Individualistic Approach In Health Care

"Activity Theory"

Activity theorists argue that psychological phenomena are formed as people engage in socially organized activity. Practical, socially organized activity is the primary cultural influence on psychology. Activity theorists maintain that activities such as science, schooling, art, writing, and reading stimulate distinctive kinds of psychological phenomena - e.g., communicating stimulates thinking. Activities do not express pre-formed, natural cognitive, emotional, or personality characteristics of the individual. On the contrary, artistic, literary, scientific, educational, and recreational activities generate psychological functions.

"Individualistic Approach"

This individualistic approach defines subculture as the outcome
phrases which include culture, social institutions, social situations, school, work, and government need to be used with the understanding that they denote the activities (and the products of activities) of people instead of reified entities.

 Importance of ethno psychology in health care:

• Heighten awareness of ways in which their own faith system encounters with illness, suffering and death

• Foster understanding, respect and appreciation for the individuality and diversity of patients beliefs, values, spirituality and culture regarding illness, its meaning, cause, treatment, and outcome.
• Strengthen in their commitment to relationship- centered medicine that emphasizes care of the suffering person rather than attention simply more to the patho physiology of disease, and recognizes the physician as a dynamic component of that relationship.
• Facilitate in recognizing the role of the hospital chaplain and the patient's clergy as partners in the health care team in providing care for the patient.
• Encourage in developing and maintaining a program of physical, emotional and spiritual self-care therapies.

 Reasons for emerging concept of ethno
These beliefs and values are convictions about how a person should be, what is the right way to behave, and how one should be in the world. This is the link between the larger worldview of a culture and the individual psychological functioning of any given person. Mental health can be said to be the degree to which a person is able to fulfill the cultural expectations of his society (Fiske, et al, 1998; Markus and Katayama 1991; Saint Arnault, 1998).
It is also believed that illness and disease arise within a cultural and social context. culture offers the framework within the meaning of illness, and the vital care or cure that is