Exam 4 Part 9

Question 1

What should an SLP do if a patient is experiencing anxiety?

Answer 1

Restore ownership within the individual, refer to psychologist/psychiatrist

Question 2

Behaviors are negative reactions a person uses to remove themselves from unpleasant, stressful, or feared situations or tasks

Answer 2

Avoidance/escape behavior

Question 3

What should an SLP do if a patient is experiencing avoidance/escape behavior?

Answer 3

Make tasks more achievable, assess why individual is resisting therapy, discuss fears a person may have

Question 4

Individuals may transfer their own feelings of anxiety, fear, loss, or stress onto another person to reduce those feelings within themselves

Answer 4

Displacement/projection

Question 5

What should an SLP do if a patient is experiencing displacement/projection?

Answer 5

SLP should remain calm, encourage talking about emotions, validate feelings person is experiencing

Question 6

Patients or caregivers may unconsciously remove themselves emotionally from painful, stressful, or upsetting situations to alleviate emotional stress

Answer 6

Dissociation

Question 7

Indirect negative reaction expressed toward others that is masked by timidity and passivity; Can present as hostility in the form of procrastination, delaying, or lack of interest or motivation

Answer 7

Passive aggressive

Question 8

What should an SLP do if someone is being passive aggressive?

Answer 8

Provide open, nonthreatening environment for patients to discuss their feelings and emotions

Question 9

When a patient consciously suppresses the negative experiences that are the result of their deficits

Answer 9

Repression

Question 10

Individuals may feel they need to rely or depend on others for care; may resort to sick or helpless role

Answer 10

Learned helplessness

Question 11

What should an SLP do if a patient is experiencing learned helplessness?

Answer 11

Counsel caregivers on how to keep their loved ones motivated yet independent; Encourage the connection between purpose, growth, and ownership of goals

Question 12

What are some examples of loss in patients after a neurogenic communication disorder?

Answer 12

Communicative abilities, loss of loved ones, loss of independence, loss of life they once had

Question 13

The patients’ perceived negative impact of their disorder on their quality of life and the patients’ willingness to change

Answer 13

Counseling integration matrix

Question 14

CI Matrix that has high negative impact on quality of life

and high willingness to change

Answer 14

Q1 high high quadrant

Question 15

High negative impact on quality of life and low willingness to change

Answer 15

Q2 High low quadrant