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| high incidence among Hmong men occurring within the first 2 years of being in the U.S. Symptoms include labored breathing, screams, and frantic movements. The person is in apparently good health but go to sleep and died without waking. |
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| disorders specific to a cultural group or society but not easily given a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis. These illnesses or afflictions have local names with distinct culturally sanctioned beliefs surrounding causation and treatment. |
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| a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, esp. among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practice divination and healing. |
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| coincides with the sudden death syndrome of Hmong men and also Holocaust victims that did not die; they question “Why should I live when so many others died?” and “Why should I sleep comfortably here in America while the people I left behind suffer?” |
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| I can’t quite put my finger on how the textbook is defining it, but I will look again in the morning – my brain is tired. |
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| Medicine characterized by the treatment of the whole person, taking into account mental and social factors, rather than just the physical symptoms of a disease. |
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| Puerto Ricans believe in this type of healing/spirits where the spirits can have major impacts on people residing in the physical world. |
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| animating force in life, represented by such images as breath, wind, vigor, and courage. The infusion and drawing out of spirit in in one’s lie. Active & passive process. Innate and unique to all persons. |
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| teaching that human beings are part of a holistic fabric – they are interconnected and should be oriented toward ‘collective’ rather than ‘individualistic’ survival |
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| the Asian culture focus on moving to higher states of consciousness can enhance perceptual sensitivity and clarity, concentration, and sense of identity as well as emotional, cognitive, and perceptual processes which in turn frees a person from the negative pathogenic forces. |
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| originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native |
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