Random Additional Info Flashcards
Reasons for Discharge
- Goals have been met
- A fx’l plataue has been reached
- Max benifit for skilled services has been achieved.
- Discharge to a higher level of care is required
- LOS has expired and an extension is not possible
Discharge planning begins when…
W/ the initial evaluation/ All interventions should be planned w/ consideration of the expected, planned discharge enviornment.
Directive group leadership
Occurs when the OT is responsible for the planning and structuring of what takes place in the group
- Style is needed when group members have limited skill (parallel or project level)
- Selects activities, provides clear verbal and demostrative instructions.
- Group maintenence roles and feedback is provided by the OT
- Leaders goal is task accomplishment.
Facilitative group leadership.
OT practitioner shares responsibility for the group and for group process w/ memebers.
- Ego-centeric or cooperative groups
- Collaborate w/ group members to select the activities to be used in a group.
- Members and leaders share instruction throughout the group process
- Group maintenance roles and feedback are provided by members w/ the leader facilitating the process.
Advisory group leadership
OT practitioner functions as a resource to the members who set the agenda and structure the groups functioning.
- Mature groups
- Members select and complete the groups activity w/ leadership advice, if needed.
- Group maintenance roles are independently assumed by group members.
- Feedback occurs as a natural part of the groups self-directed process.
Parallel Groups
- TO enable members to perform individual tasks in the presence of others.
- To minimally interact verbally and non-verbally w/ others even though task does not require interaction for successful completion.
- To develop a basic level of awareness, trust, and comfort w/ others in a group.
Project Group
- To develop the ability to perform a shared, short-term activity w/ another member in a comfortable, cooperative manner.
- To develop interactions beyonf those that the activity requires.
- TO enable members to give and seek assistance.
Egocentric-coopeative Group
- o enable members to select and implement a long-range activity which required group interaction to complete.
- To enable members to identify and meet the needs of themselves and others.
Cooperative Group
- To enable members to engage in a group activity which facilitates free expression of ideas and feelings.
- To develop sense of trust, love, and belonging and cohesion.
- To enble members to identify and meet soci-emotional needs.
Mature Group
- To enable members to assume all functional socio-emotional and task roles w/in a group.
- To enable members to reinforce behaviors which result in need satisfaction and task completion.
Parallel group leadership
- Provide unconditional positive regard to develop trust
- Activiely fill all leadership fucntions.
- Reinforce all appropriate behaviors
- Provide structure
- Faciliate interaction.
Prallel Group Activities
- Members perform activities independently of others but in the prescence of others.
- Interactions are not required to sucesfully complete the activity.
- Activities should be similar or utilize common tools or materials to facilitate interaction and sharing.
- Activities shouls be relevant to a persons ability, age, gender, and interest to increase interaction.
Project Group Leadership
- Select and structure activities that can be shared by two or more members.
- Fulfill all of the members needs while encouraging them to give and seek assisance and interact beyon the activities requirements.
- Reinforce cooperation, mild completion, sharing and interactions
Project Group activities
- Task is short-term and requires the particiaption of two or more people.
- Task is shareable and requires interaction to sucesfully complete.
- Group interaction, not project completion is emphasized.
Egocentric-cooperative Group Leadership
- Less of an active direct leader
- Facilitate and allow members to fulfill functional leaderhip roles to function independently.
- Provide guidelines and assistance as needed
- Reinforce members meeting nees of self and other
- SERVE AS A ROLE MODEL