ADEC Thanatology CT Exam Handbook Ch

ADEC Thanatology CT Exam Handbook Ch 21-27 Exam Questions and Answers Culturally meaningful thanatology practice - Correct Answers ✅1. recognizes the practitioner's own location in specific cultures of personal and professional experiences and practice settings, and seeks consultation from colleagues supporting rigorous questioning regarding cultural assumptions

• explores culturally mediated individual experience of death

and its impact using a multidimensional, dynamic understanding of culture as a force organizing roles, relationships, emotions and beliefs in everyday life, while connecting these to the flow of intergenerational time and to the wider society

• conducts a culturally informed appreciative inquiry into the

person and family experience and goals for life in the presence of death that is compassionate, strength-based, and accountable to family-determined goals

• Creates a collaborative contract for interventions that

closely flows the patient and family stated goals, applying and adapting appropriate, effective clinical tools

• recognizes both individual uniqueness in death and grief

responses and their interdependence based on gender, generation and unique relationships to the dying and deceased

• explores culturally meaningful resources for positive

change, identifying leverage points helping reduce distressing symptoms while also mobilizing relationship and environmental factors associated with positive coping 1 / 2

ADEC Thanatology CT Exam Handbook Ch 21-27 Exam Questions and Answers Valsiner's (2012) 4 independent dimensions of culture generating human development - Correct Answers ✅a.landscape and the natural world

• economic activities for survival
• human roles and relationships
• cultural symbols and meanings

Multidimensional approach to developing cultural competence (Sue & Sue, 2008) - Correct Answers ✅1.clinician awareness of attitudes and beliefs

• knowledge about cultural groups and their complexity
• clinical intervention skills with knowledge of how to best

adapt these to cultural beliefs and preferences Most culturally informed practice emphasize this main factor - Correct Answers ✅The practitioner's rigorous self- questioning about his or her own cultural biases in every clinical encounter because each creates a new unique configuration of clinician, patient and clinical context an appreciative inquiry - Correct Answers ✅a way of listening, learning, goal setting and planning designed to reduce suffering and distress while promoting positive developmental processes that mobilize positive adaptation and growth

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