Question 1
Chinese people started visiting Australia in as early as 1800 with most of them been business people dealing with gold trade. With diminishing of gold, most of them settled to work as market gardeners or farm hands in the developed Australian firms. This led to their population growing in major towns in Australia leading to their cultural and religion been established in Australia. With the lifting of policy restricting the migration of non-European in 1970 the population of Chinese has increased (Bagnall, 2011). With many students and professional like doctors and nurse seeking citizenship, with free movement the Chinese population in Australia stands at866, 200.
Question 2
The Chinese people have strong beliefs on matters of medical cure and practices. The greatest been the role of the family in medical care which every medical practitioner should understand. The extended family of a patient has great influence with the oldest man been the decision maker (Leung, 2010). On matters of family interest and honor been more important than individual interest, he has to make the final decision. For instance, among the Chinese, a person’s behavior reflects on the family. With mental illness been a source of shame and guilt in China, a patient may be reluctant to discuss the symptoms.
Question 3
With the above culture, it is hard to diagnosis a patient due to the fact that a lot of information is withheld. A personal relationship is one of an effective communication model for a patient with mental illness. With this mode of communications patient will be able to take the nurse as a close friend and relate them to a member of the family and thus communication will be effective (Brunetto, Wharton & Shack lock, 2012). Among the challenge of this mode of communication is that the patient will always withhold emotionally. This will always affect the behavior of the patient towards the nurse in the expression of pain or improved progress in medication.
Question 4
Depression has been a challenge to many Chinese for a long time. This health issue is related to their workaholic feature where most of them spend a lot of time trying to achieve success in books or business (Anikeeva et al., 2010). Due to this issue been left unattended, it has led to many cases of suicide. With the reservation about mental illness from Chinese people the disease is treatable but the public education of facts about depression. Public education will educate the Chinese on how to avoid depression triggers and help them to open up to medical professionals as soon as possible in case it is identified.
Question 5
With the Chinese people regard to family honor a nurse should always be able to provide and promote care that puts patients at the center of his/her work. This practice involves patients, their family, and their carers in decisions like in our case the oldest male in the family. This is supposed to help them make informed and supported adoptions about their action and care. This practice is appropriate for the Chinese keeping in mind that this practice will help build a trusted patient-nurse relationship (Wong, Lam & Poon, 2010). With this, the patients will be able to trust the nurse and offer information that will quick the healing.
Question 6
With depression costing more than $790 annually, the government and private sector have established and developed several organizations to help a person with such an issue. In Melbourne, Anxiety Treatment Australia standouts to be of great help to Chinese with depression issues. With modern treatment methodology, it stands to be the best recovery and treatment Centre (Hollingworth, Burgess & Whiteford, 2010). The organization offers a variety of packages all aimed at dealing with depression as fast as possible. The organization has integrated its packages with modern technology to ensure the best output. With their after service facility they will keep a constant look on the patient to ensure stable living.
References
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Mellor, D., Carne, L., Shen, Y. C., McCabe, M., & Wang, L. (2012). Stigma toward mental illness: a cross-cultural comparison of Taiwanese, Chinese immigrants to Australia and Anglo-Australians.Journal of cross-cultural psychology, 0022022112451052.
Brunetto, Y., Farr-Wharton, R., & Shacklock, K. (2012). Communication, training, well-being, and commitment across nurse generations. Nursing Outlook, 60(1), 7-15.
Wong, F. K. D., Lam, Y. K. A., & Poon, A. (2010). Depression literacy among Australians of Chinese-speaking background in Melbourne, Australia. BMC psychiatry, 10(1), 1.
Leung, K. (2010). Beliefs in Chinese culture. The Oxford handbook of Chinese psychology, 221- 240.
Hollingworth, S. A., Burgess, P. M., & Whiteford, H. A. (2010). Affective and anxiety disorders: prevalence, treatment, and antidepressant medication use.Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 44(6), 513-519.
