Assessing Occupational Disability Following Trauma and Impairment
According to the article:

1. Which of the following is not an integrated component of disability assessment:
psychometric data
medical data
legal data
educational data

2. Notwithstanding the growing appreciation for the difference between medical and occupational disability, many physicians are asked to determine:
the severity of the disability
the approximate length of the treatment
vocational capacity
endurance capacity

3. Which of the following is not an aspect of differentiating among the phenomena of an assessment:
impairment
trauma
disability
the age of the injured person

4. The definition that includes “an abrupt physical disruption in ordinary daily experience” is cited in the article as describing:
trauma
an accident
disability
impairment

5. “Dissociative symptoms” that accompany trauma may include all of the following except:
derealization
surreal/fantastic dreams
amnesia
stupor

6. Acute stress disorder should resolve within how many weeks after the conclusion of the traumatic event:
4
6
8
10

7. Most mental disorders can be classified as:
non-exertional impairments
non-exertional disabilities
non-exertional traumas
non-exertional events

8. Mental and emotional disorders are diagnosed and assessed by:
physicians and neuroscientists
supervisors and work colleagues
psychiatrists and psychologists
medical specialists

9. GAF stands for:
gross arterial fractures
gratuitous assessments of facts
grand assertional functionality
global assessment of functioning

10. “Real world meaningfulness of data gathering activities” is the definition given to:
ecological validity
ecological reliability
ecological responsibility
ecological trauma

11. “The family physician…is commonly called upon to…assess occupational capacity.”
true
false

12. Assessment strategies for determining disability are dictated by the nature of the impairments present:
during the treatment phase
at the time of re-entry into the workplace
after the treatment phase
at the time of the evaluation

13. Findings of impairment should not be considered equivalent to:
trauma
adequate treatment
disability
the individual’s capacity to work

14. In cases of personal injury where a disability assessment is required, the person most qualified to make the assessment is the:
physician
employee’s work supervisor
vocational expert
workers’ compensation official

15. Despite its broad acceptance in the field of disability evaluation, “transferability of skills” analysis is:
a comprehensive and widely used methodology
not comprehensive enough to adequately assess disability
the desired means of determining suitability for a specific job
not a method widely know among disability professionals

16. The process of assessing disability is enhanced by the:
attitude of the injured person
skill of the disability professional
review of critical documentation
discharge from treatment documentation

17. The “clinical interview” is considered a non-essential element of a disability assessment:
true
false

18. Before conducting a clinical interview, the examiner should:
gather the relevant documentation
consult with the medical professionals who treated the client
invest time in practicing the required skills
determine the potential for a positive resolution of the case

19. Which of the following is not mentioned as an observation the evaluator should note:
the length of time since the relevant medical treatment
the person’s emotional response to different questions
how the individual is dressed
the person’s body language

20. Many published assessment measures are as reliable as which of the following:
ecologically valid assessments
personality-determining instruments and IQ tests
the Career Ability Placement Survey
x-rays and CT scans


Application of the FCE by Vocational Experts
According to the article:

1. A disability evaluation consists of all of the following except:
a review of pertinent medical information
a physician’s report on disability
a clinical interview
vocational testing

2. The acronym RFC stands for:
residual forensic capacity
residential forensic commission
residual functional capacity
regenerative functioning certainty

3. The RFC is a report of what the impaired person is able to do:
as prescribed by a certified functional capacity evaluator
under supervision
as reported in a medical release report
physically and/or mentally

4. The focus of the December 2004 Journal of Forensic Vocational Analysis was to:
reorganize the field of functional capacity evaluations
recognize the need to legalize functional capacity evaluations
redistribute responsibility between functional capacity evaluators and vocational evaluators
recognize the need to improve functional testing

5. For many years, the legal system and employers relied on physicians to make statements as to whether an injured individual could work.
true
false

6. Too frequently, physicians responded to items on a checklist in terms of the patient’s physical ability to perform:
above average
in heavy industrial work sites
“light duty” assignments
work-related tasks

