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    Sensory stimulation therapy utilizes the five senses to test a client's awareness of specific objects and reinforce their connection to reality. It is a form of psychotherapy performed by a trained therapist. The five senses - sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste - are stimulated through examples like colors, odors, sounds, textures, and flavors. The goals are to maintain the client's awareness, test their sensory acuity, promote relaxation, and encourage positive behavior and emotions.

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    Sensory stimulation therapy utilizes the five senses to test a client's awareness of specific objects and reinforce their connection to reality. It is a form of psychotherapy performed by a trained therapist. The five senses - sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste - are stimulated through examples like colors, odors, sounds, textures, and flavors. The goals are to maintain the client's awareness, test their sensory acuity, promote relaxation, and encourage positive behavior and emotions.

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    Sensory stimulation therapy utilizes the five senses to test a client's awareness of specific objects and reinforce their connection to reality. It is a form of psychotherapy performed by a trained therapist. The five senses - sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste - are stimulated through examples like colors, odors, sounds, textures, and flavors. The goals are to maintain the client's awareness, test their sensory acuity, promote relaxation, and encourage positive behavior and emotions.

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    Sensory Stimulation Therapy

    definition of terms:
    Sensory Stimulation a form of psychotherapy to test the persons sense of awareness on
    specific objects utilizing the five (5) senses.
    Therapist a person trained in the use of psychological methods for helping patients
    overcome psychological problems.
    Client - a person who is receiving the benefits, services, etc., of a social welfare agency, a
    government, bureau.
    Hallucination a false sensory perceptions or perceptual experience that do not really exist.
    Hallucinations can involve the five senses and bodily sensations.
    Most common:
    Auditory hallucinations: hearing voices






    Visual hallucinations: see things that that dont really exist








    Illusions a distortion of the senses, revealing how the brain is normally organizes and
    interprets sensory stimulation.
    Delusion a fixed false belief not based in reality




    Special body senses:
    The senses connect humans to the real world, allowing them to interpret what is
    happening around them and respond accordingly. The color of the sky at dusk, the
    sound of laughter at a party, the scent of eucalyptus and pine, the taste of freshly
    baked breadall would be meaningless without the senses. They not only provide
    pleasure, but warn of danger.




    a) Sense of sight - vision is the capability of the eye(s) to focus and detect images of visible
    light on photoreceptors in the retina of each eye that generates electrical nerve impulses for
    varying color and brightness.
    example: 2 opposing colors(black and white)




    b) Sense of smell - Smell, called olfaction, is the ability of an organism to sense and identify a
    substance by detecting tiny amounts of the substance that evaporate and produce an odor.
    Smell is the most important sense for most organisms.
    example: pleasant and unpleasant odor





    c.) Sense of hearing - The human ear is the organ responsible for hearing and for equilibrium
    or balance.
    Example: soft sound and loud sound



    d.) Sense of touch - a perception resulting from activation of neural receptors, generally in the
    skin including hair follicles, but also in the tongue, throat, and mucosa.
    Example: soft and hard, smooth and rough



    e.) Sense of taste - is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the capability to detect the
    taste of substances such as food, certain minerals, and poisons, etc. The sense of taste is often
    confused with the "sense" of flavor, which is a combination of taste and smell perception.
    Example: sweet, sour, bitter, salty taste



    Purposes of sensory stimulation
    - reinforce reality
    - maintain contact with reality
    - establish awareness on the patient
    - test the acuity of the patient different senses
    - to promote relaxation
    - to encourage positive behavior and emotion

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