Quiz 2- Psychological adaptation strategies Flashcards

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What are some common psychosocial adaptation strategies?

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1) Developing peer support
2) Acquiring new skills
3) Making occupation accommodations
4) Using cognitive re-framing
5) Stress management

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What needs to be balanced achieve successful adjustment?

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Stressores (allostatic load) and effective use of available resources

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Describe cognitive reframing

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Altering the way one perceives fears and concerns can be transforming.
-Helps put meaning to the loss and makes it bareable and possibly even positive

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Describe Emotional and practical support (peer support)

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helps people cope with new reality

  • HCPs can encourage support from friends
  • Rehabilitation profressionals change physical situation with focusing on functional adaptations
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What is the definition of disease?

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biological process gone awry, an alteration in the structure or function of the body
-can be diagnosed and assessed using clinical signs, medical symptoms, and degree of variation from normative values

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What is an illness?

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  • unique to each individual and each client will have own experiences
  • Assess illness by looking at client’s presentation of illness behaviors = observable and potentially measurable actions and conduct which express and communicate the individual’s perception of distrubed health
  • the human experience of symptoms and suffering
  • how the sick person and family or social network perceive, live with, and respond to symptoms and disability
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What are examples of illness behaviors?

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  • Verbalizing distress or hopelessness
  • insomnia
  • fatigue
  • lying down
  • sighing
  • grimacing
  • moaning
  • and irritability
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