Group Basics
Three or more people who are together for some period to accomplish a common goal or share a common purpose.
What is a group?
The entire group gangs up against one member
What is Scapegoating?
An OTA that demonstrates this characteristic supports and promotes the growth of individual group members.
What is nurture/nurturing?
Intake procedure and description of the patient that would best benefit from the group.
What is referral criteria?
This type of assessment is a standard against which an individual's performance is measured.
What is criteria/criterion?
A planned process for creating changes in individuals by bringing them together for this purpose.
What is Group Therapy?
Every member communicates with every other member and with the group leader.
Leader/OTA participation as a member of the group.
What is mature level group?
Demonstrated behaviors or skills that show a client has achieved the goals of the group.
What is exit criteria?
Shows consistency of the results when the test is repeated.
What is Reliability?
The constantly evolving, never static quality of groups.
What is Group Dynamics
Ability to work and play in the presence of others, comfortably and with an awareness of their presence.
What is Parallel group?
This behavior is the foundation for a successful group.
When starting the OT process in this manner, the OT begins with factors that appear to impede occupational performance.
What is bottom-up evaluation?
Shows the degree to which the test measures what it says it is measuring.
What is validity?
In a group protocol, this describes the media used to work toward the goals.
What is method?
The ability to share a short-term task with 1-2 other people.
What is Project group?
There are multiple ways the OTA collects data. These are three of them.
What is review of medical records, interviewing, questionnaires/checklists, observation, and tests/assessments?
This influences the practitioner's understanding of the client's conditions that give meaning to their occupational functioning when intervention planning for an individual or group.
What is context?
This structured interview gives the practitioner a measurement of the client's own perceptions about their occupational performance.
What is the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure?
In a 5 stage group, this stage implements verbal or symbolic activities to enhance cognitive functioning.
What is stage 4?
This group is hallmarked by the group's awareness of the group goals, norms, and willingness to abide by them.
What is Egocentric-Cooperative?
Observations are taking objective notes of behaviors. This on the other hand provides the assessment for the necessary documentation.
What is interpretation or inference?
The dichotomy of these two behavior descriptors will help the practitioner tailor intervention planning for successful occupational performance.
What are behaviors that are strengths and behaviors that are barriers?
This assessment assesses several ADL skills in a contrived environment.
What is Kohlman Evaluation of Living Skills?