Pro Skills Final Test

What is self-awareness in a professional relationship?

Seeing ourselves more clearly, often enhanced through practices like mindfulness, meditation, yoga, journaling, and seeking feedback from loved ones.

What is self-disclosure?

Communication that involves intentionally sharing personal information about oneself with another person.

What are the benefits of self-disclosure in a therapeutic context?

Self-disclosure can form or strengthen a connection with the client, maintain presence, and engage clients in therapeutic recreation activities.

What is transference in the context of client-practitioner relationships?

Client’s feelings toward practitioner that are related to the client’s past experiences and relationships.

What is countertransference?

Practitioner’s feelings toward client that are related to past experiences and relationships.

What is the importance of immediacy in communication?

Immediacy involves staying in the 'here and now' to help clients examine their immediate relationships during therapy.

What is the 'dance of disclosure' related to empathy?

It refers to knowing when and what to share while keeping the focus on the client.

What are the differences between empathy and sympathy as defined by Brene Brown?

Empathy is feeling with someone, while sympathy is feeling for someone.

What does cultural competence involve?

The ability to interact effectively with people of various cultural, racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, religious, and social groups.

What is cultural humility?

Understanding personal and systemic biases, maintaining respectful processes and relationships based on mutual trust, and acknowledging oneself as a learner.

What are microaggressions?

Subtle verbal or nonverbal insults, indignities, or denigrating messages directed towards an individual due to their marginalized identity.

What actions can one take to support Indigenous communities?

Self-education, self-interrogation, supporting Indigenous businesses, making space for Indigenous voices, and speaking up against racism.

What are the 5 effective teamwork skills?

1. Self-awareness

2. Interaction and collaboration with team colleagues

3. Networking

4. Assertiveness

5. Professionalism

What are some of the needs for collaborative work?

The population is aging which means there are more complex needs and chronic diseases coming into place.

Increases complexity of skills and knowledge, specialization within health care, different people with different knowledge, and continuous care and quality.

What does multidisciplinary mean?

All independently working with different role distinctions, specific tasks and levels of authority.

What does interdisciplinary mean?

Each person meets to share information and discuss client care with different sets of expertise to collaborate coming to a final plan of care.

What does transdisciplinary mean?

Shared framework across a group of people.