Diverisity Flashcards
(22 cards)
How is diversity defined in ppt?
A range of different things
What can affect health, wellbeing, and engagement in meaningful activities?
Recognition, respect, and integration
What are some forms of diversity?
Gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, race, tribe, culture, ethnicity, lifestyle and physical and mental state of health.
What is a person’s culture?
A learned behaviour, shared experiences, beliefs and values
What is a collective commonality?
The shared experiences, values, beliefs or characteristics that connect individuals within a group or community
What is culture NOT?
Ethnicity or race
What is cultural competence?
The ability to understand, respect, and effectively work with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.
What is cultural deconstructiveness?
Intentional attitudes, policies and practices that are destructive to cultures and consequently individuals within that culture.
What is cultural incapacity?
Lack of capacity to support minority ethnic clients or staff due to extremely biased beliefs and paternal attitudes towards those of not mainstream culture.
What is cultural blindness?
The belief that service/helping approaches traditionally used by the dominant culture are universally applicable regardless of race or culture.
What is assimilation?
The social process of absorbing one cultural group with another, sometimes losing aspects of the original identity in the process.
What is cultural proficiency?
Holding culture in high esteem, seeking to add to the knowledge of culturally competent practices through research, influence relationships, and promoting self-determination.
What is cultural pre-competence?
The desire to deliver quality services and a commitment to diversity by hiring minority staff, initiating training and recruiting black leaders, but lacking information on how to maximize these capabilities can be tokenism.
What is tokenism?
The superficial symbolic inclusion of individuals from underrepresented or marginalized groups without genuinely valuing their contributions or addressing systemic inequalities.
What is cultural competence?
The acceptance and respect for difference, continual self-assessment, careful attention to dynamics of difference, expanding knowledge/resources and adaptation.
How do OTs learn cultural competence?
Listen, explain, acknowledge and discuss, recommend, and negotiate.
What is cultural humility?
An acknowledgement of one’s own barriers to true intercultural understanding.
What are characteristics of cultural humility?
Lifelong learning, recognition of power dynamics, openness, self-awareness, supportive interaction, self-reflection and self-critique.
What does the LEARN model stand for?
L: listen with empathy and understanding, E: explain your perception and strategy, A: acknowledge and discuss differences, R: recommend treatment within cultural parameters, N: negotiate agreement.
Define 3 responsibilities of a patient in the South African context.
Provide accurate health information to healthcare providers.
Follow treatment plans and health advice responsibly.
Respect healthcare staff and fellow patients.
List 5 types of services directed at primary health care.
Health promotion
Disease prevention
Rehabilitation
Basic curative services
Maternal and child health services
Implications on assessment if it’s not culturally appropriate (6)
1) inappropriate intervention
2) no personal meaning to client
3) not therapeutic
4) negative influence on occupational performance
5) non compliance to treatment
6) mistrust and little respect
