PSYC 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Aokigahara, Homophobia
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Cross-cultural sensitivity: the knowledge, awareness and acceptance of other cultures. Culture helps people make sense of death. Experienced policy restrictions when gathering around a family member. Felt restricted in traditional practices as smudging. Felt disrespected and victims of racism by health care providers. Tmt suggests that cultures offer their members worldviews that allow them to better cope with the fear of death. Offers 2 routes to feeling transcendent of death: Cultures allow us to feel literally immortal by giving conceptions of a soul that continues beyond death. Offers symbolic immortality by providing avenues for our identity and contributions to be preserved after physical death. Society and culture define death and dictate our responses. Shame: similar to guilt, less to do with empathy and more with self standards, can lead to the comparison of oneself with standards or ideals. Factors of a shameful death: compromised honour of family, behavioural, sexual or social improperness, shameful fatal illness (hiv/aids)
