IN chapter 9

Process of adopting to and adopting a new culture

To become absorbed into another culture and adopt its characteristics

Kinship that extends to both the mother's and father's sides of the family

Integrated patterns of human behavior that include the language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beleifs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups

Adapting or negotiating with the patient/families to acheive benificial or satisfying health outcomes

Retaining and/or preserving relavant care values so patients are able to maintain their well-being, recover from illness, of face handicaps and or death

Recording, changing, or greatly modifying a patient's/familys' customs for a new, different, and benificial health care patern.

Process in which the health care professional continually strives to achieve the ability and availability to work effectively with individual, families, and communities

Using one's own values and customs as an absolute guide in interpreting behaviors

Feeling that a patient has after a healthcare worker disregards the patient's valued way of life

Care that fits people's valued life patterns and sets of meanings generated from the people themselves, sometimes thei differs from the professionals' perspective on care

Illnesses restricted to a particular culture or group because of its psychosocial characteristics

Insider or native perspective

Outsider's perspective

Shared identity related to social and cultural heritage such as values, language, geographical space, and radical characteristics.

Significant historical experiences of a particular group.

Tendency to hold one's own way of life as superior to that of others.

Nonblood kin; considered family in some collective cultures

Kinship that is limited to only the mother's side

Varfious ethnic, religious, and other groups with distinct characteristics from the dominant culture.

Distinct discipline developed by Leniningr that focuses of the comparative study of cultures to understand similarities and differences among groups of people

Attribute illness to natural, impersonal, and biological forces that casue alteration in the equilibrium of the human body

Starting out in a culture as a child

family limited to the father's side

beleive that an external agent, which can be human or non-human, causes health and illness

Significant social markers of changes in a person's life