Chapter 7 Flashcards
suggests a dependent relationship to professional staff; most appropriate when applied to a person who is hospitalized or receiving hospital services as an outpatient
patient
suggests that the person requires substantial supervision or personal assistance with ADLs
care recipient
Suggests that the person is hiring the clinician to perform a service, much as one might hire a lawyer; sometimes used in day treatment programs
client
Preferred by persons with severe and persistent mental illness because it suggests freedom of choice and voluntary use of mental health services
consumer
Preferred by persons who belong to a psychosocial club program
member
Connotes that the person has been jailed; correctly used only in forensic environments
inmate
Used when a person with mental illness lives in a nursing home or other supervised living environment
resident
Term used by persons with diagnoses of serious mental disorders to connote their commitment to living with the threat of relapse
survivor
This is generally considered to refer to medical care for disease, injury, or other medically treatable condition
treatment
Broad term meaning “an action undertaken in order to change what is happening or might happen in another’s affairs, especially in order to prevent something undesirable”.
intervention
Refers to “work done by somebody for somebody else as a job or a duty”.
service
Term that suggests tending to or supervising someone, as in child care and elder care
Care
IPRT
Intensive Psychiatric Rehabilitation Treatment
Approach based on the idea that activity can be healthy even when the person has serious mental illness
activities health
Approach is the process of orienting patients to the purpose, goals, and procedures used in a particular treatment.
interview/therapy set
