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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development and Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development
Published in Cathy Laver-Bradbury, Margaret J.J. Thompson, Christopher Gale, Christine M. Hooper, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2021
Piaget described two processes that an individual will use in its attempt to adapt to the environment Assimilation: the process of using or transforming the environment so that it can be placed into pre-existing cognitive structures.Accommodation: the process of changing cognitive structures to accept something from the environment. Both processes are used simultaneously and alternately throughout life. As schemes become more complex, they are termed ‘structures’, and they become organised in a hierarchical manner from general to specific.
An uncomfortable intimacy
Published in Alan Bleakley, Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice, 2020
In contrast to the assimilation model, the medical accommodates other discourses such as the psychological, sociological and anthropological, as one amongst a number of explanatory approaches. Here, the political and the medical have a benign relationship in which the medical is the listener and the political the speaker, often of the voice of the oppressed. Medicine offers its expertise in a collaborative gesture in support of common wealth and furthers its democratization.
Virgin soil theory, boarding schools, and medical experimentation
Published in Joanna Ziarkowska, Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes, 2020
As David S. Jones remarks, these attempts to place responsibility for tuberculosis on Native Americans mirror earlier behavioral explanations of Native American deaths from smallpox (135).28 This aggressive strategy of emphasizing unsanitary conditions of life on reservations, while at the same time ignoring the factors that had created them, reveals the foundations of settler-colonialism that justifies its operations with white supremacy. Whether with the use of hereditary explanation, virgin soil, or blood quantum, it is always inevitably racialized Indigenous bodies that are responsible for the disease and the conditions that increase its incidence. The cure, according to physicians and social reformers, comes in the form of assimilation through cultural education. Ironically, the educational project of creating off-reservation boarding schools will become the very source of contagion for otherwise healthy Indigenous students.
Cultural Marginalization and Mental Health
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2023
The representative of the World Health Organization’s Health Promoting Hospital Task Force on Migrant-friendly hospitals and Culturally Competent Health Care, Antonio Chiarenza, in his presentation to the WHO Europe conference in 2005, stated, “even when services are available, and access is granted, migrants (and minority groups) might not use them because they do not know about or understand them, or because the services offered are not adequate to their cultural and religious beliefs, or because of low levels of cultural competence among health professionals” (Mac Gabhann, 2012, p. 27). Therefore, the number of people from minority groups with mental health conditions needing care may be higher than that recorded by NAMI. The challenges of assimilating these groups within the healthcare system and providing appropriate care may be more significant than we perceive.
You Being New Can Be Hard on Me Too: Considering the Veteran Employee during Newcomer Socialization
Published in Human Performance, 2022
Allison A. Toth, Alexandra M. Dunn, Linda R. Shanock, Amanda C. Sargent, Kathryn A. Kavanagh, Stephanie Leonard
We argue veteran employees are better able to serve as social capital resources for newcomers to the extent the veteran is assimilated into the organization. Assimilation is an ongoing, nonlinear process that fluctuates over the course of one’s organizational membership and involves establishing and maintaining a meaningful organizational membership (Gailliard, Myers, & Seibold, 2010). Researchers have proposed seven aspects of assimilation that affect involvement and integration into an organization: familiarity with supervisors, familiarity with coworkers, acculturation, recognition, involvement, job competency, and role negotiation (see Gailliard et al., 2010 for more information on each dimension). In this study, we are interested in veterans’ overall assimilation as we expect more assimilated veterans (i.e., those who maintain all seven categories) should provide newcomers with the best and most useful information.
Race and Filipina/o drug use: rethinking ethnicity among Filipina/o Americans through drug consumption, racial profiling, and the social construction of ethnicity
Published in Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 2022
For drug treatment programs that incorporate culturally-appropriate strategies for treatment, providers must consider the shifting meanings of ethnicity, as users experience the environment around them, and remain skeptical of assimilation or acculturation models that tend to rely on static notions of ethnicity. Meanings of ethnic culture and their utility as a filter against drug use will differ by group. In this study, Filipina/os create and maintain a distinct Filipina/o American experience that involves drug use in California and reflects an awareness of meth usage and structural disadvantages in the Philippines. This allows them to reexamine ethnicity and its role in usage. For the interviewees, they remain committed to the idea of a distinct Filipina/o identity that does not reflect mainstream American values and norms, and they do not perceive meth use as a betrayal of ethnic identity but rather a reality in both California and the Philippines. Meth has become a global issue among Filipina/os, and dealing with it has become part of the culture. The meth epidemic reflects another of the multitude of ways that Filipina/os have historically faced oppression and how nation-state dynamics continue to exacerbate rather than alleviate their exploitation.