ch8 Flashcards
(41 cards)
What are psychosocial needs?
Needs that involve social interaction, emotions, intellect, and spirituality.
What is holistic care?
A type of care that involves caring for the whole person—the mind as well as the body.
What is masturbation?
To touch or rub sexual organs in order to give oneself or another person sexual pleasure.
What is sexual orientation?
A person’s physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction to another person.
What is gender identity?
A deeply felt sense of one’s gender.
What does bisexual mean?
A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction may be for people of the same gender or different gender.
What is cisgender?
A person whose gender identity matches his or her birth sex.
What does coming out refer to?
A continual process of revealing one’s sexual orientation or gender identity to others.
What is a cross-dresser?
Typically a heterosexual man who sometimes wears clothing and other items associated with women.
What does gay mean?
A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for people of the same sex.
What is heterosexual?
A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for people of the opposite sex; also known as straight.
What is a lesbian?
A woman whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for other women.
What does LGBT stand for?
Acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
What does LGBTQ stand for?
Acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.
What does queer mean?
A term used by some people to describe sexual orientation that is not exclusively heterosexual.
What is transgender?
A person whose gender identity conflicts with his or her birth sex.
What is transition in terms of gender?
The process of changing genders, which can include legal procedures, medical measures, telling others, and using new pronouns.
What does spiritual mean?
Of, or relating to, the spirit or soul.
What is reincarnation?
A belief that some part of a living being survives death to be reborn in a new body.
What is karma?
The belief that all past and present deeds affect one’s future and future lives.
What is a yarmulke?
A small skullcap worn by Jewish men as a sign of their faith.
Who are agnostics?
People who believe that they do not know or cannot know if God exists.
Who are atheists?
People who believe that there is no God.
