Nursing Manthra’s Review Material for Specialized Psychologist – Rehabilitation Psychology

Salient Features of This Rehabilitation Psychologist Oral Exam Review Material

• Includes 300 viva-oriented questions with model answers for Rehabilitation Psychologist licensing/oral examinations.
• Developed to improve confidence, clinical reasoning, professional communication, and structured viva answering.
• Covers both basic concepts and advanced scenario-based questions.
• Includes clinical case scenarios, differential diagnosis, problem-solving, and decision-making questions.
• Covers major areas of Rehabilitation Psychology, including:
  • Biopsychosocial model and ICF
  • Disability models, disability identity, ableism, advocacy, accessibility and participation
  • Psychological assessment and case formulation
  • Psychometric testing, reliability, validity and outcome measures
  • Cognitive screening and neuropsychological considerations
  • Cognitive rehabilitation, memory rehabilitation and executive-function strategies
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Stroke and aphasia
  • Spinal Cord Injury
  • Amputation and phantom limb pain
  • Chronic pain and pain psychology
  • Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy
  • Cerebral palsy and intellectual disability
  • Cancer, cardiac, pulmonary and renal rehabilitation
  • Organ transplantation
  • Burn rehabilitation
  • Functional neurological disorders
  • Chronic and progressive illness
  • Palliative rehabilitation
• Covers common psychological problems such as:
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • PTSD
  • Adjustment disorders
  • Grief
  • Anger and aggression
  • Apathy
  • Psychosis
  • Mania
  • Substance misuse
  • Health anxiety
  • Suicide and self-harm risk
• Includes important rehabilitation therapies and approaches:
  • CBT
  • ACT
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Behavioral Activation
  • Problem-Solving Therapy
  • Relaxation and mindfulness
  • Positive behavioral approaches
  • Errorless learning
  • Spaced retrieval
  • Metacognitive strategies
  • Goal Management Training
• Covers family and caregiver issues, caregiver burden, family communication and adjustment.
• Includes sexuality, intimacy, body image, relationships and disability-related identity.
• Covers pediatric, adolescent and geriatric rehabilitation psychology.
• Includes vocational rehabilitation, return to work, return to education and community reintegration.
• Covers assistive technology, environmental barriers and Person–Task–Environment interaction.
• Includes important assessment tools and screening measures such as PHQ-9, HADS, MoCA, MMSE, WHODAS 2.0, PCL-5 and Goal Attainment Scaling.
• Covers ethical responsibilities and professional conduct, including:
  • Autonomy
  • Beneficence
  • Non-maleficence
  • Justice
  • Informed consent
  • Informed refusal
  • Capacity
  • Confidentiality
  • Professional boundaries
  • Conflict of interest
  • Scope of practice
  • Professional accountability
  • Documentation
  • Clinical errors
  • Complaints and incident reporting
• Includes medico-legal and patient-rights related viva questions.
• Covers UAE/DHA mental-health principles, patient rights, privacy, dignity and least restrictive care.
• Includes International Patient Safety Goals (IPSG):
  • Correct patient identification
  • Effective communication
  • High-alert medication awareness
  • Safe procedures
  • Prevention of healthcare-associated infection
  • Fall prevention
• Includes infection prevention and control, including:
  • Standard precautions
  • Hand hygiene
  • PPE
  • Transmission-based precautions
  • Occupational exposure
  • Healthcare-associated infection
  • Equipment cleaning and infection safety
• Covers KPI, quality improvement and patient-safety concepts, including:
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Structure, process and outcome indicators
  • Clinical audit
  • Near miss
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Service performance and outcome monitoring
• Includes rehabilitation-specific KPIs and outcome measures.
• Covers research ethics, quality improvement, vulnerable participants and ethical research involving cognitive impairment.
• Includes telepsychology and online consultation scenarios, including privacy, consent and emergency situations.
• Covers multidisciplinary teamwork, clinical handover, SBAR communication, referrals and interprofessional consultation.
• Includes questions on professional self-awareness, supervision, countertransference, burnout and fitness to practice.
• Designed to help candidates answer questions in a structured way using safety, assessment, differential diagnosis, formulation, intervention, MDT involvement, ethics, functional outcome and follow-up.
• Suitable for candidates preparing for DHA and other healthcare authority oral/viva examinations where Rehabilitation Psychology knowledge, professional judgment and patient-safety awareness may be assessed.

This material is designed not only for memorizing answers, but for developing the clinical thinking and confidence required to respond effectively to different viva scenarios chosen by different examiners.

 Format

Oral Viva

Total questions with naswers -300

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