DSP 1010 - Human Body Health and Disease

1. Discuss mental health, social service, and holistic client needs
   1. List Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
   2. List developmental tasks associated with the aging process
   3. Discuss modification of assistant behavior in response to client behavior 
   4. Discuss responding to client behavior 
   5. Discuss allowing client’s to make personal choices, providing and reinforcing behavior consistent with the client’s dignity
   6. Discuss the client’s family as a source of emotional support 
   7. Discuss cultural diversity 
   8. Discuss human sexuality 
2. Discuss caring for client’s when death is imminent 
   1. List stages of dying
   2. List signs of dying 
   3. Define hospice 
   4. Discuss postmortem care 
   5. Discuss the needs of terminal clients and family 
3. Discuss mental health problems including but not limited to anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, psychotic disorders, affective disorders, organic/inorganic disorders.
   1. Define panic disorder, phobic disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
   2. Define schizophrenia 
   3. Define bipolar disorder 
   4. Define and discuss depression 
   5. Define and discuss dementia
   6. Define and discuss delirium 
   7. Discuss common defense mechanisms 
   8. Discuss care of the cognitively impaired including techniques for addressing the needs and behaviors of individuals with dementia (AD and others).
   9. Discuss understanding the behavior of the cognitively impaired client 
   10. Identify appropriate responses to the behavioral or cognitive impaired residents and methods to reduce effects of cognitive impairments