CMCE Flashcards
10 of the CMCE’s enablement skills
Adapt Advocate Collaborate Consult Coordinate Design/build Educate Engage Specialise
Define occupational therapy enablement
OTs providing effective, client-centred, occupation-based enablement that promotes health, well-being and justice
Key features of the CMCE
Enabling people to choose, organise and perform occupations they find useful and meaningful to their environment
Concepts of giving power, strengthening, providing with the ability or means to do something and with the means to do or be something and making something possible
Encompasses a range of strategies, actions and intervention
Adapt
Altering an occupation or the environment to make a “just right challenge” suitable to the clients needs
Eg of adapt
Selecting a different environment
Home/car modification
Advocate
Championing a cause to those who have the power to make change
To argue and speak in favour of change on behalf of someone
Eg advocate
Policy change
Program proposals
Coach
Ongoing partnership that encourages clients to participate / reflect and discover their own motivation in their desired occupations
Eg coach
Encourage
Mentor
Collaborate
Power sharing, working with people towards a common goal
Eg collaborate
Negotiating with the client to decide upon meaningful OT goals
Consult
Exchanging views, brainstorm and confer with clients/stakeholders - families, team-members, government and non-government groups.
Eg consult
Case review
MDT meeting
Coordinate
Involves harmonising, synthesising and combining information, people and services
Integrating skills
Eg coordinate
Linking people with different resources: housing, education, health, home help, home modifications
Design/build
Formulating a plan, to devise or to form a strategy
Conceive, construct, create
Eg design/build
Creating a splint
Accessible buildings
Educate
Learning through doing
Eg educate
Student fieldwork
Teaching a client to dress one-handed
Engage
Involving the client through learning through doing or participating
Engaging the client, their perspectives, choices and decisions
Eg engage
Engaging the disinterested, uninvolved or disconnected
Specialise
The use of specific techniques in particular situations
The composite of skills that contributes to the OT’s role as an expert in enabling occupation.
Eg specialise
Ergonomics
Neurodevelopment
Effective enablement
Seamless services to meet client’s goals
