WHO'S WHO
Known as the Mother of Occupational Therapy
Who is Eleanor Clarke Slagle?
Founded in 1917 in Clifton Springs, NY.
What is the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy?
This entity of the American Occupational Therapy Association regulates entry-level education for both the occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant educational programs in the United States.
What is the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE)?
Basing occupational therapy practice on the best available research evidence.
What is evidence-based practice?
Interventions such as strengthening, exercise, and hot packs are used by occupational therapists to help get the patient ready for engagement in purposeful activity.
What are preparatory activities?
The current (2018) President of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
Who is Amy Lamb?
Initially responsible for accrediting Occupational Therapy Educational Programs.
What is the American Medical Association?
The entry-point into the occupational therapy profession?
What is the master's level?
This health insurance is the largest reimburser of occupational therapy services.
What is Medicare?
The area of occupation that includes eating, dressing, and bathing.
What are activities of daily living (ADL)?
Known as pioneers of the Moral Treatment Movement.
Who are William Tuke and Phillippe Pinel?
The three professional membership categories that exist in the American Occupational Therapy Association.
What are occupational therapists (OT), occupational therapy assistants (OTA), and occupational therapy students (OTS)?
The three categories of personnel who deliver occupational therapy services to patients.
Who are occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, and occupational therapy aides?
It is defined as the "things that people engage in that have meaning and give people identity."
What are occupations?
The AOTA developed this tool to clearly and concisely describe the occupational therapy profession.
What is the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework?
This individual is known for providing the initial foundational philosophical statement for the profession.
Who is Adolph Meyer?
The legislative and policy-making body of the AOTA.
What is the Representative Assembly?
This term is used when referring to any individual who is "initially certified to practice as either an OT or an OTA.
What is an occupational therapy practitioner?
This is the ability to carry out activities of daily life (including activities in the areas of occupations).
What is occupational performance?
This is known as a set of professional guidelines that provides a basis for helping occupational therapy professionals make the correct decisions for health care practice in occupational therapy.
What is the Code of Ethics?
During WWI, these individuals were known to use arts and crafts as interventions to treat the mind and body of soldiers injured during the war.
Who are occupational therapy reconstruction aides?
This organization provides an information exchange and advances the practice and standards of occupational therapy around the world.
What is the World Federation of Occupational Therapists?
This educational phase is to provide students with the opportunity to apply the knowledge learned in the classroom to practice in the clinical setting.
What is fieldwork?
This term refers to the client's habits, routines, roles, and rituals.
What are performance patterns?
An approach in which the client, family, and significant others are active participants throughout the occupational therapy therapeutic process.
What is client-centered?