Definitions

Question 0

What is Enculturation?

Answer 0

Childhood culture socialization.

Question 1

What is culture?

Answer 1

Shared pattern of values and behaviours shared over time to guide the decisions and actions of a group.

Question 2

What is Acculturation?

Answer 2

Adopting and adapting to characteristics, a new culture.

Question 3

What is Assimilation?

Answer 3

Minority group adopts attitudes and customs of mainstream culture.

Question 4

What is Multiculturalism?

Answer 4

Many cultures existing within a society.

Question 5

What is Cultural Competency?

Answer 5

Ongoing process of growth and development.

Question 6

What is Invisible culture?

Answer 6

Less observable

Question 7

What is Collectivism?

Answer 7

Focus on family or the group.

Question 8

What is Health?

Answer 8

The balance of the person, both within one’s being–physical, mental, and spiritual.

Question 9

What is Allopathic?

Answer 9

• Modern care

- Conventional care

Question 10

What is Homeopathic?

Answer 10

• Traditional

- Folk

Question 11

What is aromatherapy?

Answer 11

Ancient science that uses essential plant oils to produce strong, physical and emotional effects in the body

Question 12

What is hypnotherapy?

Answer 12

The use of hypnosis to stimulate emotions and control involuntary responses such as blood pressure

Question 13

What is ayurvedic?

Answer 13

Four thousand-year-old method of healing originating in India.

Question 14

What is Qi gong?

Answer 14

Form of Chinese traditional medicine. It combines movement, meditation, and regulation of breathing.

Question 15

What is santeria?

Answer 15

A syncretic religion comprising both African and Catholic beliefs.

Question 16

What is voodoo?

Answer 16

A religion that is a combination of Christianity and African Yoruba religious beliefs.

Question 17

What is culture in the end-of-life?

Answer 17

Shapes values, beliefs, and practices. Is intensified by death.

Question 18

What are attitudes in the end-of-life?

Answer 18

Come from parents, grandparents, education and socio-economic status, religion.

Question 19

What are health care providers in the end-of-life care?

Answer 19

Must have knowledge to provide culturally competent end of life and palliative care.

Question 20

Strong feelings exist related to:

Answer 20

• Decision making (family, physician)
• Diagnosis (truth telling)
• Perceptions (suffering)
• Organ donation

Question 21

What is Deaf Culture?

Answer 21

Status within the culture does not depend on the level of hearing loss, but the attitude towards it.

Question 22

What is illness?

Answer 22

Imbalance of one’s being– physical, mental, and spiritual

Question 23

What is pain?

Answer 23

A universal human experience. However, there is a difference in how it is:

• Perceived
• Interpreted
• Treated

Question 24

What is threshold?

Answer 24

The level where a client describes as painful.

Question 25

What is tolerance?

Answer 25

Greatest level of pain

Question 26

Define bilingual.

Answer 26

Can speak 2 languages.

Question 27

Define bilingualism.

Answer 27

In Canada refers to English/French.

Question 28

Define translation.

Answer 28

Generally refers to written communication b/c translators deal with words written.

Question 29

Define Interpretation.

Answer 29

Involves the spoken word and refers to the process of verbal interaction between people who speak two different languages.

Question 30

Define deafness.

Answer 30

Loss of hearing functional and dependance upon visual communication.