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Transcultural Perspectives in Mental Health Nursing: Prepared By: Alfrey J. Corpuz, RN, MSN

This document discusses key concepts in providing culturally competent mental health care. It outlines five learning objectives focused on recognizing the importance of a patient's cultural values, beliefs, and practices when planning care. The document also distinguishes between disease and illness and discusses determinants of mental health. Additionally, it addresses concepts like ethnocentrism, shared decision making, historical trauma, assimilation strategies, and important factors for transcultural care like communication, spirituality, and experiences of pain. The overall document aims to help mental health nurses understand the influence of culture and provide evidence-based, culturally congruent care for diverse populations.

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Transcultural Perspectives in Mental Health Nursing: Prepared By: Alfrey J. Corpuz, RN, MSN

This document discusses key concepts in providing culturally competent mental health care. It outlines five learning objectives focused on recognizing the importance of a patient's cultural values, beliefs, and practices when planning care. The document also distinguishes between disease and illness and discusses determinants of mental health. Additionally, it addresses concepts like ethnocentrism, shared decision making, historical trauma, assimilation strategies, and important factors for transcultural care like communication, spirituality, and experiences of pain. The overall document aims to help mental health nurses understand the influence of culture and provide evidence-based, culturally congruent care for diverse populations.

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Transcultural Perspectives

in Mental Health Nursing

Prepared By: Alfrey J. Corpuz, RN,MSN


At the end of this session,
students will be able to:
• Recognize the importance of cultural values, beliefs, and practices when
planning and implementing mental health nursing care.
• Examine best practice treatment options in caring for culturally diverse
mental health clients.
• Understand the influence of culture on decisions about mental health care.
• Evaluate strategies to provide competent transcultural mental health
nursing care.
• Recognize the importance of evidence-based transcultural mental health
nursing research in caring for clients seeking mental health care in a
culturally congruent and competent manner.
Illness vs Disease
The distinction between
disease and illness is relevant to
mental health nursing care.
What is “Mental
Health”?
Mental Illness
is a condition that “disrupts a person's
thinking, feeling, mood, ability to
relate to others and daily functioning.”
National Alliance on Mental Illness
(NAMI) (2014)

Determinants of mental health:


1.social
2.psychological
3.biological factors
Ethnocentrism
• presents as subconscious disregard for
cultural differences; in its most severe
form, it presents as authoritarian”
(Sutherland, 2002, p. 280).

• can manifest as feelings of superiority or


discrimination with respect to one’s own
group or culture over another group or
culture.
Decision Making and Mental
Health Care
Shared Decision Making (SDM)
• encourages providers and consumers to
collaborate on mental health care for the
consumer.
• mental health care providers can offer
suggestions for treatment options
depending on the needs of the consumer.
Disparities in Mental Health Care

Stigma
- “a perceived negative attribute that
causes someone to devalue or think
less of the whole person.”
Disparities in Mental Health Care

Cultural pain
- is defined as feeling “insecure,
embarrassed, angry, confused, torn,
apologetic, uncertain, or inadequate
because of conflicting expectations of and
pressures from being a minority”
Disparities in Mental Health Care

Historical Trauma
- also referred to as Historical Unresolved
Grief or Disenfranchised Grieving.
- a collective complex trauma inflicted on a
group of people who share a specific group
identify or affiliation-ethnicity, nationality, and
religious affiliation.
Mental Health Care for
Immigrants
Mental Health Care for
Immigrants
Assimilation

Transmutation Five Different Separation


Strategies and
Outcomes of
Acculturation

Marginalization Integration
Culturally Competent
Mental Health Care
Cultural Blind Spot
Intrapersonal Reflection
Important Factors to Consider in
Transcultural Mental Health Nursing
1. Communication and Language
Important Factors to Consider in
Transcultural Mental Health Nursing
2. Spirituality
Important Factors to Consider in
Transcultural Mental Health Nursing
3. Experiences of pain

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