Occupational Profile

Question 1

Occupational profile

• Part of evaluation process
• Occupational history, experiences
• Patterns of daily living
• Interests, values, needs
• What is meaningful to client?
• Client-centered

Part of initial interview, but then integrated throughout interactions with client
•Identify strengths and limits regarding occupations
•Identify client’s needs and priorities
•Leads to analysis of occupational performance
•Can be refined related to outcomes

Who is client?  Why is client seeking services?  
•What occupations are successful?
•What are the barriers to occupations?
•What contexts are supporting / inhibiting occupational performance?
•What is client’s occupational history?
•Experiences
•Values
•Interests
•Roles
•What are client’s priorities and goals?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Analysis of occupational performance

Answer 2

Consider what you learned in profile
•What do you need to observe?  
•Use of specific tests / assessments
•Consider contexts / environments
•Interpret data collected through profile, assessment tools, observation
•Synthesize and interpret all data (reasoning)
•Used to set goals
•Used to plan interventions

Question 3

Activity analysis VS occupational analysis

Answer 3

Activity
•Specific to the activity and how it usually performed in our culture
•“general idea” of how thigs are usually done

Occupation
•Personally experienced performance
•“Specific” to the client
•Understand meaning from client’s perspective

Question 4

Analyzing Occupations and Activities

Answer 4

• Systematic review of daily activities, routines
• Promotes understanding of strengths and problems
• Occupational orchestration
• Differences in Activity and Occupation Analysis
• See Box 21.1, page 236

Question 5

Other considerations for Analysis

Answer 5

• Context and environment
• Arena or setting
• Importance of roles
  * Personal view
  * Societal view
• Co-occupations
  * Implicitly involves 2 or more individuals

Question 6

Lifespan Considerations

Childhood

Answer 6

.Developmental expectations
•Skills, abilities, patterns emerge over time
•Collaboration with parents, caregivers
•Purpose of play
•ADL skill development

Question 7

Lifespan Considerations

Adolescent

Answer 7

.Physical and emotional development
•Increasing sense of self-identity
•New roles, seek independence
•New focus on IADL skill development and participation in new skill sets

Question 8

Lifespan Considerations

Adult

Answer 8

.Personal freedom, choice, responsibility
•Choices of lifestyle and roles
•Increasing complexity
•Vary according to age, maturity
•Physical and emotional changes continue

Question 9

Lifespan Considerations

Older adults

Answer 9

.Leave workforce
•Loss of roles
•Isolation, depression possible
•Longer life span
•Aging “successfully”

Question 10

Effects of disability

Answer 10

Not just medical conditions
•Effect on occupational performance, roles
•Effect on social participation
•Differences in perspective of provider and “patient

Question 11

Role of OT

Answer 11

Understand person, not disease
•Promote occupational performance, role fulfillment
•With or without adaptations
•Maintaining meaning and purpose
•Client-centered