Counselling And Rehab Flashcards

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What is counselling?

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Provision of professional assistance and guidance in resolving personal or psychological problems

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What is rehabilitation?

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Reinstate or restore, bring back to good, make for after disablement or illness

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Explain hard of hearing and hearing impaired

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Hard of hearing: Mild to severe hearing loss often used to describe those with a gradual loss

Hearing impaired: technically accurate description of some one who is hard of hearing or no hearing but many do not like this term.

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What is the difference between Deaf and deaf?

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Deaf: refers to complete loss of hearing in one or both ears. Identify as culturally deaf, great pride, Deaf community who haven’t ‘lost’ anything and not ‘impaired’ don’t see as a disability and use sign language.

Deaf: don’t associate with Deaf community, primary language is not sign, integrates mainly with hearing World. Gradual loss but May not yet have accepted it.

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What is pathology?

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Study of disease or changes in tissues/organs that is associated with disease

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What is a disorder?

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Malfunction of the body, ailment or illness ie Presbyacusis

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What is an impairment?

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Loss of function or the amount of damage. This a measurable function ie as shown on an Audiogram ie slope of Presbyacusis

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What is the difference between a disability and a handicap?

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Disability is a physical difficulty and the inability to perform a common task easily. Less able.

Handicap is the non-auditory problems that result from diminished auditory capacity ie stops going to coffee mornings as cannot hear.

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What do we need to do to hear?

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We need to hear it ie detect sound
Discriminate the sound
Identify the meaning of the sound
Comprehend it ie cognition

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What are they 4 reactions to AC hearing loss?

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PHYSICAL fatigue, weight loss, raised blood pressure
BEHAVIOUR withdrawal, blame, bluff
EMOTIONAL denial, anger, anxiety, depression
COGNITIVE low self esteem, lack of concentration

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What are the important factors for rehabilitation?

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It is bespoke
Denial - or acceptance?
What level of denial/acceptance
Family support
Time loss was identified
How long it took to do something
Cognitive ability
Motivation

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What are the 3 stages of rehabilitation? What do they entail?

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RECOGNITION- of the problem. What are denial/acceptance levels, how long to do something about it, family support.

REMEDIATION: attitude is an important part in acceptance of amplification.
Emotional adjustments
Practical aspects ie fitting
Psychological aspects
Influence of others
State of action!

EVALUATION: follow ups
Assessing benefits, assistive listening devices, ongoing support

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How do we communicate?

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Verbal 7%
Para verbal 38% how we say it
NVC’s 55%

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What 4 areas should we consider when communicating?

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Speaker, listener, message, environment

Speaker: talk slowly, clearly, repeat if necessary, be patient

Listener: pay attention, patience, watch speakers mouth, ask specific questions

Message: no jargon, don’t be wordy or ambiguous

Environment: reduce BGN 1 speaker at a time, lighting, position, distractions, acoustics

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How do we communicate for conductive loss and SN loss?

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Conductive: increase volume of speech

SN: speak clearly and enunciate

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