What are occupations?
What is self-care?
Anything you do to take care of yourself i.e. eating, dressing, personal hygiene, sleep, cooking
What are assessments?
Assessments are tools that help us determine a client's physical and cognitive skills needed to function or perform tasks.
What is ADL/IADL training?
OTs teach individuals skills needed to engage in their daily activities, such as dressing, grooming, and meal management.
What is the focus of OT?
OT is function-based. This means we adapt the environment and teach individuals skills needed to engage in "doing life". Ex. accessing food hampers and community services, transportation, doing laundry
What is productivity?
Activities you do that contribute to society i.e. volunteering, studying, grocery shopping
What are functional assessments?
OTs observe how an individual is currently completing their daily tasks and use this information to make recommendations.
What are some environmental adaptations?
What is an activity analysis?
OTs break down an activity into steps and identify the physical and cognitive skills needed. This is used to help us adapt and modify difficulty level (grade) during goal setting.
What is leisure?
Activities that you enjoy doing i.e. hobbies, gardening, playing
What are cognitive assessments?
Cognitive assessments assess an individual's thinking skills such as attention, memory, executive functioning and language. Ex. MoCA, MMSE
What is goal setting?
OTs use motivational interviewing to identify individual's values and reasons for change to set achievable goals tailored to them.
What are non-sanctioned occupations?
Activities that are considered to be unhealthy or deviant within a particular social, cultural, and political context.
What are standardized assessments?
Strong evidence-based assessments that are conducted and scored in a consistent way. Ex. COPM. Some assessments allow you to compare an individual's data against a population. Ex. AMPS
What are coping strategies?
OTs teach clients skills such as CBT, DBT and self-regulation skills to navigate anxiety, addictive or self-injurious behaviours.