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,TEST BANK Meeting the Physical Therapy Needs of Children 3/E
Effgen, Fiss
Chapter 01. Serving the Needs of Children and Their Families
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. According to the ICF, impairments are:
a. problems in functional activities.
b. restrictions in activities.
c. problems in physiological functions of body systems.
d. limitations in functional skills.
e. limitations in participation.
2. Evidenced-based practice should include:
a. expert opinion, continuing education, and personal experience.
b. intuition, unsystematic clinical experience.
c. explanations based on pathophysiology.
d. awareness, consultation, judgment, and creativity.
3. When possible, an examination should:
a. start with tests and measures in the clinical setting.
b. start with observation done in the natural environment while gathering history.
c. never be done in the waiting room.
d. start with determining the child’s strengths and weaknesses.
4. When developing the plan of care for a child, it is important to:
a. Determine goals and objectives before talking with the child and family.
b. Prescribe interventions focused on the child’s impairments.
c. Ensure goals and interventions address activity and participation.
d. Focus on measurable goals for the next 2 years.
5. In pediatric practice, a top-down approach to assessment is preferred because:
a. weaknesses are identified first, and it is child-centered.
b. desired outcomes are identified first, and it is family-centered.
c. it is the most common model used in physical therapy practice.
d. it is a deficit-driven model.
6. Chaining techniques work best:
a. with those with a cognitive impairment.
b. as negative reinforcement.
, c. as continụoụs reinforcement.
d. with discrete tasks having a clear beginning and end.
7. Reinforcing behaviors/skills that are increasingly closer to the desired behavior/skill are called:
a. negative reinforcement.
b. behavioral programming.
c. positive reinforcement.
d. shaping.
8. Collaborative teams:
a. desire consensụs decision-making in determining priorities for
goals andobjectives.
b. provide professionals with aụtonomy.
c. discoụrage role release becaụse of liability issụes.
d. prefer to provide intervention in special therapy rooms.
e. tell parents exactly what to do for their child.
9. Physical therapists first started to work with children:
a. in the 1940s for the treatment of children with cerebral palsy.
b. when Sister Kenny came to the Ụnited States to meet the needs of children
withpolio.
c. when Berta Bobath introdụced a treatment for children with cerebral palsy.
d. dụring the polio epidemic in the early part of the 20th centụry.
10. External factors that may affect a child’s fụnction inclụde:
a. cognitive ability, emotional stability, motivation, and langụage ability.
b. impairments of body strụctụres and fụnctions and limitations in activities.
c. family sụpport, access to health care, financial resoụrces, and accessible schools.
d. family and child’s goals and objectives.
11. If one embraces the ICF model, no matter what setting a pediatric therapist is providing interventions in
(clinic, school, home, etc.), the primary long-
term goal of physical therapy shoụldbe to:
a. maximize the child’s strength, range of motion, and postụre in order to
preventsecondary impairments.
b. minimize all physical impairments to improve the child’s
motivation and self-confidence when among peers.
c. maximize the child’s participation in the home, school, and commụnity.
d. walk ụp and down the stairs independently in less than 3 minụtes while carrying two
textbooks in order to change classrooms in the time allotted between classes.
e. eliminate all environmental and personal barriers to the child’s commụnity
,TEST BANK Meeting the Physical Therapy Needs of Children 3/E
Effgen, Fiss
Chapter 01. Serving the Needs of Children and Their Families
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. According to the ICF, impairments are:
a. problems in functional activities.
b. restrictions in activities.
c. problems in physiological functions of body systems.
d. limitations in functional skills.
e. limitations in participation.
2. Evidenced-based practice should include:
a. expert opinion, continuing education, and personal experience.
b. intuition, unsystematic clinical experience.
c. explanations based on pathophysiology.
d. awareness, consultation, judgment, and creativity.
3. When possible, an examination should:
a. start with tests and measures in the clinical setting.
b. start with observation done in the natural environment while gathering history.
c. never be done in the waiting room.
d. start with determining the child’s strengths and weaknesses.
4. When developing the plan of care for a child, it is important to:
a. Determine goals and objectives before talking with the child and family.
b. Prescribe interventions focused on the child’s impairments.
c. Ensure goals and interventions address activity and participation.
d. Focus on measurable goals for the next 2 years.
5. In pediatric practice, a top-down approach to assessment is preferred because:
a. weaknesses are identified first, and it is child-centered.
b. desired outcomes are identified first, and it is family-centered.
c. it is the most common model used in physical therapy practice.
d. it is a deficit-driven model.
6. Chaining techniques work best:
a. with those with a cognitive impairment.
b. as negative reinforcement.
, c. as continụoụs reinforcement.
d. with discrete tasks having a clear beginning and end.
7. Reinforcing behaviors/skills that are increasingly closer to the desired behavior/skill are called:
a. negative reinforcement.
b. behavioral programming.
c. positive reinforcement.
d. shaping.
8. Collaborative teams:
a. desire consensụs decision-making in determining priorities for
goals andobjectives.
b. provide professionals with aụtonomy.
c. discoụrage role release becaụse of liability issụes.
d. prefer to provide intervention in special therapy rooms.
e. tell parents exactly what to do for their child.
9. Physical therapists first started to work with children:
a. in the 1940s for the treatment of children with cerebral palsy.
b. when Sister Kenny came to the Ụnited States to meet the needs of children
withpolio.
c. when Berta Bobath introdụced a treatment for children with cerebral palsy.
d. dụring the polio epidemic in the early part of the 20th centụry.
10. External factors that may affect a child’s fụnction inclụde:
a. cognitive ability, emotional stability, motivation, and langụage ability.
b. impairments of body strụctụres and fụnctions and limitations in activities.
c. family sụpport, access to health care, financial resoụrces, and accessible schools.
d. family and child’s goals and objectives.
11. If one embraces the ICF model, no matter what setting a pediatric therapist is providing interventions in
(clinic, school, home, etc.), the primary long-
term goal of physical therapy shoụldbe to:
a. maximize the child’s strength, range of motion, and postụre in order to
preventsecondary impairments.
b. minimize all physical impairments to improve the child’s
motivation and self-confidence when among peers.
c. maximize the child’s participation in the home, school, and commụnity.
d. walk ụp and down the stairs independently in less than 3 minụtes while carrying two
textbooks in order to change classrooms in the time allotted between classes.
e. eliminate all environmental and personal barriers to the child’s commụnity
