Maude Laliberté and Anne Hudon | Do Conflicts of Interest

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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:

Repression

In psychoanalytic theory, the unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious mind.

Defense Mechanism

psychological strategies brought into play by the unconscious mind to manipulate, deny, or distort reality in order to defend against feelings of anxiety and unacceptable impulses.

Repression

A defense mechanism where distressing thoughts and feelings are unconsciously blocked from conscious awareness.

Pervasive

Having the tendency to spread widely throughout an area or group of people.