Sociocultural psychology Flashcards
What is the LEDS?
The life events and difficulties schedule - the gold standard method for assessing for psychosocial stressors.
The researchers elicit stressful life events and put a rating on them. It involves the researches assessing the impact in the context of current social stressors and the patients self-perspective (contextual rating of social adversity).
Describe some torts that a person could be found guilty of in civil court?
Negligence, slander, libel and tresspass
On the Holmes and Rahe social readjustment scale what are the 3 most stressful life events?
- Death of a spouse
- Divorce
- Marital separation
What are Hayward and Bright’s 4 recurring themes behind stigma of mental illness?
- Responsibility
- Dangerousness
- Disruption of social interaction
- Poor prognosis
Fromm-Reichmann proposed which social theory of schizophrenia?
Schizophrenogenic mother
What did the Willowbrook study give?
Live hepatitis OR hepatitis globulins + live virus - administered to children
Hepatitis viral material was taken from an infected children
Saul Krugman claimed he consented the parents “meticulously”
What is assimilation?
Partial adaption of a new countries culture without giving up one’s identity/culture
Enculturation is the act of learning a culture through exposure to families, friends, teachers and TV (this occurs irrespective of migration).
Pathological fear of the cold and wind because of its ability to cause importence, fatigue and death is?
Pa-leng
Who proposed the biopsychosocial model?
George Engel
Jikoshu-Kyofu
A Japanese culture bound syndrome with excessive fear of omitting bad bodily odours
- included in broader Japanese culture bound syndrome of Taijin-Kyofu - social anxiety due to physical characteristics (includes blushing etc)
What was the Changing Minds campaign by RCPsych?
Encouraged patient advocacy in the context of stigma
What were Charaka’s medical principles that doctors should show?
4C’s
Confidentiality
Compassion
Caring practice
Continued professional development
Define ethnicity?
Shared historical, linguistic, cultural identity of a community, group or nation
- note there may be shared genes however ethnicity does not
directly describe this
Who argued that suicide may be explained by society?
Emil Durkheim
Other sociologists were Karl Marx, Max Weber and August Comte
What is the Jarman index?
A scoring system assessing social deprivation in the community.
Generally not accepted outside of the UK