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This term refers to adjusting behavior or language to fit into dominant cultural norms, often causing stress.
What is code-switching?
Meditation originated from this country.
What is India?
This word describes emotional or psychological well-being that can be influenced by life experiences.
What is mental health?
This concept explains how race, gender, and class can overlap to shape someone’s experiences.
What is intersectionality?
PTSD wasn't added to the DSM(Diagnositc and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) until 1980. This war had the highest number of veterans diagnosed with PTSD.
What is the Vietnam War?
Children often learn how to handle emotions by watching their parents use these, such as talking, relaxing, or asking for help.
What are coping skills?
This internalized belief can lead individuals to adopt negative stereotypes about their own racial group.
What is internalized racism?
A strong part of the Hawaiian culture is thier connection to this Hawaiian word that means land
What is 'aina?
This term refers to stressful or painful experiences that can impact not just one person, but also their children and grandchildren.
What is generational (or intergenerational) trauma?
This pillar of the Black community often serves as both a spiritual and emotional support system.
What is the Black church?
In South Korea Kwa-byung is rooted in the suppression of anger and is characterized by a sensation of a mass in the chest, palpitations, flushing, and fear of impending death. This syndrome is known as...
What is "Anger syndrome"?
Research shows that children whose parents experienced high levels of stress or trauma may have increased risk for anxiety or depression due to changes in this biological response system that controls how the body reacts to stress.
What is the stress response system?
This cultural expectation of being strong and not showing vulnerability is often referred to as this in the Black community.
What is the Strong Black Woman/Strong Black Man stereotype?
In Japan there are people suffering from a mental illness with an intense social phobia defined by the fear that one's body, appearance, or actions will offend or embarrass others.
What is "Taijin Kyofusho" or Body Phobia?
This concept explains how behaviors, beliefs, and emotional patterns are passed down through families without being physically inherited like genes.
What is social learning (or learned behavior)?