Adjustment To Hearing Loss Flashcards
CARE
- counseling & psychosocial
- audibility & impairment
- remediate communication activity
- environmental/coordination/participation improvement
Self-management
the way an individual overcomes communication difficulties and the ensuing psychosocial ramifications by using hearing aids, assistive listening devices, and/or communication strategies
acquired hearing loss impact on family system
- third party disability
- reported by 98% of spouses
- spouses report greater problems before HAs & greater benefit after HAs than patients
family-centered care
- results in improved reactions to intervention
- improve health outcomes
- reduce mental health problems for patient & family
core principles of family-centered care
- Shared acknowledgment and identification of the communication issues faced by the family
- Collaborative goal-setting
- Instructional counseling about hearing aid management and use with the person with hearing impairment and family members
- Development of mutually beneficial communication strategies
- Evaluation of outcomes for the individual with hearing impairment and his/her family
informational counseling
- talk about the hearing loss & the steps for management
- more common
personal adjustment counseling
- talk about emotions & feelings about hearing loss & life challenges/successes
- use to get functional information
steps in counseling process
- Help patients tell their story
- Help patients clarify their problems
- Help patients take responsibility for their listening difficulties
- Help patients establish their goals
- Develop an action plan
- Implement the plan
- Conduct ongoing evaluation
Self-assessment of communication (SAC)
- has SOAC; for significant other
- 4 standard situations & open ended ?’s
client oriented scale of improvement (COSI)
- individualized
- no standard situations; pick 5 or write own
- order & rate
communication profile for the hearing impaired (CPHI)
- has personal adjustment section
- strong focus on adjustment to HL; use to guide AR & measure progress
- complex scoring
Abbreviated profile of hearing aid benefit (APHAB)
- ease of communication in …
- positive conditions, reverberation conditions, background noise
satisfaction with amplification in daily life (SADL)
- about hearing aids
- letter scoring
Speech spatial & qualities of hearing scale (SSQ)
- version for estimating benefit & comparing HAs
- looks at spatial hearing
- number line scoring
Glasgow hearing aid benefit profile (GHABP)
- gather info on limitations & restrictions
- can put in own scenarios