OCCUPATIONS Flashcards
Activities oriented towards taking care of one’s own body and completed on a routine basis
ADL or Activities of Daily Living
It is the most basic task that children learn as they grow and mature
ADL or Activities of Daily Living
What are the categories under ADLs?
Feeding and Eating
Dressing & Undressing
Bathing and Showering
Toileting and Toilet hygiene Personal hygiene and Grooming
-typically develops after the development of eating and dressing skills
-cultural expectations and social routines
-skills learned in early childhood
Personal Hygiene and Grooming
Involves clothing management, maintaining toileting position, transferring to and from toileting, and cleaning the body
Toilet Hygiene
Children may be responsible for placing devices in a safe container when not in use, cleaning devices, handling devices with care and asking for assistance as needed.
Personal Device Care
OT practitioner may help in a variety of ways
* May address physical barriers in the home and community that prevent children from accessing the environment
* Home modifications (to improve postural control and endurance for mobility)
Functional Mobility
As children mature, they may have many questions regarding sexual activity. They usually become curious about relationships in their middle childhood stage.
Sexual Activity
Complex activities of daily living that are necessary to function independently in the home, school, or community
IADLs or Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
Children learn home management tasks that help them participate in family routines and community mobility skills that help them to be active outside the home
IADLs or Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
It is necessary for successful participation in home management, community mobility, and care of others’ activities
Readiness Skills
It is a process used by OT practitioners that “addresses the typical demands of an activity, the range of skills involved in its performance, and the various cultural meanings that might ascribed to it”
Activity Analysis
Are tasks necessary to obtain and maintain one’s personal and household possessions
-Some children and adolescents have the incentive of a monetary allowance to complete the assigned chores, whereas others do not have a monetary incentive but are still expected to assist in the maintenance of their households.
Home Establishment and Management
-accompanying parents (preschool)
-walking or commuting to run errands (adolescence)
Community Mobility
What impacts the community mobility?
*impact of family & cultural expectations
*impact of environmental factors
-care of pets and animals
-child rearing
Care of others
What are the key in determining what is expected of the child in terms of caring for others?
Context and Environmental factors
Activities related to obtaining restorative rest and sleep to support healthy, active engagement in other occupations
Rest and Sleep
Activities needed for learning and participating
Education
Are the opportunities that facilitate learning for children and adolescents.
Educational Activities
What are two educational activities?
Formal and Informal educational activities
Structured and may be mandated by public law for specific age groups.
Formal educational activities
Examples of Formal educational activities
Preschool program
Day care centers
Public school
Sunday class program
Less structured and occur in a variety of settings
Informal educational activities
Example of Informal educational activities
Playing school with an older sibling
Playing shopping game with peers
Performance abilities that are necessary to effectively engage in educational and vocational activities.
Readiness Skills
It is a stage of “what comes first”
and must be considered within the temporal and environmental contexts
Readiness Skills
Labor or exertion related to the development, production, delivery, or management of objects or services; benefits may be financial or nonfinancial
- Have monetary incentive or salary
-Can be formal or informal
Work/Vocational Activities
This area of occupation may require adequate social skills to approach people, money management skills, etc.
Work/Vocational Activities
Occupation of childhood
Play
What do children learn through play?
Cognitive, Socioemotional, Motor, and Language Skills
This area of occupation are intrinsically motivated, internally controlled, and freely chosen and that may include suspension of reality
Play
This area of occupation refers to non-obligatory activity that is intrinsically motivated and engaged in during discretionary time
Leisure
It is the play in adulthood which are not associated with time-consuming duties and responsibilities
Leisure
What are the 4 definitions of Play?
- A method to release surplus energy
- A link in the evolutionary change from animal to human being
- A method to practice survival skills
- An attitude or mood
What is “playfulness”?
It is a child’s attitude about and approach to activities
Activities that involve social interaction with others, including family, friends, peers, and community members, and that support social interdependence
Social Participation
It includes organized patterns of behavior expected of a child interacting with others within a given social system
Social Participation
What should the OT practitioners need to understand to children who has disabilities or special need?
The child’s family system
What are the Developmental relevance of Play and Leisure?
- It provides children with opportunities to develop motor, social–emotional, cognitive, and language skills.
- May identify their own strengths and weaknesses; therefore, play contributes to the quality of life.
- People engage in play and leisure activities because they enjoy them and are intrinsically motivated to participate in them
It is a process used by OT practitioners that “addresses typical demands of an activity, the range of skills involved in its performance, and the various cultural meanings that might ascribed to it”
Activity Analysis
