Group Protocol

Question 1

What is apart of the complex process of developing a group protocol?

Answer 1

• professional reasoning
• selecting group members (commonality)
• safety concerns
• understanding specific population’s characteristics, strengths, challenges & priorites
• identify need for change
• OTPF → client-centered collab
• Use of tehory

Question 2

What are professional reasoning & art of group design?

Answer 2

• creativity & scientific reasoning
• motivation
• investiagtion
• definition
• ideation
• idea selection
• implementation
• evalution
• convergent phases – narrow scope of group
• divergent phases – broaden scope of group

Question 3

What are the components of a psychosocial group protocol in OT?

Answer 3

• population, setting, level of care
• theoretical model or frame of reference
• idenitfying focus for intervention
• writing group intervention outline
• planning sessions

Question 4

How should a needs assessment for a community organization be done?

Answer 4

• Background data
• participant input through survey, interview, key informants, focus groups
• secondary data
• data analysis
• participate profile

Question 5

What does the first component consist of?

Population, setting, level of care

Answer 5

OT identifies candidtaes for group among population of a setting at which they are employed

Question 6

What does the second component consist of?

Theoretical model or Frame of reference

Answer 6

• view of function & dysfunction
• client physical & cognitive level of function
• change strategies
• view of motivation
• intervetnion time frame
• intervention options

Question 7

What does the third component consist of?

Identifying a focus for intervention

Answer 7

OTPF-4: Domains: Client Factors, Occupations, Context, Performance Skills, Performance Patterns

OTPF-4 Approaches: Create, promote (health promotion); Establish, restore (remediation, restoration); Maintain; Modify (compensation, adaptation); Prevent

Question 8

What does the fourth component consist of?

The group intervention outline

Answer 8

• group title
• author
• theoretical model & FOR
• purpose
• group membership & size
• group goals & rationale
• outcome crieteria
• methods
• time & place of meeting
• supplies & cost
• references

Question 9

What does the fifth component consist of?

Planning each session

Answer 9

• Group Title
• Session Title
• Format (time sequence)
• Supplies
• Description