Illness, Family Dysfunction and Family Intervention Flashcards
What is our primary role as doctors?
institute behavioral change in patients
[SOAP]
What subjective info should you get?
Chief complaint, HPI, ROS
[SOAP]
What objective info should you get?
Vital signs, measurements, PE, Lab, Dx tests
[SOAP]
What assessment should you give?
Dx, Differential Dx
[SOAP]
What plans should be made?
Treatment plans
[SCOAP]
What does C stand for and what does it include?
Context; psychosocial aspects that
might affect management: ethnicity, culture,
family practices, how family deals with illness,
how family is taught to deal with illness
Which statement is false regarding family life cycle theory?
a. Transitions, successful or not, cause emotionalor stress-related disorders
b. . Psychosocial difficulty is accompanied by biomedical difficulty
c. Illness can cause a family to get stuck in a life cycle stage
d. AOTA
e. . NOTA
A
What happens when a family fails to accomplish the second-order changes of a previous stage?
They get “stuck”
True about families that are “stuck” except
a. Getting stuck will not affect recovery from illness
b. Getting stuck could be manifested by illness
c. Psychosocial interventions can help patient get better
d. AOTA
e. NOTA
A
A philosophy that searches for the causes of
behavior, not in the individual alone, but in the
interactions among the members of a group.
Family Systems Theory
[Analogy]
families with great flexibility:_____:::inflexible families: _____
adapt;break
[Identify] list of critical events and how the family copes with them (i.e. getting married)
Lifeline
[Identify] Crises defined by life cycle changes
Normative crises
[Identify] crises e.g. earthquake,
typhoons, accidents; shows ability of family to cope given such crises
Non-normative crises
T/F Superimposing lifeline and clinical records will give you a better picture of the events. The lifeline will place the clinical records in context
T
[Identify] Illness that are expected to happen in a specific
life cycle stage
In-phase illness
heart attack happens during adolescent stage
a. In-phase
b. Out-of-phase
B
a heart attack in a launching stage/later in life stage
a. In-phase
b. Out-of-phase
A
When an adult playing a major role in the
family is seriously ill or dies.
a. In-phase
b. Out-of-phase
B
Which statements are true?
a. Illness always exerts a centripetal effect
b. Illness occurring in a family with young children is more difficult to deal with than illness occuring in family with adolescents
c. A newly wed couple is in a centripetal phase
d. NOTA
A;
Unattached young adult
a. Centripetal
b. Centrifugal
B
Newly married couple
a. Centripetal
b. Centrifugal
B
Family with young children
a. Centripetal
b. Centrifugal
A
Family with young adolescents
a. Centripetal
b. Centrifugal
B
Launching family
a. Centripetal
b. Centrifugal
B