Managing Post-Operative Adjustments Flashcards
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A post-operative client experiences flushing, cramping, and diarrhea after eating sugary foods. When counseling this client, the symptoms should be framed as what?
Answer: Dumping syndrome, which can serve as feedback to reinforce dietary adherence
These are classic dumping syndrome symptoms, and counselors help clients use them as feedback to guide food choices.
Which client is showing the most appropriate use of self-monitoring during post-operative adjustment?
Answer: One who logs food, protein, and fluids daily and reviews patterns weekly with their counselor
Consistent, balanced logging reviewed for patterns supports adjustment, unlike compulsive weighing or selective recording.
A client 2 months post-surgery wants to return to intense exercise immediately. What is the counselor's most appropriate role?
Answer: Support motivation while reinforcing the medical team's cleared activity timeline
The counselor channels motivation while deferring activity clearance to the medical team, staying within scope.
Which statement about vitamin and mineral supplementation is most important for counselors to reinforce during post-operative adjustment?
Answer: Lifelong supplementation is required because absorption is permanently altered
Malabsorptive changes are permanent, so lifelong supplementation adherence is a critical counseling reinforcement point.
A client reports night-time grazing when anxious, despite following their plan all day. Which intervention pairing is most appropriate?
Answer: Stimulus control for the evening environment plus anxiety-focused coping skills
Night grazing driven by anxiety requires both environmental stimulus control and skills that address the underlying emotion.
When a client's rapid weight loss stalls and they ask, "Was all this sacrifice worth it?", which counseling technique is most useful first?
Answer: Reviewing their original values and goals to reconnect motivation with meaning
Reconnecting the client to their own values and original goals is a motivational approach that restores purpose during doubt.
A counselor notices a post-operative client increasingly relies on compulsive shopping since food restriction began. What is the most appropriate action?
Answer: Assess for maladaptive coping substitution and address underlying emotional regulation needs
New compulsive behaviors after restricting food suggest coping substitution, requiring assessment and emotion-regulation work.