UPDATED Midterm Exam Questions and Answers 2024

UPDATED Midterm Exam Questions and Answers 2024 Communication style client's ability to communicate in a clear, well-paced, and detailed yet succinct manner that is appropriate to his or her level of developmental level or cognitive ability Need for control Degree to which a client takes an active vs passive role within the relationship and in determining the course of therapy Capacity to assert needs Defines a client's approach to expressing needs for support, info, resources, or other requests within the therapeutic relationship Capacity for trust Client’s ability to trust that the therapist has his or her best interest in mind and that every effort will be made to ensure his or her physical safety and emotional wellbeing Response to change and challenge Client’s ability to adapt to changes in the therapy plan or environment and his or her approach to OT tasks and situations that are new or challenging Affect A client's general emotional expression during therapy, ranging from flexible, to flat, to intensely emotional, to labile Predisposition to giving feedback Ability to provide the therapist with appropriate negative or positive comments about his or her reactions to the therapist and the experience of therapy as either helpful or unhelpful Capacity to receive feedback Client’s ability to maintain perspective when receiving praise or correction during performance, limits on behavior, or info about his or her strengths or weaknesses Response to human diversity A client's reaction to ways in which he or she may be the same or different from the therapist in terms of observable sociodemographic characteristics and other interpretations of outward appearance or perceived worldview. Orientation toward relating A client's need for interpersonal closeness versus professional distance within the therapeutic relationship Preference for touch A client's observed comfort or discomfort with or expressed reaction to any type of physical touch, whether it be a necessary part of treatment or an expression of caring Capacity for reciprocity A client's ability to engage fully in the therapy process and/or show appreciation toward the therapist as a separate but connected partner within the therapy process Examples of inevitable interpersonal events of therapy: -expression of strong emotion -Intimate self-disclosures -power dilemmas -nonverbal cues -empathic breaks Expression of strong emotion Observable manifestations of internal feelings that occur with a higher-than-usual level of intensity given a client's cultural context and norms. Can be positive or negative expressions Intimate self-disclosures Statements or stories that reveal something unobservable, private, or sensitive about the person making the disclosure. Can be about oneself or close others Power dilemmas Feelings of stress or conflict that emerge when the client and therapist disagree about something. Power dilemmas can manifest overly or covertly during therapy. They are more likely to occur when clients feel a lack or loss of control over their lives Nonverbal cues Communications that do not involve the use of formal language Crisis points Unanticipated, stressful events that cause clients to become distracted and/or that temporarily interfere with clients' ability for occupational engagement -i.e. major weather disasters, change in health, etc. Resistance and reluctance Resistance is a client's passive or active refusal to participate in some or all aspects of therapy for reasons linked to the therapeutic relationship. Reluctance is disinclination toward some aspect of therapy for reasons outside the therapeutic relationship, such as client anxiety about task difficulty or other concerns about performance Boundary testing A client behavior that violates or that asks the therapist to act in ways that are outside the defined therapeutic relationship Empathic breaks Any action initiated by the therapist, or something a therapist fails to notice or acknowledge, that results in a client feeling disappointed, disillusioned, insignificant, or emotionally injured Emotionally charged therapy tasks and situations Activities or circumstances that the client feels strongly about due to a past experience, a high level of value for the activity, or due to something embarrassing about the activity Limitations of therapy Restrictions on the available or possible services, time, resources, or nature of the desired relationsh