Chapter 16

Question 1

aims of recovery-focused assessment

Answer 1

-to promote + validate the development of personal meaning
- to amplify strenghts
- to foster personal responsibility
- to support the development of a positive identity
- to develop hopefulness

Question 2

4 needs for meaning

Answer 2

1. purpuse
   - goals
   -fulfillments
2. values
3. efficacy
4. self worth

Question 3

increase culrural competence in staff> cultural competence?

Answer 3

ability to work with people without emposing cultural-based filters of meaning on the interaction

Question 4

recovery is a manifestation of empowerment. What does it involve?

Answer 4

rejecting mental illness labels + regaining sense of personal integrity

Question 5

3 approaches to psychosis experience

Answer 5

1. finding specific and concrete meaning
2. understanding metaphoric/ thematic associations
3. understanding the purpos + significance of one’s elaboration of their psychosis

Question 6

approaches in psycohiss are relevant to 3 levels of understanding. What are they?

Answer 6

1. understanding the meaning of madness - explore the origin/cause
2. understanding the meaning in madness - either specific or metaphorical
3. understanding the meaning through madness - existential considerations

Question 7

coping strategies

Answer 7

cognitive and behavioural responses to reduce the gap between either reality (environmental outcomes) and wants (self-image), or the threat (cognitive dissonance) associated with the gap

Question 8

Cognitive appraisal model: coping responses are generated by….

Answer 8

1. appraising situation (e.g. demands, threats)
2. indentifying the available resources for managing the situation
3. estimating the consequences of different responses

Question 8

emotion-focussed coping (reorganisation strategies)

Answer 8

intrapsychic change to reduce the mismatch or perceived threat

Question 8

problem-focussed coping

Answer 8

involves changing the environment to remove obstacles blocking successful

Question 9

meaning-focused coping (reappraisal coping)

Answer 9

re-framing the meaning of the event/situation to make it more compatible with beliefs and goals

Question 10

Approach strategies

Answer 10

deal with a mismatch between self and environment by actively confronting the problem

Question 11

avoidance strategies

Answer 11

either deny the mismatch or seek to escape the damaging consequences

Question 12

4 different coping styles

Answer 12

1. emotional avoidance
2. re-framing
3. active engagement
4. integration

Question 13

clinical assessment should focus on 4 dimensions

Answer 13

1. deficiencies and undermining characteristics
2. strengths and assets
3. lack + destructive factors in the environment
4. resource and opportunities in the environment

Question 14

Value in Action in Inventory of Strengths (VIAS)

Answer 14

questionnaire builds to examine one’s strengths + relation to virtues of wisdom, courage, humanity etc

Question 14

the 4 steps in the appreciative listening cycle are labelled as?

Answer 14

Discover
Dream
Design
Destiny

Question 15

2 types of identity transformation through personal recovery

Answer 15

1. identity re-definition
2. identity growth

Question 15

identity re-definition

Answer 15

redefining existing elemen s of identity

Question 16

identity grown

Answer 16

development of new elements

Question 17

strategies for promoting hop

Answer 17

values
attitudes
behaviours