Occupational Adaptation

Question 1

Why was Occupational Adaptation developed?

Answer 1

Developed out of the need to establish a foundational theory for a new research program at Texas’s woman’s university

Question 2

What does OA focus on?

Answer 2

Enhancement of process, not specific skills.

Reflects an approach for health promotion, prevention, and remediation.

Question 3

What is characterized as a normative, lifelong process that is a response to the internal and external pressures for mastery?

Answer 3

Adaptation

Question 4

What is the process of INTERNAL adaptation?

Answer 4

Occurs through occupational and adaptation

They are interwoven into a “integrated phenomenon that describes an innate human process”

Question 5

What creates occupational challenges?

Answer 5

Internal and external pressures

Question 6

What are the 4 main constructs to OA?

Answer 6

Occupations
Adaptive Capacity
Relative Mastery
Occupational Adaptation Process

Question 7

What 3 properties do activities consist of?

Answer 7

actively involve the person
meaningful to person
include process or product that may be tangible or intangible

Question 8

What is relative mastery?

Answer 8

A persons self assessment of his/her occupational Response

Question 9

3 points in relative mastery

Answer 9

SATISFACTION
EFFICIENCY
EFFECTIVENESS
“SEE”

Question 10

What are the components of OA process?

Answer 10

Person
Occupational environment
interaction that takes place btwn person and environment.

This process depicts how a person can respond adaptively and masterfully when engaged in occupations

Question 11

True or False?

Struggles with OA do not necessarily mean a disability but may require a shift in life roles or functioning

Answer 11

TRUE

Question 12

What is adaptive capacity?

Answer 12

A persons ability to recognize the need for change, modification, or refinement in order to achieve relative mastery

Has cumulative effect over time as experience becomes reinforcing

Occurs when a persons typical response does not meet the challenges of an occupation and now has to adjust behaviors to achieve competent outcome

Question 13

What is the primary goal of OA?

Answer 13

to achieve mastery over the environment

Question 14

Desire for mastery

Answer 14

Naturally occurs

Intrinsic

Question 15

Demand for mastery

Answer 15

External factors that affect OA process

Question 16

Press for mastery

Answer 16

interplay between internal and external factors

yields occupational challenge

Question 17

What is internal adaptive response?

Answer 17

Response to occupational challenges to produce an occupational response

Question 18

What is occupational response?

Answer 18

Observable outcome of adaptive process

Question 19

What is the focus for intervention?

Answer 19

Internal adaptation process

NOT really of functional skills but they ARE addressed

Question 20

What are the 6 main assumptions of OA

Answer 20

Competence in occupation
Demands to perform
Adaptive capacity
Demand for changes
Success in occupational performance
Dysfunction

Question 21

Competence in occupation

Answer 21

Persons: learn best thru activities that are meaningful
Knowledge: acquired thru adaptive attempts to explore and master environment

Question 22

What is competence?

Answer 22

Competence in occupational performance is a life-long process of adaptation to internal and external performance demands.
These demands occur naturally within occupational roles and within content of PEO interactions

Question 23

Demands to perform

Answer 23

A persons desire for mastery coupled with the environment’s demand for competency which produces occupational “press”

Question 24

What is occupational press?

Answer 24

Set of demands or expectations for behavior that is either objectively or subjectively perceived by an individual

Question 25

Adaptive Capacity

Answer 25

Emerges from interaction btwn person and environment

Adaptation can be disrupted by impairment, disability, or handicapping conditions and stressful events

Question 26

True or False?

Improvement in occupational performance is dependent on improvement in adaptation process

Answer 26

TRUE

Question 27

True or False?

Adaptation energy is unlimited and infinite

Answer 27

FALSE

It is limited and finite

Question 28

What can deplete ones energy source for adaptation?

Answer 28

STRESS (duh)

Question 29

Demand for changes

Answer 29

People are influenced by genetics, environment to create “personal nature”
Occupational challenges occur when person performs roles

Question 30

What molds role expectations?

Answer 30

Occupational challenges

This is b/c occupational challenges occur when a person performs roles

Question 31

Success in Occupational Performance

What systems influence a person?

Answer 31

Sensorimotor, cognitive, and psychosocial systems

Determined by genetics, environment, and experiential learning to allow a person to get feedback from environment about one’s performance

Question 32

How are these 3 systems reinforced?

Answer 32

by occupational response

Question 33

Function-Dysfunction

Answer 33

A healthy individual shows adaptive capacity and relative mastery
Dysfunction occurs because the persons ability to adapt has been challenged to the point that the demands for performance are not met.
Dysfunction is evident in the adaptive response.

Question 34

What is motivation impacted by?

Answer 34

Desire for mastery
Demand for mastery
Press for mastery