Author/Editor		Bon, Jurij; Petrič, Primož
Title		Sindrom kulturnega šoka
Translated title		Cultural shock syndrome
Type		članek
Source		Med Razgl
Vol. and No.		Letnik 39, št. Suppl 8
Publication year		2000
Volume		str. 97-100
Language		slo
Abstract		Culture shock syndrome is a form of adjustment disorders to new situations that results from a change of cultural evironment, experienced by a traveller visiting a far away, exotic country. The typycal clinical picture of the culture shock syndrome involves four distinct phases, namely, the phase of enthusiasm, the phase of loneliness and home sickness, the phase of adaptation and remotivation, and finally, the phase of realism. Particular phases are characterized by particular behavioural and emotional disturbances, until finally, in the phase of realism, the traveller reaches a new state of psychological equilibrium. However, the change of cultural environment represents a stress to the traveller which evokes very different responses in different travellers and that is why, in practice, culture shock syndrome very seldom fits into the frame of the classical clinical picture. Since the culture shock syndrome is the most common psychological disorder in travellers, the doctor that gives advice to the traveller must know which are the simple, though unreliable measures that can help the traveller to adjust to the new environment more easily.
Summary		Sindrom kulturnega šoka je oblika prilagoditvene motnje, ki nastopi kot odgovor na spremembo kulturnega okolja, kakršno izkusi potnik, ki obišče oddaljeno, eksotično deželo. Značilna slika sindroma kulturnega šoka obsega štiri obdobja in sicer obdobje entuziazma, obdobje osamljenosti in domotožja, obdobje prilagoditve in remotivacije in na koncu obdobje realizma. Posamezna obdobja spremljajo različni simptomi motenega čustvovanja in/ali vedenja, dokler se v odobju realizma pri potniku ne vzpostavi novo psihološko ravnovesje. Vendar pa sprememba kulturnega okolja predstavlja stresor, ki pri različnih potnikih izzove zelo različne odzive in tako sindrom kulturnega šoka v resnici le redko togo sledi okvirom klasične klinične slike. Glede na to, da je sindrom kulturnega šoka najpogostejša duševna motnja, ki lahko doleti potnika na potovanju, mora zdravnik vedeti, kateri enostavni, a žal nezanesljivi ukrepi, lahko potniku olajšajo težave pri prilagajanju na novo kulturno okolje.
Descriptors		TRAVEL ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL CULTURE STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL LIFE CHANGE EVENTS SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT MENTAL DISORDERS DEPRESSIVE DISORDER ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS HEALTH EDUCATION