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Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College Self Care Cross Cultural Study
Overview:
Self-care is defined as “actions an individual might take in order to reach optimal physical and mental health” (GoodTherapy, 2019). Engaging in activities that you view as self-care should make you feel relaxed, rejuvenated or energized, rather than depleted, depressed, angry, or defeated. Self-care might seem selfish, however several studies show that individuals who engage in practices of self-care are more resilient and better able to cope with everyday challenges. Cultures also interpret and define self-care differently. What may be defined as self-care in one culture may seem like a burden in another. Sometimes it is hard to find the motivation to engage in self-care, even with all of these positive benefits. Therefore, it is especially important to have a self-care plan when we are in the midst of a global pandemic, economic crisis, and renewed interest in dismantling systemic oppression.
Instructions
- In your own words, what does self-care mean?
- How does your CULTURE define self-care?
- Growing up, how was self-care viewed within your family (did your parents practice self-care or talk to you about self-care)?
- Think of your weekly routine and describe what you do for self-care. If you don’t do anything, please state this.
- What are 2 things you want to start doing for self-care? Explain why you chose these and how you think it will help you achieve optimal physical and/or mental well-being.
- How can you motivate yourself to engage in self-care? Discuss 2-3 ways you will motivate yourself moving forward
Self-Care Resources:
part two
Instructions:
Please read the following scenario:
Myeshia, a clinical psychologist, is interested in examining the mental well-being of individuals who have had a close family member pass away from COVD-19. Since there is very little research on mental health in the midst of a pandemic, Myeshia decides that the best way to conduct this study is by conducting focus groups and comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences in the grief experience among participants from different racial/ethnic backgrounds. Myeshia uses obituaries and social media posts to recruit participants who identify as Asian, White, Black/African American and LatinX by telling them they are invited to participate in a study on coping during COVID. After she has recruited enough participants, Myeshia held 4 focus groups. Participants in the focus groups were from all different racial/ethnic groups (mixed-race focus groups). After participants come into the lab, Myeshia explains the purpose of the focus group is to discuss how everyone is coping with their mental and physical health during COVID and starts audio recording the focus group. About halfway through the focus groups Myeshia starts asking about how the participants are coping with losing someone in their family to COVID. A few participants are immediately upset and ask Myeshia how she knew they had family that passed away and complained that they were unaware this would be a topic in the focus group. Myeshia continues asking about the grieving and funeral process and one participant becomes visibly upset. The participant exclaims that she cannot answer the questions Myeshia is asking because in her culture, grief looks much different. Myeshia does not ask the participant to explain what she means and instead goes to the next question. Another participant asks if they can leave because they are feeling distressed talking about their grief. Myeshia says no and tells them they are not “allowed” to leave. Throughout the focus group, Myeshia notices that two of the participants didn’t say a word. When the focus group is over, Myeshia approaches the participants to ask why they didn’t participate and learns that English is their second language and they were having trouble understanding more of the questions.
After reading the scenarios, please answer the following questions:
- What is Myeshia’s research question?
- What type of question is it (descriptive, causal, consequence, or nondirective)
- Is the research quantitative or qualitative study? Explain why you chose this method
- How do the ethical guidelines for conducting APA research (Links to an external site.) relate to cross-cultural research in psychology?
- Discuss 2 specific principles that might be difficult to address when conducting research with participants from different cultures.
- Identify at least two things that would not be considered ethical in the above study and provide suggestions for ways to make the study more ethical. Be sure to use terms from the readings/videos.
- Now think about how this study might look if it was conducted in two different countries. Based on your readings and videos, what are some ethical issues a psychologist will need to consider?
- Reply to a classmate about their suggestions for #3 above. Do you agree/disagree with the analysis? Provide any suggestions you may have.
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