OTPF & AA Flashcards

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What does the OTPF stand for?

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Occupational Therapy Practice Framework

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The OTPF has evolved over the years, and now has **7 versions*. The latest is:

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Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process, 4th Edition (2020)

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What is Task Analysis?

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The process in which an OT takes an occupation or activity and breaks it down to understand the physical, cognitive, social, and other processes the activity generally requires

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Activity Analysis is a way of thinking or analyzing an activity while working with clients.

What is the goal of AA?

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To understand an activity, aiming to address:

  • Typical demands of the activity
  • Performance skills and body functions needed to perform it
  • Cultural meanings ascribed to it
  • Relation to life participation
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Analyzing an activity enables the therapist to:

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  • Discover the skills required for its successful performance
  • Identify the sequence of sub-skills leading to the acquisition of mature skills and decide how they can best be presented
  • Contribute and enhance the professional reasoning of the therapist
  • Break down activity into small steps
  • Determine whether or not the person can perform an activity
  • Determine the appropriateness of the activity for a particular client in terms of developmental needs, age, personal interests, gender, and cultural relevance
  • Identify activity potential and activity risks, hazards, and precautions
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The careful use of _____ for therapeutic purposes change is what makes occupational therapy unique

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Occupations

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Intervention strategies typically involve _____ in ways that either facilitate development or improvement in desired performance or allow for participation in spite of limitations

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changing occupations

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Inherent in these occupational approaches is attention to developing and maintaining the client’s _______

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Motivation to change

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What is Activity Grading?

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  • It is adapting an activity in order to allow change in the client.
  • It may involve a gradual change in the nature of the activity as either
  1. *(A whole** (complete change of activity)
  2. By changing few components
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How does Activity Grading help a client progress?

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Grading allows the client to progress from:

Exploration —> Acquisition of skills —> Attainment of goals

It also allows him to move on to the next stage once a skill has been learned.

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The grading of an occupation involves:

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  • Sequentially increasing its demands to stimulate the person’s function; or,
  • Reducing the occupational demands to respond to client difficulties in performance

Often, practitioner grade occupations to improve the client’s underlying capacities and skills and grading will vary

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It is a term used when the practitioner helps the client by doing parts of the task that are too hard, but then has the client do the rest, so that a task may be completed.

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Activity Scaffolding

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As clients develop or improve their skills, practitioners systematically withdraw supports, so that the task demands increase until the person is doing the whole task or occupation independently

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Activity Fading

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This involves providing verbal expectations and support designed to help the individual engage in and sustain growth or changes

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Activity Coaching

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What is the goal of Activity Adaptation or Modification?

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  • To allow the client’s involvement in a valued occupation
  • Rather than striving to improve or change the functional capacity of the individual, adaptation focuses on **changing the demands of the occupation **so they are congruent with the person’s ability level
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Adaptations may involve modification of the occupation itself by:

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  • Reducing its demands
  • Use of assistive devices
  • Changes in physical/social environment