Class 9 Flashcards
What are the two different situations related to coping
- short term/acute stressful situation
- chronic or permanent stressors
What is the coping cycle process
1) Process information
2) Appraise the situation
3) Choice-consider available options and assume a course of action to adress situation
4) Reappraise the situation
- >if the threat is still present, repeat the appraisal situation
What is a crisis
- an acute emotional upset
- > arising from situational, developmental or sociocultural sources
- > result in a temporary inability to cope by means of one’s usual problem-solving devices
Is stress crisis
-no it is tension
How do you assess level of crisis
1) Person’s perception of the event or situation
2) Supports available to the person
3) Adequacy of coping mechanisms
Describe mild, moderate and severe levels of crisis
Mild
- > client is able and willing to mobilize their own resources
- > at their own pace to resolve the situation
Moderate
- > pressure is present with decompensation pending
- > crisis intervention is needed but can be deferred for a short time(impaired problem solving)
Severe
->the identified client presents the likelihood of a life threatening situation
Is suicide a life threatening situation
-yes
How do you evaluate risk for suicide
- feelings/emotion
- > feeling trapped, pain
- cognitive thoughts
- > wanting to die or kill themselves
- actions/behaviors
- > they are acting anxious and agitated
- physical changes
- > do not do self care activities
- demographics associated with suicide
- > a certain area of people that lack mental health resources, financial issues
What should an OT do if suicidal intent in a client is present
- first know the rules in your jurisdiction
- > know procedures in your workplace
-further training like applied suicide intervention skills training
What are the crisis intervention principles
1) Immediacy
- >crisis are hazardous and immediacy is required immediately
2) Understanding
- facilitate understanding of what has occurred or the situation
- >meaning to the person
- >meaning within larger social network
- ventilation and the sharing of negative emotions as a force of change
3) Stabilization
- >restore some semblance of order
- >create conditions so that adaptive coping can be enabled through quick exercise like breathing
- >get routine and order
4) Focus on problem solving
- >enable individual to use available internal and external resources to gain control
5) Encourage self-reliance
- >enables ongoing management of situation
- >supports personal capacities
How do people receive crisis intervention services
- mobile/phone/office
- > distress line, kids help phone
- police
- emergency room
What is the Appraisal Model of Coping
-this is to help you understand the process of coping
What is cognitive appraisal
-individual interpretation of what is happening in the environment
What are the two types of cognitive appraisals
Primary appraisal
->determine whether what is happening could be harmful, threatening, challenging, beneficial or of no importance
Secondary Appraisal
->evaluate the physical, psychological, social and material resources available to cope with the event
What are the two types of coping plan
-it is the interaction between primary and secondary appraisal
1) Emotion-focused coping
- >alter the emotional reaction
- >perception-focused coping where we alter the meaning of the event
2) Problem-focused coping
- >change the situation