Quiz 2- Psychological adaptation strategies Flashcards
What are some common psychosocial adaptation strategies?
1) Developing peer support
2) Acquiring new skills
3) Making occupation accommodations
4) Using cognitive re-framing
5) Stress management
What needs to be balanced achieve successful adjustment?
Stressores (allostatic load) and effective use of available resources
Describe cognitive reframing
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
Describe Emotional and practical support (peer support)
helps people cope with new reality
- HCPs can encourage support from friends
- Rehabilitation profressionals change physical situation with focusing on functional adaptations
What is the definition of disease?
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
What is an illness?
- 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
What are examples of illness behaviors?
- Verbalizing distress or hopelessness
- insomnia
- fatigue
- lying down
- sighing
- grimacing
- moaning
- and irritability