7. Physicians are not formally trained to define:
how employers should define return-to-work programs
the implications of a misdiagnosis
an individual’s occupational capacities
the severity of an impairment

8. Which of the following may be asked to provide return-to-work assistance:
vocational experts
rehabilitation counselors

9. According to Dakos, the role of the vocational expert in considering the findings of a functional capacity evaluation is that of a(n):
decider/determiner
provider/facilitator
interpreter/translator
physician’s assistant/medical professional

10. Efforts to employ the federal definitions of work in functional capacity evaluations would prove:
helpful to the process of conducting accurate vocational assessments
unreasonable to expect of functional capacity evaluators
inconsistent with commonly-practiced court litigation methods
to be of little value to vocational experts’ litigations

The Workipedia Lexicon
According to the article:

1. Which of the following is not a test in the ADA as to whether an individual is deemed “disabled”:
he or she has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of his/her major life activities
he or she has a record of such impairments
he or she is regarded as having such an impairment
he or she cannot be considered to be substantially limited by non-covered life activities

2. In terms of career development, Dr. Richard Lapan of the University of Missouri specifically developed and tested which one of the following:
young people who are exposed to career development principles will be more likely to easily settle on a post-secondary career choice
young people exposed to career development principles at a young age will fare better as adults
young people who are exposed to career development realities through the school years will do better in their adult work lives than those who don’t have such exposures
young people who are exposed to career development principles will generally stick to their original choice of a college major

3. Another term for “attribution theory” is:
occupational evaluation
vocational attribution
functional capacity evaluation
causal attribution

4. An employee who has a predisposition toward disabling disease or injury is said to be disability prone:
true
false

5. A mental state in which an individual becomes fully immersed in what he or she is doing is called:
positive psychology
fraud
flow
total involvement

6. An external motivator that the patient assumes to gain sympathy or advantage by exaggerating the symptom is called a:
primary gain
secondary gain
tertiary gain
quatuary gain

7. The critical, key aspect of transition-to-work is that:
the return is developed incrementally
the return is required under the bargaining unit agreement
the return is achieved with a mutually agreed to outcome
the return is approved by the worker’s supervisor

8. An unwritten agreement between an employee and his/her employer is called a:
social interference
social encounter
social contract
social disagreement

9. A vocational expert is a rehabilitation professional with the credentials to:
administer personality assessments
supervise vocational rehabilitation interns
evaluate the compliance with the ADA of a workplace
provide vocational testimony in court proceedings

10. Which of the following is not given as a value in action in Seligman’s positive psychology work:
gratitude
playfulness
perseverance
hate

11. The FMLA includes provisions for all except which of the following:
caring for an immediate family member
when the employee has a serious health condition
to observe a religious holiday
the birth and care of a newborn child of an employee

12. “Macular degeneration” refers to:
a musculoskeletal condition
a chronic heart condition
an inflammation in and around the cheek bone
a chronic disease of the eyes

13. “Kennedy’s Disease” belongs to a group of disorders called:
spinal muscular atrophy
the atrophy of visual acuity
degeneration of bone tissues
the atrophy of one’s hearing capacity

14. An artificial body part that replaces a missing one is called a:
pathology
paresthesia
primary gain
prosthesis

15. Ergonomics is:
an infection in the ear
the application of ego-building exercises
a recent catch-all term for infectious diseases
a term used to mean how systems or environments are designed to accommodate their use

16. Essential functions are used in job descriptions to identify the:
least amount of work expected of an employee
basic requirement of all employers
minimum required duties necessary to perform the tasks of a job
absolute maximum number of assignments a manager can give a worker

17. The highest level of need in Maslow’s hierarchy is:
wellness and safety
self-actualization
self-esteem
physical and mental achievement

18. The term sometimes used to describe employees who go to work when they are sick is:
primary gain
presenteeism
non-productive
absenteeism

19. An acronym used to describe the condition of many soldiers who return from military combat is:
PTSD
MCD
PSSS
Combat Fatigue

20. The term “ageism” refers to discrimination against a person’s:
race
gender
sex
age

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