Adolescent Family
The process by which an individual develops a new cultural identity and becomes like the members of the dominant culture
Assimilation
Blended Family
Cohabiting Family
Within the delivered care the nurse understands and attends to the total context of the client’s situation and uses a complex combination of knowledge, attitudes, and skills
Culturally competent
Care that demonstrates basic knowledge of and constructive attitudes toward the health traditions observed among the diverse cultural groups found in the setting
Culturally Sensitive
A worldview and set of traditions used and transmitted from generation to generation by a particular group; includes related attitudes and institutions
Culture
A disorder that occurs in response to transition from one cultural setting to another.
State of being disoriented or unable to respond to a different cultural environment because of its strangeness, unfamiliarity, or incompatibility to perceptions and expectations.
Culture Shock
Ethnicity
The belief that one’s own culture or way of life is better than that of others
Ethnocentricism
The differential treatment of individuals or groups
Discrimination
Family that includes the relatives of the nuclear family
(e.g., grandparents, aunts, uncles)
Extended Family
The basic unit of society that consists of those individuals, male or female, youth or adult, legally or not legally related, genetically or not genetically related, who are considered by others to represent their significant individuals
Family
Minority Groups
A family of parents and their offspring
Nuclear Family
A negative belief or preference that is generalized about a group and that leads to “prejudgment”
Prejudice
Single Parent Family
Assuming that all members of a culture or ethnic group are alike
Stereotyping
Usually composed of people who have a distinct identity and yet are related to a larger cultural group
Subculture
Traditional Family
Providing care within the differences and similarities of the beliefs, values, and patterns of cultures
Transcultural Nursing
Two-Career Family
People who have dual patterns of identification and cross two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values
Biculture
