Psychosocial

• behavior stabilization
• reality testing
• discharge planning
• goal setting

• Global Assessment of Functioning
• 1-100

psychological, social, and occupational functioning

false beliefs in external reality without an appropriate stimulus

• normalizing environmental
• how to achieve goals
• discharge planning

Inability to understand and/or Misinterpretation of sensory information

• I - Clinical Disorders
• II- Mental Retardation, Personality Disorders
• III- General Medical
• IV- Social, environmental
• V- GAF

• behavior monitoring
• maintenance behaviors
• independent living

diffiulty conforming to social norms

• magical thinking
• illusions
• peculiar

feelings of ineptness or unworthiness

socially withdrawy, bland, constricted

• environmental modification
• consulting with teachers/parents
• sensory modulation
• self management

• volition
• habituation
• performance capacity

*environment impacts performance

Difficulty connecting with reality, disturbance of consciousness

• communication skills
• significant impairments

• supported employment
• supervised living
• independence in daily routine

• supported employment
• minimal support

Behavior that deviates markedly from cultural norms in cognition, affect, impulse control, and interpersonal relating

abrupt changing of focus to a loosely associated topic

cognitive of motor activity generally non productive and in response to inner tension

state of restless characterized by an urgent need for movement

Focus: develop an understanding of an individuals task and group interaction

members work on independent projects with minimal interaction

Learning to work together-- enjoy each others company, meet emotional needs.

Responsive to members needs; balance between carrying out the task and meeting members needs

Groups designed to teach specific skills

discussion of activities and issues outside of the group that are current or anticipatedInstrumental Group

meeting health needs and maintaining functions

common short term activities some interaction required; to develop the ability to perform a shared short term activity with another member in a comfortable cooperative member

Focus; to teach and develop members group interaction skills

To increase clients' awareness of their needs, values, ideas, feelings and behaviors as they engage in a group task

Redirection

highly structred

environment free of distractions

redirect thoughts to reality

• set limits
• state reasons that behaviors arent acceptable
• consequences

• highly structured activity
• require shift of focus from patient to patient
• thank patient for participating
• limit setting

• make eye contact
• value and validate
• use positive nonverbal communication
• short simple words
• familiar, enjoyable routine

• degree of structure
• degree of new learning required
• complexity of activity
• length of time for completion
• degree of challenge
• nature and degree of skill required

• 1. Automatic motor response
• 2. Movement associated with comfort
• 3. Exploratoryl use of hands; needs longterm repetitive practice
• 4. simple tasks, visual cues, can't cope with unexpected
• 5. overt trial and error; new learning occurs
• 6. absence of disability, trial and error

excesses or distortions

loss or absence of functioning