Mental Health Disorders
A pathological disturbance of attitudes and behaviors related to food.
What is Eating Disorder
HIPAA falls under this principle
What is Confidentiality
The most common interpreting mode used in mental health sessions, where the interpreter speaks after the patient and provider.
What is consecutive interpreting?
This term describes when an interpreter feels emotionally drained due to exposure to distressing stories.
What is vicarious trauma?
True or False: In some cultures, mental illness is believed to be caused by supernatural forces rather than medical conditions.
what is true?
Any of a group of mood disorders in which symptoms of mania and depression alternate. The individual fluctuates from hypomania and major depressive episodes.
Bipolar disorder
If a patient asks for your personal advice during a session, these 2 ethical principles advise against this.
What is Role Boundaries and Impartiality
True or False: It is acceptable for an interpreter to summarize the patient’s long response to save time.
What is false?
One reason why interpreting for a patient experiencing psychosis can be difficult
What is disorganized or illogical speech?
Why might a patient avoid making direct eye contact with a mental health provider?
what is cultural respect or distrust of authority?
Pressured speech is a characteristic of this disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
True or False, An interpreter can omit a word or phrase if they believe it is too distressing for the patient.
What is false?
This interpreting mode is used in group therapy or when a provider needs to hear real-time responses.
What is simultaneous interpreting?
A strategy interpreters can use to manage emotional stress after intense sessions
What is debriefing with a supervisor or practicing self-care techniques?
Interpreter may assume this role when cultural misunderstandings arise?
what is cultural broker?
A person with this disorder may experience flashbacks, nightmares, and hypervigilance after a traumatic event.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
This ethical principle requires an interpreter to stay neutral and avoid influencing the conversation.
What is impartiality?
If a patient uses a cultural idiom to describe their mental state, the interpreter should do this.
What is translate literally and then explain or offer a culturally appropriate equivalent if necessary?
If a provider is using complex medical terms that the interpreter doesn’t understand, they should do this
What is ask for clarification before interpreting?
Interpreter discloses details of the child's therapy session to the mother when they meet at a cultural community event .
What is breach of confidentiality/ HIPAA?
Name one key difference between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in terms of symptom presentation.
What is schizophrenia primarily involves hallucinations and delusions, while bipolar disorder is characterized by mood episodes of mania.
* speech patterns may differ too
If an interpreter believes a patient is in immediate danger but the clinician does not address it, what should they do?
What is follow institutional protocols, such as reporting to a supervisor or mental health professional?
*advocate
In cases where speech is too disorganized for direct interpretation, interpreters may need to use this mode to capture the essence of what is being said without restructuring it.
What is Descriptive mode ?
One common reason a patient may refuse to speak directly to the provider and instead talk to the interpreter
What is cultural differences?
This term refers to when an individual uses their cultural lenses to judge other cultures/ view their own culture as superior.
what is ethnocentrism ?