Evaluation, Intervention, and Outcomes
This term refers to the process of adjusting an activity’s difficulty level to match a client’s abilities—either by making it easier or more challenging.
What is grading?
According to the PEO model, when these three things align, you achieve occupational performance.
What are the person, environment, and occupation?
The aim of this model of practice is to “eliminate or contain the effects of disease or trauma through manipulation or alteration of bodily structures and processes.”
What is the medical model?
Under the sensory integration FOR, this sensory modulation disorder involves having an insatiable desire for and seeking excessive amounts of sensory information or a specific type of sensory information.
What is Sensory Seeking/Craving?
In the activity of zipping a jacket, this category of client factors focuses on the anatomical parts involved, such as the muscles, bones, and nervous system.
What are body structures?
(Know and be able to apply body systems and body structures)
This approach focuses on changing the environment, tools, or task demands to support occupational performance, rather than changing the person.
What is modify?
This MOHO concept refers to a person's interests, values, and sense of personal causation that influence motivation for occupation.
What is volition?
(Inner Characteristics: Volition, Habituation, Performance capacity)
This type of memory allows you to retain information over extended periods, such as remembering your childhood home address or a past vacation.
What is long-term memory?
This OT founder researched the connection between neural function and sensorimotor behavior, developing the sensory integration frame of reference.
Who is A. Jean Ayres?
This social interaction skill involves starting a social exchanges in a way that is appropriate to the social context or setting?
What is initiates?
(Motor skill, process skill, social interaction skill)
According to the OTPF4, this intervention type focuses on changing attitudes, policies, or environments to support occupational participation—for example, helping a client request workplace accommodations.
What is advocacy?
In the CFTO, this element refers to the physical, emotional, and social abilities a person brings to the therapeutic process.
What are the developmental structures?
(Occupational form, meaning, developmental structures, purpose, occupational performance)
This tool is commonly used in OT to measure grip strength, often during hand evaluations or rehab following injury.
What is a dynamometer?
This approach believes that motor learning is dependent on not only the person, but also the context and the task being performed. CIMT is used through this neurodevelopmental approach.
What is the Contemporary Approach - Task Analysis?
In the OTPF, this motor performance skill refers to a person’s ability to maintain upright posture and balance during interactions with tasks or objects, without propping or losing stability.
What is stabilizes?
(motor skill, process skill, social interaction skill)
According to the OTPF4, this outcome of occupational therapy interventions includes the dynamic appraisal of the client’s life satisfaction.
What is quality of life?
In the CFTO, this type of action refers to observable behaviors such as reaching, grasping, or walking during occupational performance.
What is overt occupational performance?
(Overt vs. Covert)
According to this theory, development occurs from the center of the body outward
What is proximodistal?
This approach focuses on promoting voluntary movement through stages of motor recovery, often using synergy patterns and reflexive movements during therapy.
What is Brunnstrom’s Movement Therapy?
When determining the sequencing and timing of an activity, this key term in occupational therapy includes 5 components—3 of which are required: the action verb, how the action takes place, and the objects used or interacted with.
What is a procedural task analysis?
According to the OTPF4, the intervention plan is determined by the gap between two interconnecting components, which include the client's ability to perform occupations and this other vital component.
What are the demands of the occupations?
A client is doing laundry. This specific task fits into which level of doing in MOHO?
What is participation?
(Participation, performance, skills)
At this Allen Cognitive Level, individuals exhibit automatic reflexive behavior, unable to respond to their environment and requiring total assistance for care.
What is Allen Cognitive Level I. Coma
(I. Coma, II. Automatic Actions, III. Postural Actions, IV. Manual Actions, V. Goal-Directed Actions, VI. Exploratory Actions, VII. Planned actions)
This neurodevelopmental approach (NDT) focuses on normalizing tone, facilitating normal movement patterns, and inhibiting abnormal reflexes in individuals with neuromuscular impairments.
What is Bobath (NDT)?
This is the sequence of OT paradigms, which are crucial to the history of occupational therapy.
What is occupation paradigm, mechanistic paradigm, and contemporary paradigm?