Functional Assessment Flashcards
Affective function
Coping strategies needed to manage stressors
Activities daily living (ADLs)
Basic activities needed for self care
Disabled
Unable to perform social roles typical of individual adult in comparable grouping (age, gender)
Handicap
Social disadvantage of disability
Illness
Forms of personal behavior emerging from individual’s experience of having disease
Functional activities
Individuals essential activities for physical, psychological we’ll being
Functional limitations
Deviation from normal of individual performance resulting from impairment
Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs)
Advanced ADLs needed for independent living
Mental functions
Intellectual, cognitive abilities which include: initiative, concentration, memory, problem solving, judgement
Psychological functions
Ability to use mental and affective resources to effectively function in a particular situation
NAGIs model of health and how it describes health status
Physical signs: directly observable changes in the individual’s system (ex. Blood pressure)
Symptoms: subjective reaction to physical signs (ex. Dizziness)
Impairments: deviations from normal anatomical, physiological or psychological functions (ex. Loss of ROM)
Impairments: leads to functional limitations (altered ability to perform task) the disability (inability to perform an expected role)
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Purpose of functional assessments
Directly measure the outcomes of treatments in the clinic and must clearly show that the client is better off functionally as a result of therapeutic interventions and has lesser degree of disability
Must document functional outcomes-or won’t get paid
Compare clients current function to their baseline function
