Quiz 2- Psychological adaptation strategies

Question 1

What are some common psychosocial adaptation strategies?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What needs to be balanced achieve successful adjustment?

Answer 2

Stressores (allostatic load) and effective use of available resources

Question 3

Describe cognitive reframing

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Describe Emotional and practical support (peer support)

Answer 4

helps people cope with new reality

• HCPs can encourage support from friends
• Rehabilitation profressionals change physical situation with focusing on functional adaptations

Question 5

What is the definition of disease?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What is an illness?

Answer 6

• 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

Question 7

What are examples of illness behaviors?

Answer 7

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