Even within individual family, there is a high risk that living in the United States affects the family 's beliefs and behavior which leads back to the cultural diversity. The Middle East, a big factor is that communication is mandatory to be two way, meaning one may need to share information about themselves in order for the other to share information about their own self. In

While caring for patients from different backgrounds, I have gained a broader understanding of how different cultures view

Exploring research findings of ASD etiology and epidemiology in non-western cultures in developing countries. This will determine whether the DSM is culturally sensitive to other parts of the world. Does the DSM take into account different conceptual social constructs of mental health from diverse cultures? The manual mentions that professionals should take into account the patients social and cultural surroundings when making a diagnosis of a mental disorder, but really is that enough to become a revolutionary universal tool?