NUR 448

Culturally Relevant Mental Health Nursing

World Views

Beliefs and values held by people of a given culture about what is good, right, and normal

Independent World View Individualistic Values independence, autonomy, individuation, and

self-determination

Interdependent World View Collectivist Values interdependence, personal feelings, and

desires less relevant than adherence to roles, responsibilities, and relationships within family and group

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Culturally diverse nurse and patient

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Effects of explanatory models on illness experience and

practice

(Fig. 7-3)(Fig. 7-3)

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Explanatory Models

Document types of factors or events causing distressBalance

- Energy- Social- Hot/cold

Spiritual- Human- Non-human- Supernatural

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Explanatory Models, cont.

Environmental- Elements

- Negative forces

- Germs

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Idioms of Distress

Forms of experience and expression of distress Social Emotional Somatic Spiritual

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Ethnorelativism

Evaluating whether the theories being applied are relevant for the persons the nurse is helping

Allows nurses to provide care that is not bound by Western culture

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Cultural Translator

Facilitates ethno-relativism by- translating language- explaining health-related concepts related

to client culture Best when cultural translator closely resembles

the client (is from same geographical region, social class, and gender)

Culture Bound Syndrome- an illness caused by culture.

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