Valuing OT as a Profession Flashcards
Incorporated as member of the rehabilitation team and is crucial to the success of the care plan
client
Rehabilitation Team:
- Physical Therapist
- Occupational Therapist
- Speech and Language Therapist
- Family and Client
Team Interaction Model
- multidisciplinary
- transdisciplinary
- interdisciplinary
- provide OT services
- service provision may include direct, monitored, and consultative approaches
practitioner
Develops and provides educational offerings or training related to occupational therapy to consumer, peer, and community individuals or groups
Educator
Provides OT students with opportunities to practice and carry out practitioner competencies
Fieldwork educator
Manages the overall daily operation of occupational therapy services in a defined practice area
Supervisor
Manages department, program, services, or agency providing occupational therapy services
Administrator
Provides occupational therapy consultation to individuals, groups, or organizations
Consultant
- Provides formal academic education for occupational therapy students
- Balance expected between teaching, service, and scholarly activities
Faculty
Performs scholarly work of the profession including examining, developing, refining, and evaluating the profession’s body of knowledge, theoretical base, and philosophical foundations
Researcher
Manages the occupational therapy educational program
Program Director
Manages student fieldwork program within the academic setting
Fieldwork coordinator
Partially or fully-employed individuals who provide occupational therapy services
Entrepreneur
Levels of role performance
- entry-level
- intermediate
- advance level