Identify the effect of culture on mental disorders and process of performing cultural and political assessments
What will be an ideal response?
Student responses should include
- culture may cause distress and psychological problems
- culture might influence a person's reaction to stress
- culture may influence which symptoms of a disorder are expressed in the content of the symptoms
- culture may reinforce certain forms of mental disorder
- mental health professionals must overcome the language barrier if one exists, obtain information about a client's culture, be culturally sensitive, and be aware of cultural variations in psychological problems
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What will be an ideal response?
According to Perry (1999), what order are the stages of reflective judgment?
a. Multiple thinking, dualistic thinking, commitment. b. Commitment, relativism, dualistic thinking. c. Relativism, commitment, multiple thinking. d. Multiple thinking, relativism, commitment.