Exam Preview for 39992: 20Q: Audiologist-Psychologist Collaboration

20Q: Audiologist-Psychologist Collaboration

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1. Why is it important to nurture and respect patient autonomy? It will facilitate their hearing ability, particularly at the high frequency level. It may increase patient adherence to your recommendations and it correlates positively with patient satisfaction It will harm their hearing ability, particularly at the high frequency level. None of the above
2. How is traumatic transference defined? By using an algorithm dating back to the Roman empire By the degree of impairment As the conscious or unconscious redirection of feelings associated with an earlier trauma, such as hearing loss, toward a new person, such as an audiologist By the use of psychological inkblots
3. Why may taking the time to elicit and listen to patients’ stories of loss be psychologically therapeutic (even though the audiologist is not conducting psychotherapy)? It may be a reparative experience of disclosing emotional pain with a supportive other and it is never appropriate to do this because audiologists are not psychotherapists. Most patients have little to say about their emotional lives. Patients do not like to share their personal matters. None of the above
4. Initiating a mental health referral should: Be done carefully so as not to cause the patient to feel shame Be done routinely when a patient looks sad Be done using a team, holistic approach Both A & C
5. Why may collaboration with a mental health professional be beneficial? To minimize the possibility that your negative countertransference impedes treatment and facilitate audiologic care To prevent toxic levels of Vitamin A To prevent toxic levels of Vitamin C None of the above