Deck 1: Conceptualizing Functioning, Disability, and Health

Question 1

ICF provides an international standard for describing and measuring health domains and is a universal classification of functional status associated with a number of:

A) health conditions
B) disabilities
C) impairments
D) diseases

Answer 1

A

Question 2

A key component of the social model is:

A) civil rights
B) human rights
C) equality
D) reasonable accommodation

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) emphasizes:

A) integration of health conditions
B) societal factors
C) environmental and personal factors
D) all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

___________________ is defined as a restriction of lack of ability to perform an activity.

A) Function
B) Disability
C) Health
D) Illness

Question 5

The core structure of the ICF is divided into two parts, each with two components. The first part is:

A) functional impact and disability
B) function and activity
C) function and participation
D) function and body structure

Question 6

The biopsychosocial model uses concepts from what two models of disability?

A) Medical and personal
B) Social and health
C) Social and medical
D) Medical and environmental

Question 7

What does the medical model rely heavily upon?

A) Conforming to social norms
B) Measures and tests of the disease process
C) Functionality
D) Psychological factors

Question 8

Physical and psychological functions are components of:

A) experience
B) health
C) cures
D) classifications

Question 9

Which of the following is one of the uses of the ICF?

A) Serve as a catalyst for diagnoses
B) Clarifies team roles
C) Highlights the impact of social factors
D) Structure to facilitate comparisons

Question 10

__________refers to a deviation from certain generally accepted population standards of function.

A) Impairment
B) Ability
C) Disability
D) Disruption

Question 11

The focus of the ICF is on health and function in the relationship to the client's disability. Discuss the four key terms in its conceptual framework, and how these definitions have changed the views of society toward health conditions.

Question 12

Mr. Thomas was involved in a farm accident resulting in the above-knee amputation of his left leg. He now wears a prosthesis and continues full operation of all his previous farming activities. Discuss how his injury has not caused him to be considered disabled. Address the following issues:
A. How one client would be resilient following an impairment while another client would not be able to function at their previous levels?
B. Societal and environmental factors in Mr. Thomas's lifestyle.
C. Future changes that Mr. Thomas might experience.

Question 13

Compare and contrast the optimal functioning versus maximum functioning:
A. Which one is the ideal goal
B. Strengths versus weaknesses of each one
C. Understanding of the condition by the client within the context of their relationship between their environment and their own frame of reference

Question 14

Within the core structure of the classifications developed by the ICF, discuss how the environmental factors are divided into the three various levels.

A) Individual level
B) Services level
C) Cultural/legal systems level

Question 15

Discuss how understanding of health conditions as an experience rather than as a medical condition can help to decrease discrimination and prejudice of chronic illnesses and disabilities.

Question 16

Discuss the individual focuses and primary differences of the following three disability models.
A. Medical
B. Social
C. Biopsychological

Question 17

The biopsychosocial model states that numerous factors play a role in an individual's ability to function. Discuss how the three following factors affected either a health condition you or someone close to you has experienced.
A. Biological
B. Psychological
C. Social factor

Question 18

The ICF can serve as a catalyst for research. Discuss a health condition where more research is needed and how the ICF can help.

Question 19

Discuss how conceptualizing chronic illness and disability as health conditions in the context of the continuum of health and function helps to decrease stigmatization and isolation.

Question 20

The social model paralleled the civil rights/human rights movements in the United States. Why was this time in history so important in helping to change the viewpoints regarding the models of disability?