Exam 3 Part 6 Flashcards
Understanding and accepting their own hearing loss
Counseling
Learn psychological and social difficulties resulting from hearing loss
Psychosocial support
Learn to state negative and positive feelings
Assertiveness training
Why do audiologists counsel during AR rehabilitation?
Understand hearing loss and effects, acceptance of hearing loss, manage communication strategies, increase self-motivation, decrease stress-related issues
First step of counseling with adult patients, informing the patent about their hearing loss, amplification options, and follow up-services; describing the hearing loss in an audiogram perspective as a dialogue
Informational/diagnostic counseling
First step of counseling with pediatric patients, focus on adjustment and acceptance, information should be simple and give the family time to absorb the news; modifying their thought process, behavior, and emotions
Personal adjustment/emotional counseling
Modify thought process
Cognitive approach
Modify behavior
Behavioral approach
Modify emotions
Affective approach
What are the 7 steps of grief?
Shock, denial, pain, anger, depression, acceptance, advocacy
Feelings of being stunned/numb
Shock
“Not me”, “Not my child”
Denial
_____ comes from understanding diagnosis is real
Pain
May engage in blaming
Anger
Can be a turning point to acceptance
Depression
Beginning of wanting to know what is the next step
Acceptance
Move beyond acceptance to prepare and carry out the next steps
Advocacy
What are some good methods for breaking bad news?
Diagnosis should be given by the audiologist who administered the test, ensure privacy, acknowledge the parents’ feelings, empathy and warmth, broad time for action, encourage parent to keep talking to child with hearing loss
What are some psychosocial implications of hearing loss?
Anxiety, frustration, withdraw, depression, embarrassment, lack of self esteem, lack of security
How do you alleviate hearing-related stress?
Adjust to being with the person with hearing loss, feel isolated, feel inadequate, having negative self-image
