Mental Health and Rehabilitation Flashcards
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Which model of psychiatric rehabilitation emphasizes building on an individual's existing strengths rather than focusing on deficits?
Answer: Strengths-based model
The strengths-based model focuses on identifying and leveraging a person's existing skills, resources, and positive attributes to support recovery.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is best characterized by which feature?
Answer: 24/7 multidisciplinary team support in community settings
ACT provides around-the-clock support through a multidisciplinary team that delivers services directly in the community rather than clinic settings.
The concept of 'psychiatric disability' differs from 'mental illness' in that it refers specifically to:
Answer: Functional limitations resulting from mental illness in daily life roles
Psychiatric disability refers to the functional impairments and participation restrictions in social, vocational, and daily living roles caused by mental illness.
Which therapeutic approach is specifically designed to help individuals with psychosis by examining and modifying distorted beliefs about their symptoms?
Answer: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp)
CBTp uses cognitive restructuring and behavioral experiments to help individuals reassess distressing beliefs about psychotic experiences.
In the context of mental health rehabilitation, 'supported employment' most closely follows which model?
Answer: Place-and-train model
Supported employment uses a 'place-and-train' approach, placing clients in competitive jobs first and then providing on-the-job supports.
Which principle of psychiatric rehabilitation holds that recovery is possible for all individuals with severe mental illness?
Answer: Hopefulness
The principle of hopefulness asserts that recovery is achievable and that practitioners must maintain optimistic, positive expectations for all clients.
A peer specialist in mental health services is defined as someone who:
Answer: Has lived experience of mental illness and uses this to support others
Peer specialists draw on their own recovery journey from mental illness to provide empathy, guidance, and role modeling to others in treatment.