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Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 6th Edition by Mary Townsend
Edition 6ISBN: 978-0803638761Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 6th Edition by Mary Townsend
Edition 6ISBN: 978-0803638761 Exercise 1
Explain the concepts of incomprehensibility and cultural relativity.
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Elements related with individual's perception of mental illness:
There is no universal concept of mental illness, since such a concept is influenced by a number of cultural factors. However, in spite of the cultural factors, there remain definite elements which are related with an individual's perceptions of mental illness. In the year 2002, Horwitz categorized two of these elements as incomprehensibility and cultural relativity.
Incomprehensibility:
Incomprehensibility can be referred to as the incapability of the general people to comprehend the motivation or stimulation behind the behavior. When this general population fails to understand the comprehensibility or sense of behavior, they are probably to tag such behavior as mental illness. According to Horwitz, people attribute various labels of mental illness, when the rules, principles and considerations that they use to interpret behavior fail to conclude on any understandable stimulus behind an action.
Cultural relativity:
Cultural relativity deems that the rules, principles and understandings as mentioned by Horwitz, are pictured within an individual's specific culture. On the basis of one's cultural or social standards, behavior can be classified into either "normal" or "abnormal". Thus, a behavior which is identified as a confirmation of mental illness in a particular society may be considered normal in another society and the other way round.
There is no universal concept of mental illness, since such a concept is influenced by a number of cultural factors. However, in spite of the cultural factors, there remain definite elements which are related with an individual's perceptions of mental illness. In the year 2002, Horwitz categorized two of these elements as incomprehensibility and cultural relativity.
Incomprehensibility:
Incomprehensibility can be referred to as the incapability of the general people to comprehend the motivation or stimulation behind the behavior. When this general population fails to understand the comprehensibility or sense of behavior, they are probably to tag such behavior as mental illness. According to Horwitz, people attribute various labels of mental illness, when the rules, principles and considerations that they use to interpret behavior fail to conclude on any understandable stimulus behind an action.
Cultural relativity:
Cultural relativity deems that the rules, principles and understandings as mentioned by Horwitz, are pictured within an individual's specific culture. On the basis of one's cultural or social standards, behavior can be classified into either "normal" or "abnormal". Thus, a behavior which is identified as a confirmation of mental illness in a particular society may be considered normal in another society and the other way round.
Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 6th Edition by Mary Townsend
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