NURS 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Culture Shock, Ethnocentrism
26 May 2019
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Logistics: completing the application, letters of recommendation, academic transcripts, interviews, finding accomodations, attending orientations. Service and project preparation find out what you are doing and whom you are doing it with physical and mental preparations use compassion to identify larger systemic and organizational solutions. Adjusting to site and community satisfying basic physiological needs and safety realizing culture shock is normal. Emotional intelligence: when how one feels dictates how one acts choose to act respectively and responsibly despite fears and negative biases. Intercultural sensitivity: experience of difference moves from being reactive to adaptive, and perspectives shift from ethnocentric to ethnorelative less judgement and more acceptance. Attribution theory: different emotions are associated with different explanations of the words and actions of others. Independent view: individuals are self-contained and autonomous and their behaviour is primarily determined by internal attributes. Interdependent view: self is seen as more dependent on relationships with others and social groups.
