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Through Disability Management
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Questions based on the article, "The Origins of Occupational Disability, a Formulation of Disability Management, and the Need for Good Public Policy"

1. A relatively new but important concept in medical treatment is:

Adverse Work Experiences
Adverse Childhood Episodes
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Adverse Challenging Experiences


2. Two basic models have been used in the development and conduction of quality Disability Management programs: the Biomedical and the Biopsychosocial models. Which of these two models has largely been discredited as a useful approach to disability management in the workplace?

Biomedical
Biopsychosocial


3. ACE scores reveal the exposure in childhood of each of the following except:

Frequent absences from school
Emotional abuse
Mental illness in the household
Incarcerated household member


4. The concept of the Behan and Hirschfeld research on employees of the automobile manufacturing business in 1966 was:

disease with disability
disability with disease
disability without disease
disease without disability


5. Work disability is commonly the end result of a complex process rather than the:

result of the individual employee's social status
direct consequence of the employee's relationship to his/her supervisor
result of years of planning for the event
direct consequences of a specific accident or illness


6. Attributional style is defined as how one has learned to:

manipulate the primary culture of a specific workplace
perceive life events
organize fellow workers to resist workplace changes
influence/control his/her supervisor


7. A highly effective process for dealing with anger and conflict in the workplace is called:

managerial officiousness
managerial meditation
managerial mediation
managerial control


8. Positive Psychology is a branch of psychology that shifts the focus from the traditional method of treating dysfunction to one of teaching a positive approach to life:

True
False


9. In order to manage their human resources effectively, the article urges employers to take responsibility:

for implementing a quality anger-management program
for creating initiatives to effectively change public policy to benefit the workplace
for adopting the basic principles of Positive Psychology to disability management programs
for designing and implement hiring policies designed to take in more individuals with ACE scores


10. The article states that Disability Proneness:

is not an appropriate (or true) descriptor used in workplace methods
is a term that specifically refers to older workers
generally refers more to male employees than to female employees
exists in every work population


11. In terms of "resilience," which of the following is an issue:

Does resilience work for everybody?
Is resilience something you either have or don't have?
Are the public schools responsible for teaching resilience?
Can individuals learn how to be more resilient?


12. Which of the following is not a Wrzesniewski category of the perspective a worker might take:

calling
job
recreational pursuit
career


13. "Flow" occurs when the individual is:

sporadically engrossed
totally engrossed
averting being engrossed
partially engrossed


14. Employers and employer groups have a responsibility to take an interest in:

public policy
public welfare issues
unemployment numbers
workers' compensation issues


15. While the traditional "light duty" approach is discouraged, which of the following is recommended in its place:

Transition-to-Work
Workers' Compensation (in most states)
Intensified resilience training
Better training for supervisors

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