mental health quiz 1 Flashcards
People with mental health disorders have trouble controlling their
feelings, thoughts, and behavior
Occupation has been defined as goal directed use of
time, interest, energy, and attention
Occupation must have
meaning and purpose to the person performing it
OT views engagement in occupation as essential to both
physical and mental health
OT practitioners work with consumers:
Patients, clients, families, caregivers, and residents
OT practitioners work on
Medication education
Ot practitioners help troubled individuals families and communities
Learn new skills maintain successful habits and routines adapt if necessary explore their feelings and interest control their lives and destinies
Mental health is view in terms of reasonably functioning with
daily life activities (work)
relationships(loving)
exploration and growth (creating)
mental health is defined in relation to
changing life conditions and responding constructively and creatively to the changing demands and opportunities of real life
defining mental health
“a state of being relative rather than absolute”, this definition views mental health in terms of successful functioning within a framework of daily life activities , working, loving-relationship, and exploration and growth
Medical disorders _____ bring on mental disorders
can
relating occupation to mental health :
Remember OT defines occupation as anything one does to occupy themselves. The syndrome or disorder may be a result of some behavioral and or psychological condition or related to secondary physical condition, or illness. Requires attention and energy.
Occupational therapy in mental health:
Very simply, since OT uses purposeful activity as it’s primary treatment tool patients with mental health conditions prove to themselves that they can act and perform in activities that have meaning to them. “Every person is born with a drive to act on the environment , to change things, to work, and to use the hands and the mind
1920’s
OT essentially came into it’s own as a result of treating WW1 veterans
1930’s
beliefs changed and treatment of mental disorders was biological in nature: ECT, prefrontal lobotomies and insulin shock treatment were common
1940’s
represents a significant period of distress for the OT profession, it was regarded as lacking scientific foundation and almost resulted in the extinction of OT
Adapted vocab and concepts of psychoanalysis, continue to work under dr. but ot’s began to use activities to evaluate pt’s
1950’s
psychoanalytical treatment became the prevailing intervention. OT’s began to explore unconscious needs and drives of the individual. Also critical during this period, was the discovery and introduction of major tranquilizers to pt care. On the positive side of the new pharmacological intervention, pt behaviors that were so extreme could now be treated.
1960’s-1970’s
continued advancement in medications which was additionally highlighted by the process of deinstitutionalization and implementation of community mental health agencies. Based on the works of skinner and Pavlov, behavioral therapy became a new focus of OT intervention. Focused more on production not feelings.
1970- jean ayers and lorna king- sensory integration for the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
King and Allen- activity and occupation as focus for intervention
1980’s
Claudia Allen- 6 levels of cognitive functioning., compensatory method
cognitive behavior was implemented
development of sensory processing
Gary Kielhofner- MOHO ( with the help of Mary Reilly)
MOHO
model of human occupation- model proposes that humans respond and adapt to the environment based upon interactions among three sub systems , volition habituation, and performance.
Current
Since OT utilizes a holistic approach to the tx of our pts no matter what the clinical setting may be, the OT practitioner MUST be competent and knowledgeable in all types of therapeutic intervention the profession has to offer our pts
2002
Intro of practice framework, COTA positions likely to expand in mental health
OTR and COTA roles
- to clarify the role of the ota, has in the past conducted projects on role delineation
- important to understand the entry level ota is trained to collaborate with the supervising ot to provide OT services
OTR and COTA roles
The OTR and OTA are prepared to preform complimentary job functions