Conditions
Impulsiveness, disorganization, difficulty focusing, and forgetfulness are symptoms of this condition
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
A response to the inhumane treatment of people with mental illness who were living in asylums
What is the moral treatment movement?
Four dimensions that support recovery
What are health, home, purpose, and community?
Food journaling, exploring leisure/self-expression activities, and education on proper nutrition are interventions used for this diagnosis
What are Eating disorders?
The irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness, combined with irreversible loss of capacity to breathe; the cessation of all vital signs
What is the legal definition of death?
The largest part of the brain and plays a role in memory, attention, thought, language, and consciousness
What is the Cerebrum?
Lack of facial expressions, and difficulty with social interaction, communication, and behavior are symptoms of this condition.
What is autism?
A concept based on the idea of disorganized habits presenting major problems in mental illness.
What is Habit Training?
A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential
What is recovery?
OTs educate teachers on wobble stools, sensory integration, visual schedules, planning strategies, and impulse control for students with this diagnosis
What is ADD/ADHD?
The medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing
What is the definition of clinical death?
Is involved in choosing between good and bad actions, predicting the consequences of our actions; suppressing unacceptable social behavior; involved in storing long-term memories
What is the frontal lobe?
This condition is characterized by angry and irritable moods, opposition to authority, arguing, and being vindictive.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
A settlement agency that met the needs of immigrants in Chicago in the early 1900's
What is Hull House?
First hand accounts based on personal experience
What is a lived experience?
This condition affects every area of occupation, with struggles to complete school and find employment, emotional regulation is a problem, along with deficits in social awareness, and low muscle tone that limits the ability to complete self-care routines
What are Intellectual disabilities?
The five stages of grief
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
Helps to put letters in order when reading and writing, and numbers in calculations; is responsible for the body's sense of knowing where our arms and legs are in relation to the rest of our body; helps to locate objects in three dimensions.
What are the parietal lobes?
Characterized by an impending sense of doom, dizziness, chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and the feeling of losing control
What is Panic disorder?
Left his entire estate to build a mental health hospital in Baltimore, Maryland
Who is Moses Sheppard?
Emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, environmental, financial, occupational, and social
What are the Eight Dimensions of Wellness?
Social skills practice and role play help to promote appropriate social interactions. Emotional regulation and sensory processing are addressed. Trigger identification and practice taking turns and impulse control activities are used.
What is Conduct disorder?
Making promises to change if a loss is returned
What is bargaining?
Helps us understand what we see and hear around us; involved with remembering and recognizing faces, objects, and scenes; involved in language
What are the temporal lobes?
Characterized by manic and depressive episodes, impulsivity and distractibility may damage relationships and impair social participation
What are Bipolar disorders?
Came about in reaction to industrialization and mechanization of society
What is the Arts and Crafts Movement?
A conceptual framework developed by OT clinicians and researchers to provide a systematic way to analyze complex occupational performance issues
What is the Person-Environment-Occupation Model?
5-4-3-2-1 grounding, progressive muscle relaxation, breathing techniques, trigger identification, and body awareness are interventions used for people with this disorder
What is Panic Disorder?
Acute sadness when great loss begins to affect your life
What is depression?
Build up of amyloid and Tau in Alzheimer's diseases begins here; damaged nerve cells here can lead to early signs of Alzheimer's disease
What is the hippocampus?
Prevalent in autism spectrum disorder, where brain cells experience difficulty receiving and responding to information received through the senses.
What is sensory processing disorder?
Known as the Father of occupational therapy and a strong advocate for engagement in activities
Who is William Rush Dunton Jr.?
This type of group provides members with information about specific issues, teaches healthy coping skills, is led by a qualified therapist, and the therapist takes on the role of "teacher"
What is a psychoeducational group?
This disorder is treated with CBT, exposure therapy, eye movement desensitization, and reprocessing to help with nightmares, and flashbacks
What is PTSD?
A defense mechanism that involves ignoring the reality of a situation
What is denial
Interprets information from the eyes; determines the shape, color, and movement of things we are looking at; produces the dreams we experience when we sleep
What is the occipital lobe?
A serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally; results in hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking; requires lifelong treatment
What is schizophrenia?
This month is designated as mental health awareness month
What is May?
This type of group is made up of people who are directly affected by a particular issue, illness, or circumstance
What is a peer-support group?
OT treatments include vocational training, social skills practice, sensory rooms, supportive housing, and peer support groups can be beneficial. These clients have an unkempt appearance, a flat affect combine with hallucinations.
What is schizophrenia?
Blotchy skin on the hands, feet, and knees
What is mottled?
Helps control movement, balance, and posture; is also involved in attention and language
What is the cerebellum?