Define main elements of culture Name and describe how culture impacts cognition Name and describe how culture influences feelings or the affe
Learning Objectives:
- Define main elements of culture
- Name and describe how culture impacts cognition
- Name and describe how culture influences feelings or the affective domain
- Name and describe how culture shapes behavior
Introduction & course overview; overview of mental health and minorities in the United States; Definitions of Culture Assigned Readings: Eshun and Gurung, Chapter 1; Jones Thomas & Schwarzbaum: Chapter 1
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PSY 330
MENTAL HEALTH IN AMERICAN MINORITIES
INTRODUCTION
Hispanics are 20% of the US population
African-Americans are 13% of the US population
6% of the US population are Asian-Americans
3% of the US population are Jewish
58% Non-Hispanic WHITES
The Non-Hispanic White population has been decreasing while the Non-White population has nearly doubled since 1990.
INTRODUCTION
Median Non-Hispanic White household income= $89,050
Median Hispanic household income= $65,540
Median income for African-American household: $56,490
Median income for Asian-American household:$108.700
The Median household income across all ‘races’ and ethnicities: $80,610
INTRODUCTION
How ethnic groups and minorities in the United States DIFFER from or CORRESPOND with both (1) each other and (2) the majority group……
In the ways they experience and respond to stress and GENERATE or RESIST psychopathology.
INTRODUCTION
Course will examine:
What factors in each group dispose toward greater RECEPTIVITY or OPPOSITION to change-oriented interventions
TWO PERSPECTIVES:
THE MELTING POT
THE CROSS-CULTURAL MODEL
MELTING POT
Various cultural groups surrender their ethnic heritage within the span of a few generations after arrival on the US, assimilating with the dominant culture, adopting its values and forms of behavior, and while contributing to the overall cultural blend, no longer remaining distinct from it.
CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
There are real and fundamental differences in values, role concepts, behavioral patterns, forms of expression, and cognitive styles that must be acknowledged before effective understanding can occur.
Concept of time
Self-perceptions
Family relations
Work and Professional life
Etc.
MENTAL HEALTH
FACT: Mental health problems of ethnic minorities require new paradigms to be developed.
Sensitivity to:
Language
Values
Concepts of illness and healing
Professional discontinuities
Etc.
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