Occupational Therapy
Basics
Basics
This term refers to the practice of helping individuals regain skills for everyday living.
What is Occupational Therapy?
The profession of occupational therapy originated in this century.
What is the 20th century?
Name one type of adaptive equipment commonly used in occupational therapy to assist individuals with mobility limitations.
In this setting, occupational therapists help individuals transition back into their homes after hospitalization.
What is home health or home care?
This principle requires occupational therapists to act in the best interest of their clients.
What is Beneficence?
Occupational Therapy aims to improve individuals' abilities to engage in meaningful activities, also known as this.
What is occupations?
What is the United States?
This intervention approach emphasizes the use of graded activities and exercises to improve strength, range of motion, and functional abilities.
What is therapeutic exercise or physical rehabilitation?
In this setting, occupational therapists work with individuals to improve skills needed for driving.
What is Driving Rehabilitation?
What is the process that occupational therapists engage in professional competency?
What is professional development or continuing education?
This model emphasizes the importance of considering the interaction between the person, environment, and occupation.
What is the Person-Environment-Occupation (PEO) model?
This influential figure is often referred to as the "Mother of Occupational Therapy".
Who is Eleanor Clarke Slagle?
This device is used to immobilize or support a body part.
What is a splint?
This specialized setting focuses on providing services to children with developmental delays or disabilities.
What is Pediatric Occupational Therapy or Early Intervention?
This term refers to the intentional and deliberate use of one's personality, insights, perceptions, and judgements as a tool in the occupational therapy process.
What is therapeutic use of self?
The Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) is a widely used theoretical framework in occupational therapy. Name one of the three subsystems identified in MOHO.
What are volition, habituation, or performance capacity?
This war significantly expanded the role of occupational therapy in rehabilitation.
What is World War I?
In pediatric occupational therapy, this intervention approach focuses on promoting the development of foundational skills necessary for future academic success, social interactions, and daily living tasks.
What is sensory integration or sensory processing?
What is neurological rehabilitation(neuro)?
This ethical principle in occupational therapy practice underscores the importance of promoting fairness and equality in service provision.
What is social justice?
The first occupational therapy program in the United States was established at this university in 1918.
What is The Boston School of Occupational Therapy?
Name two types of cognitive rehabilitation approaches commonly used in occupational therapy to address deficits in executive functioning and memory.
What are remediation therapy and compensatory strategies training?
This emerging area of occupational therapy practice involves providing services to underserved or marginalized communities, addressing social determinants of health and promoting health equity?
What is community-based or community-health occupational therapy?
The principle in occupational therapy ethics that emphasizes the obligation of occupational therapists to speak up for the the rights and well-being of their clients, ensuring access to necessary services and resources.
What is advocacy?