Behavioral Care Flashcards
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A patient six months post-sleeve gastrectomy reports eating small amounts of food continuously throughout the day when stressed. Which maladaptive eating pattern does this describe?
Answer: Grazing
Grazing is the repeated consumption of small amounts of food over extended periods, a common post-surgical maladaptive pattern often triggered by emotion.
In motivational interviewing with a bariatric patient ambivalent about exercise, which counselor response best exemplifies reflective listening?
Answer: "It sounds like part of you wants to be more active, but you're worried about joint pain."
Reflective listening mirrors the patient's own ambivalence without judgment, a core motivational interviewing skill.
Which behavioral strategy involves a patient recording everything they eat, along with hunger levels and emotions, to identify eating triggers?
Answer: Self-monitoring
Self-monitoring through food and mood journals is a foundational behavioral technique for building awareness of eating triggers.
A bariatric counselor notices a post-operative patient has replaced compulsive eating with excessive alcohol use. This phenomenon is best described as:
Answer: Addiction transfer
Addiction transfer (cross-addiction) occurs when one compulsive behavior is substituted for another, and alcohol risk is elevated after bariatric surgery.
Which cognitive distortion is a patient displaying when they say, "I ate one cookie, so my whole diet is ruined and I might as well quit"?
Answer: All-or-nothing thinking
All-or-nothing (dichotomous) thinking frames a single lapse as total failure, a distortion strongly linked to diet abandonment.
According to the Transtheoretical Model, a patient who says "I plan to start preparing healthier meals within the next month and have bought a cookbook" is in which stage of change?
Answer: Preparation
The preparation stage involves intending to act within roughly 30 days and taking small concrete steps toward change.
Stimulus control as a weight-management technique would most directly involve which of the following?
Answer: Removing high-calorie snack foods from visible kitchen counters
Stimulus control modifies the environment to reduce cues that trigger unwanted eating behavior.