FOUNDATIONS READINESS PACK
◉Objective cues of mental health
ABCT . Answer: Appearance
Behavior
Cognitive function
Thought process
◉Delirium . Answer: Sudden onset
Altered consciousness
Rapid mood swings
Rapid, inappropriate, rambling speech
Can be reversed
Can cause fever, pain, low blood glucose, infection
◉Dementia . Answer: Slow and gradual onset
Flat agitation
Consciousness not altered
Repetitious speech
, Can't be reverse
Can cause HIV, chronic alcoholism, Alzheimer's
◉Ethnocentrism . Answer: belief in the superiority of one's own
ethnic group
◉Ethnicity . Answer: Associated with culture
Awareness of belonging to a group in which certain characteristics
differentiate from one group to another
◉Race . Answer: Identification of individual groups by shared
genetic heritage and biological or physical characteristics
◉Acculturation . Answer: Adapting to and acquiring another culture
◉Assimilation . Answer: Developing a new culture identity and
becoming like the dominant culture
◉Biculturalism . Answer: Identifies with two cultures
◉Biomedical cause of illness . Answer: Disease caused by bacteria,
viruses
Involves scientific theories