Critical Thinking Case Interview Essay

1) What are relevant considerations regarding service delivery with Older Adults?
a) Disease symptoms manifest differently across the lifespan thus requiring modifications to treatment approaches.
b) Clinicians reducing their biases that can impede their work with older adults, it is important for clinicians to examine their attitudes toward aging and older adults.
c) Client’s culture from awareness, sensitivity to aging and also influences from health, demographics, experiences to cultural beliefs.
d) Fear of being stigmatized and called “ crazy” (Barriers to service)
e) Physically (Lack of physical balance, Minimal physical ability like walking)
f) Cognitively (Confusion, amnesia, Dementia)

2) What is culture?
a) A group large group

of people that share behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group.

3) Why is culture is it an important consideration in all areas of MH/ CD provision?
a) It helps in helping meet the needs of the clients. Culture, upbringing, belief systems, language all play a role in the treatment. How therapy and mental illness is viewed in a specific community, how well the instructions are being understood, what the person's belief systems are, and how they're affected by treatment. It overall dictates the treatment outcome.

4) What are features of your cultural identity?
a) Personally I am African decent, from Central Kenya, I identify myself as a kikuyu, one of the many ethnic groups in Kenya and also one of the 68 different languages that are spoken in Kenya.