final exam

Question 1

What is very short-term stress?

Answer 1

acute stress

Question 2

What is the scientific study of animal behavior?

Answer 2

ethology

Question 3

Freeze response, what is it also called and how may it occur?

Answer 3

The freeze response is also called reactive immobility and may occur subconsciously

Question 4

Most research has shown that pets can provide

Answer 4

excellent social support, companionship, positive stress relief and various other benefits for many people

Question 5

How do you define stress?

Answer 5

any type of change that causes physical, emotional, or psychological strain

Question 6

What is a group of lions called?

Answer 6

a pride

Question 7

T/F: What does puppy blues describe?

Answer 7

Puppy blues is a term used to describe a range of emotional responses that include being overwhelmed, anxious, sad, and sometimes regretful about getting your new puppy

Question 8

Are cat owners or dog owners more likely to say that their pet offers more companionship?

Answer 8

Cat owners were more likely than dog owners to say their cats offer more companionship, and provide a calming presence, and help reduce anxiety and stress for them

Question 9

Flight or fight response

Answer 9

Stress can trigger the human body’s response to a perceived threat or danger that is known as the fight-or-flight reaction. SNS becomes activated, your body prepares first for either fight or flight. The PSNS drives the freezing response. The freeze response is also called reactive immobility and may occur subconsciously.

Question 10

Dog owners were twice as likely as cat owners to say

Answer 10

their dog encourages them to be more physically active

Question 11

Do hospice pets motivate family members to participate in the hospice patient’s care?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system

Answer 12

SNS becomes activated = fight or flight
PNS: drives the freezing response

Question 13

Frequent, consistent, intermittent, or regular stress:

Answer 13

episodic acute stress

Question 14

T/F:After a stressful event, many wild animals

Answer 14

begin to shake, stretch, or move vigorously which may be a way to release nervous energy

Question 15

What type of therapy is hospice pet therapy?

Answer 15

form of animal-assisted therapy

Question 16

Autism spectrum disorder

Answer 16

broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive, behaviors, speech, and non-verbal communication

Question 17

Eustress

Answer 17

positive stress that encourages people to work hard, improve their performance, and reach their goals

Question 18

What part of your brain is responsible for perceived fear?

Answer 18

amygdala

Question 19

Is dopamine known as the pleasure hormone?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

“Compassion Fatigue in the Animal Care Community” article pg 58: Compassion fatigue read pg. 58.
Talks about how compassion fatigue can alter an individual’s emotional spectrum.

Answer 20

can alter a person’s emotional spectrum, moving it toward the negative, with increasing feelings of annoyance, intolerance, anger, irritability, skepticism, cynicism, embitterment, and/or resentfulness

Symptoms often incite interpersonal conflicts and lead to problems with intimacy, culminating in hurt feelings, disappointments, and disconnection. Anxiety, irrational fears, mood swings, tearfulness, melancholy, sadness, and despair may also be experienced and can, at times, lead to suicidal thoughts or gestures

Question 21

“Compassion Fatigue in the Animal Care Community” article pg 59: Compassion fatigue read pg. 59.

Compassion fatigue can lead or not lead to other things?

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Do therapy animals have a federal requirement regarding identification?

Answer 22

No

Question 23

Does the autonomic nervous system include the SNS and PSNS

Answer 23

Yes

Question 24

Can therapy animals be any species?

Answer 24

Yes

Question 25

The Parasympathetic Nervous System

Answer 25

drives the freezing response

Question 26

Article: "the loss of a pet: cultural perspectives on cross-species grief and healing" pg. 158: What is the best definition of cultural competence?

Answer 26

Process by which individuals and systems respond respectfully and effectively to people of all cultures, languages, classes, races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, spiritual traditions, immigration status, and other diversity factors in a manner that recognizes, affirms, and values the worth of individuals, families, and communities and protects and preserves the dignity of each.

Question 27

pg 159 Without an understanding of the cultural variation in pet keeping and pet loss

Answer 27

we risk pathologizing clients' experiences and practices when they differ from our own or missing opportunities to assist clients in resolving their grief.

Question 28

what type of grief is talked about in DP 10

Answer 28

disenfranchised grief

Question 29

When a pet dies

Answer 29

they cross over the rainbow bridge

Question 30

The fawn response

Answer 30

Yes, prioritizing the needs and desires of others above their own. common signs showing activation of a fawn response: the person has a hard time saying no, being a people-pleaser, pretending to agree with someone, doing what you're told no matter what it is, putting other needs before your own needs, and not being able to set healthy boundaries

Question 31

What type of fatigue that has been recognized as a significant stress-related occupational hazard for those in the animal care community?

Answer 31

compassion fatigue

Question 32

Compassion fatigue article pg. 53: What types of factors contribute to burnout and can increase the risk of compassion fatigue in veterinarians?

Answer 32

Euthanasia (& exposure to death), concern about adequate educational preparedness and the need to keep up with advancements and new technologies, practicing in relative social and professional isolation, risk of complaints or litigation, long work hours, work-home interference, emergency on-call, time demands, understaffing, limited resources, low remuneration, low profit margins, financial pressures, administrative duties, and difficult relationships with coworkers or supervisors and conflict in the workplace

Question 33

Pg. 52 of compassion fatigue: What is moral distress?

Answer 33

the experience of knowing the right thing to do while being in a situation in which it is nearly impossible to do it

Question 34

compassion fatigue: What do people who work in animal health do?

Answer 34

examine, diagnose, and provide treatment to animals, preserving quantity and quality of life and the human-animal bond (HAB)

Question 35

Does compassion fatigue, being a very deep emotional and physical and emotional exhaustive state, can that diminish the ability to empathize or feel compassion for others?

Answer 35

yes

Question 36

Fight-flight-freeze is

Answer 36

not a conscious decision, instead an automatic reaction

Question 37

Equine Assisted Interventions include

Answer 37

grooming horses, riding horses, feeding horses, walking horses on a lead, guiding horses through an obstacle course, or observing responses of the horse to human behavior

Question 38

When a human whose severely agitated and may be suicidal and showing active suicidal ideation, do you think those symptoms may cause distress in a therapy animal?

Answer 38

yes

Question 39

Undue distress

Answer 39

important to remember that symptoms of agitation, self-harm, and suicidality may cause undue distress in therapy animals and companion pet