Client Education

Question 1

What are factors that may influence uptake of health advice?

Answer 1

• Readiness for information or change
• Comfort
• Energy level
• Motivation/lack of conviction
• Congruence with beliefs or practice
• Lack of opportunity or resources

Question 2

How do OT’s enhance education and ‘doing’ for their clients?

Answer 2

OTs are “concerned with building the skilled behaviour that comprises or enables the occupational performance desired by the client”

Question 3

What are examples of adult education principles?

Answer 3

1) Collaborate to determine what the learners need to know
2) Self-directed approach. Teacher becomes facilitator / consultant.
3) Learner’s prior experience influences learning
4) Readiness to learn impacts on learning
5) Problem or life-centred learning
6) Motivation: to achieve goals and resolve problems

Question 4

What are examples of education strategies from behavioural approaches?

Answer 4

• Building chains of behaviour: backward chaining
• Reinforcement
• Shaping
• Cueing
• Modelling
• Role play
• Plan for transfer/generalisation

Question 5

Describe building chains of behaviour

Answer 5

• Breaking complex tasks into steps, reinforcing each step, acts as a stimulus for next step
• Backwards chaining: complete last step first

Question 6

Describe the role of a reinforcer in behaviour

Answer 6

Anything that increases the likelihood that a behaviour will occur

Question 7

Describe shaping in behaviour

Answer 7

Reinforcing behaviours that are similar to or preparatory to the desired behaviour

Question 8

Describe cueing in behaviour

Answer 8

Using something (eg a visual aid), presence of certain equipment to prompt person with what behaviour is required

Question 9

Describe modelling in behaviour

Answer 9

• Watching behaviour of someone else, providing opportunities for client to learn from observing others
• Use of role model, ensure role model is someone person can relate to and respect
• Participation and practice

Question 10

Describe plan for transfer/generalisation in modelling behaviour

Answer 10

-Transfer the skill to another environment, generalise principles learnt

Question 11

What are techniques to assist with learning new skills?

Answer 11

• Primacy: remember best what we learnt first
• Repetition: information more likely to be retained if repeated
• Simplification: use short sentences
• Stressed Importance: stress material particularly want person to remember
• Explicit Categorisation: categorise lots of information before learning
• Specific statements