Final Exam Flashcards
Piaget believes?
You must develop first (through each of the four stages) before you can learn.
Vygotsky believes?
You must first learn in order to develop.
Provide an example of when an occupational therapist would be providing patient education
An example of patient education would be educating the patient on using AE for lower body dressing if they came to a SNF after a hip surgery. Educating them on why they are here and what tools I educate them with to help them become independent. By showing them how to use the different types of AE and having them demo it back to me correctly and still maintaining their hip precautions.
Provide an example of health education
An example of health education would be educating a group of seniors at a senior apartment complex ways or ideas of how they can rearrange their apartments to help reduce falls. By having a fall prevention presentation at a senior apartment complex this would be educating the senior group on safety in their homes.
Discuss how Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence affects the rehabilitation we provide to our clients.
Since not everyone learns the same way we need to educate our patients differently so they get the best education from us. By adapting our treatment sessions to help the patient get the most out of their therapy is important. We want to make sure that the patient is able to understand and become educated in a way that is benefital to them. If they learn better with handouts and written copies I would provide them with HEP handouts that they can see, read and examine so they can see the pictures on the handouts on how to perform the exercises and ask quesitions as we go through the HEP.
Discuss how emotional intelligence impacts US as therapists AND how our knowledge of emotional intelligence impacts our clients.
Emotional intelligence impacts us as therapists because it allows us to know if we are having a bad day not to carry those bad feelings that we are having into our treatment sessions with the patient. We should be able to work with the patient and not wreck their session because of our bad feelings/emotions that we might be having. Having knowledge of emotional intelligence can help us to see if our patient is having a bad day by asking “whats wrong” and if there is anything I can do to help. It might be something simple as they need to vent about a family member, nurse or nurse aid but just taking the time to allow our patients to vent and showing empathy can be very important and helpful to them.
Describe how a therapist would apply operant conditioning concepts of positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement to the clinic.
When a patient does a balance activity well I would say “great job” giving them a positive reinforcement and hoping they will feel great about themselves so they will continue to do well going forward. An example of negative reinforcement would be telling a patient that if they do three more balance activities they wont have to do the arm bike at the end of their session (so by taking away the arm bike and continuing to do balance activities since I know the patient doesn’t like doing the arm bike) but working on some more balance activities that will carryover into ADL safety which is important.
Briefly describe what the purpose of Healthy People 2020.
Healthy People 2020 is a way of helping provide education to people on a number of health topics so the patient can be educated on making better choices on health related topics. When the patient is given better education they can make choices on their life stlyes that are key for helping them stay healthy.
How do occupational therapy and Healthy People 2020 connect?
Educating the people/patients on prevention to help them realize that moving around and exercising is important for maintaining mobility when you age. Also, proper diets, no smoking and limiting drinking all can have positive outcomes in their life. In occupational therapy we are educating our patients on these topics all the time which is part of the Healthy People 2020. Giving our patients the best education will allow the patient to make better lifestyle choices that will help them age healthy.
A-(analyze the learner) S-(State the POC) S-(Select teaching methods) U-(Use teaching methods and educational tools during intervention) R-(Require learner performance) E-(Evaluate and re-evaluate the POC)
A: Asking the patient about her precautions to see if she is aware that she cannot bend forward. I would see if she knows how to use a sock aid or has ever heard of it before, can the patient figure it out (or has she seen this piece of equipment before and knows about it) and knows how to use it.
S: State the POC with the patient that becoming independent with LB dressing is something she will need to do before she can go home.
S: Educate the patient that the sock aid will help her achieve her goal of LB dressing independently.
U: If needed provide a handout on how to use the sock aid. Demo the sock aide to the patient and she if she’s able to demo is back while maintaining her bending precautions.
R: Is the patient able to perform the task of LB dressing using a sock aid and maintaining her no bending precautions. Give verbal cues or suggestions if the patient appears to be struggling or breaking her precautions.
E: If the patient isn’t able to use the sock aide and the cause might be due to strength in her UEs working on UE exercises to help with strengthening to allow the patient to perform the task of LB independently with a sock aid and adjusting sessions going forward.
A group of college students have agreed to participate in an experiment. They are sitting in a classroom. The lights flicker and they are jolted with a small amount of electricity. Each student jumps in response to the electrical current. This happens throughout a 4 hour period. By the end of the 4 hour period, the lights flicker and the entire class jumps without any electrical jolt. Identify the UCS, UCR, CS, CR
UCS: electrical current
UCR: the students jump because of the electrical current
CS: lights flicker
CR: students jumped when the lights flicker even when no electrical current was present.
Identify the type of reinforcement in this example:
Giving $5.00 for each grade of an A on a report card.
(+) positive reinforcement
Identify the type of reinforcement in this example:
A time out
(P) next to an example of punishment
Identify the type of reinforcement in this example:
As a result of good behavior at church, a child does not have to clean his/her room.
(-) next to a negative reinforcement
Identify the type of reinforcement in this example:
Telling an employee “good job”
(+) positive reinforcement
