Week 1

Question 1

List the 10 core concepts underpinning occupational therapy practice

Answer 1

1- Occupation and activity
2- Meaningful occupation
3- Occupation and the impact on health
4- Occupational  performance
5- Occupation and activity analysis
6- Occupation based goals
7- Occupation as a therapeutic medium
8- Client and person centred practice
9- Therapeutic use of self
10- Modification of P E and O to enhance occupational performance

Question 2

Why is OT different and unique to other health professions?

Answer 2

Only profession that uses occupation as means and ends. Meaning we use occupation as the therapeutic medium to achieve the end goal of occupation.

Question 3

Define what an occupation is

Answer 3

Activities and tasks of everyday lives, given value and meaning by the individual doing them, non-repeatable experience and a unique context thus personally constructed.

Question 4

Define what an activity is

Answer 4

More general culturally shared idea about a category of action, not experienced by specific person and not observed as an occurrence. Hence not located in a temporal, spatial context. One a person does an activity, it becomes an occupation because it now has meaning to that person.

Question 5

Why is the difference between activity and occupation important?

Answer 5

OT’s start with what’s important to you, first activity analysis and then occupational analysis, need to know the difference to understand the process.