Occupational Adaptation Model

Question 1

What is occupational adaptation?

Answer 1

A comprehensive systems model that is based on core concepts and constructs reflective of OT practice.

Question 2

Occupational adaptation can be described as consisting of two components. What are they?

Answer 2

1. Framework that describes a normal human phenomenon called adaptation.
2. Framework that allows occupational therapists to plan, guide, and implement interventions.

Question 3

What is adaptive capacity?

Answer 3

A person’s ability to recognize the need for change, modification, or refinement (adaptation) in order to achieve relative mastery.

Question 4

According to this model, every person is made up of three parts. What are they?

Answer 4

1. Sensorimotor
2. Cognitive
3. Psychosocial.

Question 5

What is occupational challenge?

Answer 5

Whenever a person participates in an occupation, he is naturally challenged to meet various expectations of performance.

Question 6

What is occupational role functioning influenced by?

Answer 6

1. Every person has an internal perception of why one should act a certain way, which contributes to personal satisfaction.
2. Every environment also has a set of social and cultural norms that define how one should act in order to fit in.

Question 7

According to this model, when facing an occupational challenge, the person calls upon 3 subprocesses. What are they?

Answer 7

1. The adaptive response generation subprocess
2. The adaptive response evaluation subprocess
3. The adaptive response integration subprocess

Question 8

What is this model’s distinctive contribution to OT practice?

Answer 8

It explains how one’s adaptive capacity can impact occupational performance successfully or unsuccessfully, drawing a practitioner’s attention to faulty processes within this cycle as opposed to faulty people.

Question 9

What does this process require?

Answer 9

A high-cognitive understanding by the practitioner.