Time Use And Habits Test Bank Ch28

Chapter 28: Time Use and Habits

Multiple Choice

1. Occupational therapy practitioners believe time use is influenced by multiple factors. One of those factors involves a position one assumes that has associated responsibilities and expectations such as mother or student. Which factor does this best represent?

a. Interests

b. Physical abilities

c. Roles

d. Environment

Topic: Time Use and Occupational Balance

LO: 28.1

2. Occupational balance can best be described as _________.

a. Engagement in a variety of activities and occupations to meet an individual’s occupational needs

b. Engagement in a satisfying pattern of daily occupations

c. Engagement in activities that are familiar and automatic

d. Engagement in activities that give meaning to daily occupations

Topic: Time Use and Occupational Balance

LO: 28.2

3. Taking a shower is an example of an automatic activity that can also be classified as ____________.

a. Occupational balance

b. Lifestyle balance

c. Habit

d. Routine

Topic: Habits and Routines

LO: 28.3

4. When you asked your client about her leisure interests, she states she spends most of her time watching TV or playing computer games. This can best be described as ____________.

a. Active leisure

b. Passive leisure

c. Maladaptive leisure

d. Occupational imbalance

Topic: Time Use in Individuals With Mental Illness

5. Which of the following most accurately represents older adulthood related to time usage?

a. Engagement in meaningful activities may increase life satisfaction.

b. Older adults demonstrate significantly lower levels of well-being.

c. Older adults spend 40% of their time sleeping throughout the day.

d. Older adults spend less time in grooming and self-care activities.

Topic: Time Use Across the Life Span

LO: 28.5

6. You are working in a community mental health center and are concerned your clients are experiencing occupational imbalance. You want to adopt an assessment that will allow your clients to report how they spend their time on a typical day. In addition, the clients are asked to identify their level of competence and enjoyment related to the activity, as well as how important it is to them. Which assessment would you choose?

a. Assessment of time management skills

b. Occupational questionnaire

c. Profiles of occupational engagement with severe mental illness

d. Engagement in meaningful activity scale

Topic: Assessment

LO: 28.6

7. Following the collection of data of how your clients are using their time, you decide you need to get a better understanding of how meaningful their time usage is. You want to get a better understanding of the satisfaction your clients get from the activities they participate in, if they find the activities challenging, and if the activities are a reflection of who your clients are. In addition, you want an assessment that will give you an overall score of their level of satisfaction so you can measure change. Which assessment would you choose?

a. Assessment of time management skills

b. Occupational questionnaire

c. Profiles of occupational engagement with severe mental illness

d. Engagement in meaningful activity scale

Topic: Assessment

LO: 28.6 & 28.7

8. You are looking for an intervention to use with your clients with serious mental illness to increase occupational balance. You are interested in an approach that incorporates the following: identifying the clients’ need for change and how they are currently spending their time, providing education on the benefits of engagement in meaningful activities, engaging in long-term goal planning, and regularly monitoring and refining plans as needed. Which intervention would you choose?

a. Redesigning daily occupations

b. The development of habits and routines

c. Action Over Inertia

d. Supported employment

Topic: Interventions

LO: 28.8

9. Which of the following is the most important consideration for occupational therapy practitioners when working with a client on habit and routine development?

a. Focus on multiple activities at one time to support multitasking.

b. Ensure a clear understanding of the client’s strengths and limitations.

c. Begin training in the clinic to assure clients’ ability to engage in an activity.

d. Use temporal variation to avoid rote learning.

Topic: Interventions

LO: 28.8

10. “Occupational balance” is best defined as ___________.

a. Having the same amount of hours each day in the “three main areas” of work, leisure, and rest

b. A congruence between the individual’s desired level of engagement in activities and his or her actual level of engagement in activities

c. Limiting working hours to not more than 8 hours per day

d. Being able to fit at least 6 hours of active leisure into each day

Rationale: “Occupational balance” can only be defined subjectively as a mix of activities that are satisfying to the individual. Any attempt to objectively define “occupational balance” is problematic and does not respect the fact that different individuals will have different desires for their occupational experiences.

Topic: Time Use and Occupational Balance

11. Time use research suggests that, when compared with the general population, individuals with serious mental illness tend to spend less time in what types of activities?

a. Home maintenance and self-care activities

b. Productivity and active leisure activities

c. Passive leisure and rest/sleep activities

d. Family and social activities

Rationale: Time use research demonstrates that people with serious mental illness are less likely to spend time in productive activities (as many of these individuals are unemployed) and are also less likely to engage in active leisure activities such as sport or active hobbies.

Topic: Time Use in Individuals With Mental Illness

12. Time use research suggests that, compared with the general population, individuals with serious mental illness tend to spend more time in what types of activities?

a. Home maintenance and self-care activities

b. Productivity and active leisure activities

c. Passive leisure and rest/sleep activities

d. Family and social activities

Rationale: Time use research suggests that individuals with serious mental illness spend about 1 to 2 hours more than the general population sleeping and are more likely to take naps during the day. They are also more likely to spend more time in passive leisure activities such as watching television or “doing nothing in particular.”

Topic: Time Use in Individuals With Mental Illness

13. People with serious mental illness may experience several barriers to engaging in meaningful activities. Which set of descriptors is best reflective of the barriers to meaningful activity that may be experienced by individuals living with serious mental illness?

a. Lack of awareness

b. Lack of money, lack of access to activity partners, lack of time structure, and difficulties with motivation and planning

c. Symptoms of serious mental illness

d. Unwillingness of the person to engage in meaningful activities

Rationale: Although lack of awareness and symptoms of serious mental illness may have some influence over engagement in meaningful activities, it is lack of money, lack of access to activity partners, lack of time structure, and difficulties that may be present in terms of motivation and planning that have the most significant impact on people’s ability to engage in meaningful activities.

Topic: Time Use in Individuals With Mental Illness

14. Supporting individuals with serious mental illness to engage in paid work can be helpful for developing more satisfying patterns of time use. Which of the following best explains this concept?

a. It stops people from being a burden on the welfare system.

b. Employment stops people from being lazy.

c. Not only does employment provide the individual with the opportunity to engage in productive activities, but it also helps to structure time, build social networks, and generally gives the individual more money to spend on enjoyable activities.

d. Employment reduces people’s time for leisure, so it helps to create “occupational balance.”

Rationale: Employment has a range of benefits for individuals with serious mental illness. Most people with serious mental illness want to work and employment in good quality work roles provides money, time structure, status and esteem, a sense of purpose, social connections, and a range of other benefits, all of which can support more optimal patterns of time use. Even though work takes up many hours of people’s days, individuals who are engaged in employment typically report greater involvement in satisfying leisure activities when compared with people who are not employed.

Topic: Time Use in Individuals With Mental Illness