Mental Health Nursing: Transcultural Care and Mental Health

Mental health nursing: transcultural
care and mental health
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Definition.....................................................................................................................................3
Overview of population...............................................................................................................3
Health care beliefs.......................................................................................................................4
Implication for care planning.......................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
For people it is necessary to maintain their mental health along with physical health. It is
because mental health is related to mind and brain. It states mental ability of person and how he
is able to understand things. However, mental health of people differs in culture as they follow
various beliefs and ethics. Also, it is influenced by certain health beliefs as well. Mental illness is
becoming a concern for people in recent times. It has highly affected on their physical health as
well. Stress, depression, etc. are some causes of mental illness. (Barker, 2017)
In this assessment it will be described about cultural health of GLBTI community in Australia.
Besides that, it will be discussed on health care beliefs followed by them and limitation to
implement care for this community (Foster et.al., 2019).
Definition
LGBT- GLBTI culture refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
Health care beliefs - it states that what people think about their health. It means that what
constitute their health, causes of illness, etc. these beliefs are laid down in culture.
Mental health – the level of psychological well being or state of emotional and behaviour well
being of person (Cleary et.al, 2016).
Overview of population
Australia is multi cultural society where people of various community and society lives. They
follow different values and ethics. Along with it, the culture is diversified into various states
and territory. This has led to building of community in different regions. However, it is identified
that mental health is depicted from ethics and beliefs which is followed. They vary from culture
to culture and highly influence on mental health. Besides that, it shapes the perception and
thinking level of people which is reflected by their mental health. In similar way, GLBTI
culture refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (Foster, , Roche & Furness, 2019) . This
culture came into existence in mid 1980. It is represented with an umbrella form of flag or sign.
The community represents a sense of diversity sexuality and gender identity based culture. it
has been analysed that Australia is most friendly nation of this culture. this is because here
around 79% of people said that homosexuality must be accepted by society. In addition,
Sydney is most friendly city for gay people. The community is spread within all over nation
and they are being given equal rights by Australian government. Moreover, people have also
accepted this culture within society (Happell et.al., 2019). They have become friendly with all
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