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Counseling Across a Lifespan, presented in partnership with Salus University

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1.  Regarding the transformation of how disabilities are perceived, which of the following are true?
  1. The social model creates low expectations leading people to lose choice in their lives.
  2. The social model focuses on what is needed for the person to navigate his/her environment and the medical model focuses on what is wrong with the person.
  3. The medical model focuses on nothing important.
  4. The medical model focuses on nothing relevant.
2.  Which of the following statements incorrectly portrays characteristics of resiliency:
  1. Resiliency is how people can adapt in adverse situations.
  2. Resilient children think through challenging situations and find a solution.
  3. Resilient children have an absence of psychological stress.
  4. Resilient children are often able to laugh at themselves.
3.  According to Getzel & Thoma, 2008, self-awareness begins with:
  1. Self-acceptance
  2. Learning about oneself and the disability
  3. Self-knowledge about how one learns best
  4. Self-determination
4.  Two critical elements of self-determination are:
  1. Autonomy and choicefullness
  2. Interpreting situations and executive function
  3. Self-awareness and resiliency
  4. Positive feelings and hope
5.  Social relationships are impacted by:
  1. Appropriate social conversation skills, cognitive skills and executive function skills.
  2. Gross motor skills
  3. Fine motor skills
  4. Both gross and fine motor skills
6.  An example of self-determined behavior for a DHH student is:
  1. Selecting the color of hearing aids.
  2. Choosing a book to read.
  3. Telling the teacher "I can't hear you".
  4. Ignoring the teacher.
7.  Self-advocacy checklists:
  1. Are helpful to identify important skills and can guide development expectations
  2. Do not work
  3. Are misleading
  4. Are not worth your time
8.  Patient-centered care consists of four interactive components, including:
  1. Opening each appointment with the query, "What brings you here today?"
  2. Attending to hearing symptoms ("disease") as well as the patient's experience of living with hearing difficulties.
  3. Becoming comfortable with silence.
  4. Acknowledging taboo topics such as stigma.
9.  Using audiologic self-assessments as counseling tools is a patient-centered practice when:
  1. The clinician translates scores into handicap severity.
  2. The clinician explains the results in comparison to normative data.
  3. The clinician expands patient discussion with follow-up, open-ended questions.
  4. The clinician explains how scores relate to test results.
10.  Research on family-centered care in audiology indicates:
  1. Audiologists support concept of family-centered care.
  2. Family members are routinely invited to attend appointments.
  3. Family attendance at appointments exceeds 80%.
  4. Family members feel included in appointment discussions.
11.  Involving family members in a patient's treatment plan:
  1. Has minimal impact on the family's experience of "3rd party disability".
  2. Is unrelated to hearing aid satisfaction.
  3. Best differentiates successful from unsuccessful users of hearing aids.
  4. Requires extensive reorganization of clinical space.
12.  One barrier to implementing family-centered practices includes:
  1. Acceptance of the status quo.
  2. Comfort with loss aversion.
  3. Discomfort with unpredictability.
  4. Application of the "knowledge changes behavior" assumption.
13.  Loss aversion is:
  1. A cognitive reaction to the potential pain of change/loss.
  2. Another term for "taking a chance".
  3. The opposite of inertia/no action taken.
  4. Application of the "knowledge changes behavior" assumption.
14.  Evidence from patient appointments as reported by Adams et al. (2012) indicates that:
  1. Clinician responses that focus away from patient emotions likely lead to an antagonistic relationship.
  2. Clinician responses that focus away from patient emotions do not have an impact on patient-clinician relationships.
  3. Neutral responses to patient emotions are the hallmark of the patient-centered clinician.
  4. Neutral responses to patient emotions are not important.
15.  Including a family member in the patient's appointment includes:
  1. Extending an invitation when the appointment is made, making note of the family member's name and arranging the physical environment to facilitate family conversation.
  2. Speaking only to the patient and ignoring the family member.
  3. Not addressing family member questions.
  4. Leaving the family member in the lobby.

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