Mental Health Care Culture

Culture Culture refers to the shared set of values, norms, and beliefs of a specific group. Common social groupings including trained adults in the same profession, youths participating in the same sport, and people with common religious beliefs have their own cultures. It is clear that social contexts and cultures are the key determinants that change the mental health services that minorities use while shaping their mental health in the process. The minorities may be prevented from receiving proper care and utilizing and accessing care in the event of a cultural misunderstanding between the clinician and the patient, disintegration of mental health services, or clinician bias (Quigley, 2007). With an ostensibly endless range of individual
This implies that different people from different cultures find ways of reporting their symptoms in a culturally acceptable way. Different cultures have marked differences in the way that they present their symptoms. For instance, Asian patients are more expected to report their somatic signs like dizziness. However, they have a tendency of not reporting their emotional symptoms even though they always acknowledge that they have the emotional symptoms. This supports the perception that patients in dissimilar cultures tend to selectively present or express their symptoms in culturally acceptable ways (Quigley,
These cultures evidently shape the interaction of the clinician and the mental health patient through organization and financing of services, treatment, and diagnosis. One can easily lose sight with the influence that culture has when it comes to physical and mental health treatment until they leave the country. For instance, when vacationers from the United States visit some distant frontiers, they often find themselves caught up in miscommunications and treatments that are outwardly unorthodox. This often happens when they seek treatment in the event of sudden deterioration in their mental health (Verbitsky,