Cultural Empowerment When planning a health promotion program, we should consider the positive (empowerment process) and the negative behaviors. As we begin to understand our intended audience we can assure the most culturally-appropriate educational intervention. In doing so, we are more likely to create partnerships that help people successfully achieve lasting change and truly promote health.

One of the most common issues that are not discussed in the armed forces is military sexual trauma (MST). This is when an individual will face unnecessary amounts of sexual pain from others they are serving with. A few most common forms include: unwanted sexual touching / grabbing, threating / offensive remarks about someone's body / sexual activities and unwarranted sexual advances. This has begun to occur so frequently that the Veteran Administration conducted a study, where they found that the total amounts of MST affected: 1 in every 5 women and 1 in every 100 men. ("Military Sexual Trauma," 2011) These figures are important, because they are illustrating a how culture endures that allows these kinds of activities to take place on a regular basis. To fully understand the overall scope of the problem we will examine:...

The PEN Model) Once this occurs, is when we will be able to understand how to implement a health promotion strategy that will effectively address the problem.
Positive

Positive support is when health care professionals are introducing specific techniques that will assist patients in dealing with psychological challenges they will face after the event. The best way to do this is to introduce tools and tactics that will immediately change the focus of the individual away from the negative event. Once this takes place, is when they can more effectively understand what happened and how to be able to cope with the lingering effects. Some good examples of this include: having patients remind themselves that this was a past situation that is not reflecting the present / future, having the individual hold something that is comforting and working with the person to carry positive affirmations with them. These different elements are important, because the combination of them will allow patients to be able to change their underlying state of mind. This is when you can be able to have a positive impact on how they are looking at…