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TTC - HIV: Effective Tools & Techniques for the Caregiver Post Test

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1.1 What are steps to the “Skills for Conflicting Resolution” technique?
1.2 What are four guidelines in working with health care professionals?
2.1 What are three steps for coping with depression that a client might use?
3.1 What are four additional steps to problem solving that might work well with the flexibility required with HIV positive clients and their care-givers?
5.1 What are two types of suicides?
6.1 What technique might caregivers use for helping an HIV positive friend or family member in overcoming substance abuse?
7.1 What are some ways to manage visitation for clients?
7.2 What are the steps to the “Moving Beyond Guilty Feelings” technique?

Answers:

A. “Be clear about what you want and get to the point as soon as possible.”“Have ready all the information healthcare professionals may need when you call.”“Bring lists of medicines to appointments.”“Be firm and straightforward about getting the information and help you need.”
B. Explain your needs openly, suggest a trial run for implementing the compromise that the two of you agree upon, set a time limit for the trial run for evaluation, choose your battles carefully, ask what’s really important (Are you being stubborn or is the issue really important?), let client make as many decisions as possible
C. Clients foster creativity in dealing with obstacles, they try to remain optimistic but realistic, they develop an orderly plan and review it for its level of reasonability, and clients use as much expert information as possible to find solutions to problems
D. Taking care of personal emotional needs, talking about depression, and decreasing depression
E. Promoting self affirmation
F. Irrational and rational suicide
G. Identify as many guilty feelings as possible, analyze the “if” statements with patient for content, step in the “Moving Beyond Guilty Feelings” technique was to prompt client to dispute any unrealistic guilt, ask the client to write down new feelings to replace the guilty feelings
H. Set special visiting hours, tell visitors if they are staying to long, allowing caregiver to decide whom she will visit

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Questions:

8.1 What are some behaviors that caregivers might identify as challenging among loved ones with AIDS dementia?
10.1 What are the different forms of ideal primary health care services?
11.1 What are some strategies to manage a patients behavior?
12.1 According to De Jong, what is one advantage of a strength-based model?
13.1 What does an intervention focus on?
14.1 What are the methods that can help caregivers distress their emotions?
15.1 What are two helpful ways in which a therapist can explore suicide with a client?
15.2 What might be two helpful ways in which a therapist can explore suicide with a client?
15.3 What might help to develop or reinforce future coping strategies?
16.1 According to Christ, what percentage of AIDS patients live alone?
17.1 What type of intervention is used to prevent negative outcomes among adolescents in families in which there is a parent with AIDS?

Answers:

A. Physical, neuropsychiatric and psychosocial assessment, expertise in treatment of HIV and/or ARD, prescription, pharmacological treatment of depression, expertise in structured environments and in community referral
B. Repetitiveness, aggression, seeking/tracking, and nocturnal problems
C. They celebrate the differences in people, framing diversity as a strength
D. Setting limits, pointing out consequences, and offering alternatives
E. Meditation, relaxation exercises, and visual imaging
F. Identifying stressors and decomposing global stressors into more specific issues; the development of problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies suitable for stressors common to HIV-infected older adults; determining the fit between stressor changeability and the appropriateness of potential coping strategies; and optimizing levels and use of social support
G. Asking clients to rate the intensity of their suicidal thoughts can be useful, offering a 0-10 scale helps in the process of understanding the immediacy of risk
H. 'I can't see the point any more', 'I'm too tired to carry on any more' or 'Everyone would be better off if I weren't here'
I. 75%
J. Coping skills intervention
K. Asking clients how they have kept themselves alive and ways in which they have prevented themselves from acting on their thoughts