Week 4 Ch 6 Flashcards
Occupational therapy from a client-centered perspective includes:
- Promote hope and understanding of what is possible
- Hear the person’s story
- Respect the person’s experience
- Relate to the person as an equal in society
Person-First Language
- Stigmatizing language
- Labeling people as diagnoses
- Person-first language
- Identity-first language
Stigmatizing language
Crazy, abnormal, insane
Labeling people as diagnoses
Anorexics, manic-depressives
Person-first language
Person with schizophrenia
Identity-first language
Autistic, disabled
Evolution of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- Guide for assessment and diagnosis of mental disorders
- Facilitates research and improves communication among clinicians and researchers
- Supports teaching and learning of psychopathology
Addressing Symptoms and Diagnosis
Recognize symptoms to understand experience and assess impact on occupational performance
Identifying Performance Skills
- Cognition
- Cognitive beliefs
- Sensory processing
- Coping and resilience
- Motivation
- Emotion
- Communication and socialization
- Pain regulation
- Time use and habits
Cognition
- Attention
- Memory
- Executive functions
- Impacted with schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder, depression
Cognitive Beliefs
- How people think about themselves and the world
- Cognitive behavioral therapy is aimed at altering cognitive distortions
- Impacted in eating disorders, schizophrenia
Sensory Processing
- Understand sensory processing
- Understand sensory features of the environment
- Use sensory approaches to reduce the use of restraints and seclusion in psychiatric hospitals
Use sensory approaches to reduce the use of restraints and seclusion in psychiatric hospitals
- Reduce noise levels
- Create calming environments
- Use weighted jackets
coping and resilience strategies
-emotion or problem-focused
-approach or avoidance oriented
practitioners can help individuals learn alternative coping strategies
motivation
- frequently disrupted with psychiatric conditions
- practitioners can address as performance skill; it does not have to become stigmatizing factor of mental illness
- identified in model of human occupation as volition