Maude Laliberté and Anne Hudon | Do Conflicts of Interest

question 60

Multiple Choice

Maude Laliberté and Anne Hudon | Do Conflicts of Interest Create a New Professional Norm? Physical Therapists and Workers' Compensation
Laliberté and Hudon compare conflicts of interest that arise between physical therapists and worker's compensation to those arising between sports medicine physicians and the athletes they treat. Both types of clinicians find themselves caught between offering the best treatment to their individual clients and the need to answer to the needs of the organization. Conflicts of type and length of treatments arise as well as opportunities to behave unethically that may eventually result in a new norm for the entire profession.
-Pressure to return a patient to the job or team can result in the ___________ of treatment before recovery is complete.

• A) continuation
• B) termination
• C) increase
• D) right type

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Definitions:

Passive

A behavior or attitude characterized by submission or a lack of active response or resistance.

General Adaptation Syndrome

A three-stage response model to stress that includes alarm, resistance, and exhaustion phases.

Transactional Model

A communication theory that emphasizes the dynamic nature of interpersonal communication, where all parties involved simultaneously play the roles of both sender and receiver.

Yerkes-Dodson Law

A theory suggesting that there is an optimal level of arousal for best performance on any task; too little or too much arousal can negatively impact performance.