MEDRADSC 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Acculturation, Childbirth, Postpartum Period
11 Oct 2018
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A group of people who share values, attitude, beliefs, norms that guide their thinking, decisions, and their actions in patterned ways. The existence of di erent cultures living side by side, small groups maintain culture. Makes the dynamics of interpersonal relations more challenging. Requires that we learn how to relate e ectively to people who may behave, think, and feel di erently from our own personal and cultural expectations. Increases the di culty in client relations for the many di erent helping professions. Nuclear vs extends family model: gender roles, family goals, priorities, role of the aged. Life: preferences for gender, access to family or con nement, circumcision, birth rituals. Death: death rituals, bereavement, how soon to bury, burial or cremation, gathering of family, grieving - noisy or quiet, religious observances, autopsy or no. Verbal: dominant language, dialect, contextual use of language, volume, tone, intonations, in ections, willingness to share thoughts and feelings.
