Final Flashcards
Occupation
Refers to those things people do that are valuable and meaningful to them and provide them with a sense of health, competence, and identity.
Task
Refer to the basic units of action (e.g., understanding content in reading, writing
responses to questions for an assignment)
Occupational Justice
Refers to the opportunity for everyone to participate in desired occupations.
-Occupational injustice refers to social structures (such as laws, institutions, societal attitudes, cultural beliefs and practices, economic systems, policies, and governmental politics) (Crawford et al., 2016) that present barriers so people are not able to access desired.
Domain
Profession’s purview and areas in which its members have an established body of knowledge and expertise
Purpose
Series of steps occupational therapy practitioners use to operationalize their expertise in providing services to clients. The occupational therapy process includes evaluation, intervention, and outcomes; occurs within the purview of the occupational therapy domain; and involves collaboration among the occupational therapist, occupational therapy assistant, and client.
History of OT
Occupation (1917) -> Medical Model -> Return of Occupation Based Intervention
5 Founders of OT
- William Rush Dunton Jr.
-Father of OT
-Psychiatrist
-Moral treatment approach in clients with mental illness - Elenor Clarke Slage
-Mother of OT
-Habit training as a way to structure engagement in occupations - George Edward Barton
-Architect
-Created consolation house - Susan Cox Johnson
-Former arts and crafts teacher
-Graded physical exercise - Thomas Bessell Kidner
-Vocational secretary and architect
-Prevocational rehabilitation
Adolph Meyer
-Professor of psychiatry
-Lack of balance of work and play
-Occupations should be pleasurable, creative, and educational
WW1
-Reconstructive aides
-Women left being constructive aides after the war
Solider’s Rehabilitation Act
Established a program of vocational rehabilitation for soldiers disabled on active duty
Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation Act
-This act provided federal funds to states on a 50-50 matching basis to provide vocational rehabilitation services to civilians with physical disabilities.
-To be eligible for benefits, applicants for the program had to be unable, because of their disability, to engage “successfully” in “gainful
employment.
Rehabilitation Movement
-The Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals increased in size and number after demands from veterans, families, and the public to handle the casualties of war and continued care of veterans.
-The VA hospitals, which had employed occupational therapists in psychiatric and tuberculosis units since the administration’s beginnings in 1921, developed physical me
COTA Leaders
-Sally Ryan, Terri Black, Twerry Olivas-De La O, Robin Jones, Roster of Honor
Client-Centered Practice
Approach to service that incorporates respect for and partnership with clients as active participants in the therapy process. This approach emphasizes clients’ knowledge and experience, strengths, capacity for choice, and overall autonomy.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
To receive federal funds, states must develop and implement policies that assure a free appropriate public education for all children with disabilities