Unit 1 Flashcards
What are some kinds of Rhebailitation disciplines?
Audiology, speech pathology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, child-life therapists, social work, and respiratory therapy
What is ‘Bio-psychosocial model of care’?
When a team of therapists will work to treat an individual and focus on their specific whole needs, like cultural, emotional, mental, and physical
What does ‘client-centered’ mean?
It means working with the patient and family to manage expectations, work on personal goals, and have the family and patient work in partnership with the health-care team
What is ‘Health Continuum’?
The idea that different types of care is provided during a clients life
When/why was Physical Rehabilitation introduced in Canada?
In 1917 to provide help to injured soldiers through massage, hydrotherapy, and electrotherapy through ‘physiotherapy schools’
What is the origin of occupational Therapy?
It began in the 1910’s, in response to the first World War. Occupational therapy was introduced at UofT to help veterans get back to day-today lives by helping them with neurological, psychological, orthapaedic problems. OT’s eventually began to be on the front lines of war
How did Speech Therapy develop?
It developed in the UK, NZ, and US, and during the 1950s, they eventually began to come to Canada until UofT and Montreal University began to have ST as a class.
What is the history of Therapeutic Recreation? What is Therapeutic Recreation?
TR was focused on allowing people ith disabilities to participate in leisure services. Canadian Parks/Rec worked to begin providing these services and created a policy to mandate them.
What are the six main factors of wellness?
Physical, environmental, spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and social
What can be the three targets of Rehabilitation?
Individual, group, population
What are the four goals of Rehabilitation?
- Capacity Building: How can rehabilitators increase the capacity of the population to move towards better health and wellness
- Prevention: Goal that is set to try and prevent harm, illness, disability, and delays. Can be goals made for individuals, a group, and a population
- Promoting Resourcefulness: A goal for an individual to make their wellbeing better by helping them nurture themselves and acquire skills and knowledge to overcome impairments
- Enhancing Function: The goal to enable a client to be able to return to their day-to-day activities and things that they want to do.
What are three principles of Rehabilitation?
- Client-centered. They should have lots of autonomy and a voice in their care plans
- Rehabilitation is active and embedded across the client’s life, focused on working towards goals created by the client
- Rehabilitation is the responsibility of both the team and the client(s)
What is community-based care?
Community-based care is provided for more independent clients. This can mean they may be living independently in their own home, or in a living facility. It is used so that the client’s independence is maximized
What are some examples of community-based care?
Home-living: For clients whos needs are light-moderate. Can include service options like house-cleanings as well as therapy performed in the home
Supportive-living: For clients living in places such as a group home, a family home, lodge, or assisted living complex. For those with light-moderate needs. May include home support, recreational therapy, and personal/social
School: They can provide certain services for children with developmental disabilities
Community-based day programs: Clients live in their own homes but can go to close-by community centres for rehabilitation
Group homes: Usually for a group of people with common characteritics who need a high degree of care and accessibility in the home. Can be a stepping stone between independentliving and an institutional setting
Halfway houses: Places for a client to use as a stepping stone between an instutional setting and independent living. Tends to be used for addicts or those released from a correctional facility
Client
A person with similar needs to everyone else, who must be respected, valued, and helped to achieve their fullest potential. They are central to the rehabilitation process
What is physical function?
How a person physically performs basic activities
What is emotional function?
How a person regulates, expresses, and is aware of their emotions
What is cognitive function?
How a person thinks, solves problems, remembers, reasons, makes decisions, and pays attention
What is social function?
How a person interacts with other people, and how much they fulfil their role in their relationships
What is impairment?
The function limited by an abnormality/loss of one of your functions. If a person suffers from a spinal injury, paralysis is the impairment
What is disability?
A disability is nt the condition. Instead it is when an impairment interferes with the person and their functions. A visually iimpaired person may not be able to read a font in a book if it is too small. If the font is enlarged, there may no longer be a disability
What is accesibility?
Elements in an environment that allow approach from people with impairments
What are adaptive skills?
When a person with an impairment adapts to an environment to allow them to continue to work/play. For example, a person may use pictures or a soundboard to overcome a communication barrier
What is normalization?
The process of allowing individuals with certain functional limitations to have similar patterns and routines as mainstream society. A high value of the life, rights, and dignity is placed on the individuals with disabilities
