Exam #1 Flashcards
What is occupational therapy?
- it is not just the things that we do in our lives
- occupation is everything
Humans are occupational beings
We are engaging in daily occupations that meet our needs for survival, growth, that contribute to health and well-being
Ex.) sleep, food, engaging with others
Epistemology
What knowledge do we have in the profession
Axiology
What is the right action
How do we translate knowledge into practice
Collaborative process - collaborated with clients - client centered care
Occupation based practice
Everything we do is centered around occupation
Cornerstones of OT practice
(BUCK)
- behaviors
- use of self
- core values
- knowledge
Language of OT
Client centered, evidence based practice, holistic approach, occupations, interventions
participation
involvement in a life situation
Life course perspective: unanticipated changes
- Global pandemic
- Car accident
- Disability
- Illness
- Can be very stressful and can lead to maladaptive occupations
Life course perspective: characteristics of an individual
- Important to consider that we are changing throughout the life span
- Race, gender, socioeconomic status
Infancy - primitive reflexes/motor
Birth - 1 year
- grasp, roll, sit, crawl
- “protective reflexes”
Ex.) rolling baby head first, at one point they should be able to develop a reflex to help keep their head up, arms forward
Holistic viewpoint
Considers a person’s background, beliefs, values, roles, routines, habits, and professions as well as everything that is happening in the environment where these activities are taking place
Core Values in OT’s Axiology
- The essential humanity and dignity of all people
- the perspectives and subjective experience of clients and their significant others
- empathy, caring, and genuine engagement in the therapeutic encounter
- the use of imagination and integrity in creating occupational opportunities
- the inherent potential of people to experience well-being
Transformation of occupations: Transformation
- change
- how an occupation might change you as you grow throughout your life
- can occur due to an illness or disability
Transformation of occupations: discontinuation
- discontinue dark occupations
- as we get older, there are certain things that we discontinue doing such as playing with toys
What is occupational therapy?
- takes on a holistic perspective
- evidence practice deeply rooted in science
Ordinary occupations can be our…
ADL's: preparing coffee in the morning or brushing our teeth IADL's: driving to class in the morning - can become significant/special if we lose the ability to do these things
Special occupations can be….
A special event that we engage in/celebrating in an achievement
Occupations occur in contexts
- all occupations happen in some sort of environment
- How, what where
- observe the environment that is either a barrier to the occupation or a facilitator that is not allowing that occupation to happen
- make suggestions on how to modify the environment or a different environment to make occupations more successful
Social context - (time) what time do you shower?
Physical context - What is the lightning, seating, noise like?
Natural environments - schools, homes
Occupations can be maladaptive
- don’t always equate to health
“Dark side” of occupation
Understanding Occupations
Use occupation as the primary goal for therapy
The thing that we want to achieve from the occupational therapy process
Ex.) client is able to engage in some sort of occupation that they are not currently doing and that they want to get back into doing because they have experienced some sort of illness or injury
“End” goal of therapy is…
Participation in some sort of valued occupation (what client wants to do)
-keep it occupation based
Ex.) being able to put clothes back by themselves after a stroke
Occupation as means…
Using occupation itself to help remediate some sort of impairment
Ex.) patient goal is to put their clothes on by themselves
- What skills are needed in order to put clothes on by themselves?
Philosophy of OT
Allows us to have a core understanding of OT around the world
- develop professional identity
- combination of our beliefs, values, perspectives and principles
Ontology
What is the more real to our profession
How we are true to our core beliefs
OT’s take on “top-down” approach
We look at client as a whole, look at the bigger picture
Ex.) what are you having difficulties with, who are you, what’s going on in the environment, what’s going on, how are you performing the occupation that can be contributing to the struggle to the role as a student, what is your value/beliefs, something physically going on?
International classification of functioning
Body functions, body structures, impairments, activity, participation, activity limitations, participation restrictions, environmental factors
Domain
[OCPPC]
Things what we can address in our own practice
Have the most knowledge and expertise about it
Name the Domains of occupation
(OCPPC) occupation client factors performance patterns performance patterns context
Process
Evaluation, intervention, outcomes
-actions that we take when we are providing services
“Red target area”
To achieve health, well being, and participation in life through engagement in occupations
Define engagement in occupation
Performance as the result of choice, motivation, and meaning
Define health
A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Define well-being
Encompassing the total universe of human life domains, including physical, mental, social aspects that make up what can be called a “good life”
Principles that guide OT practice
- client centered practice
- occupation centered practice
- keep occupation as the goal of therapy
- evidence based practice
- culturally relevant practice
- incorporating research, data, evidence based theory or model
Transformation of occupations: Acquisition
Acquire a new occupation
Ex.) help someone acquire in an occupation for someone who has retired
Life course perspective: anticipated changes
Some anticipated changes as we age
Life course perspective: societal changes
- Cultural expectations and community changes
2. Joining a new community
Life course perspective principles
- Aging and transformations of occupations are lifelong processes
- People are interconnected and these relationships shape occupations
- History and societal events shape and alter what people do, how they do it and give it meaning
- People make choices about their occupations which reflect their circumstances and perceive occupational opportunities at that particular time
- Antecedents to an event or life transition and the consequences of such events for a person’s occupations vary according to the timing in the life course
Infancy - social skills
Communicated through laughing, crying, cooing, and babbling, and respond to simple commands
Infancy - cognitive skills
Develop awareness of different objects
Objective permanence - being able to recognize that there is still going to be an object even though you have covered it up and uncovered it again
Settings
NICU - early intervention, diagnostic clinics, outpatient, home health, community-based programs
Developmental tasks of infancy
Exploration phase, sleep/wake cycle, gross motor, oral motor, language, fine motion, social, cognitive
Childhood
- around age 5 children start to engage in school, school becomes their primary occupation
- solo play in early childhood, once they start pre-school they play alongside other kids (parallel play)
what age gap is 1-6 years?
Early childhood
What age gap is 6 - 12 years old?
Later childhood
Childhood settings
- school based OT
- outpatient
- early childhood centers (birth - 3 years)
- general developmental delay
Body functions
The physiological or cognitive functions
Body structures
Anatomy
What does ICF stand for?
INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING
Impairments
○ A problem in body function or structure
○ Significant loss- decrease strength, memory loss, loss of limb,
Activity
Execution of task or action by the individual
Participation
○ Involvement in a life situation
○ How we participate in life
Activity limitations
Difficulty in executing an activity
Participation Restrictions
A problem that individual has in engaging in life situation
Environmental factors
The physical, social, environment in which people conduct their lives
what are the two main areas of OTPF
domain and process