Areas of Occupations
Everyday activities that people do as individuals, in families, and the community that bring meaning and purpose to life
What is occupations?
Determining the relevance and importance to the client
What is Step 2?
aspects of the physical, social, and attitudinal surroundings in which people live and conduct their lives; examples include attitudes, services systems and policies
What is environmental context?
Brain, spinal nerves, meninges, cranial nerves
What is nervous system structures?
Acquired beliefs and commitments, derived from culture, about what is good, right, and important to do
what is values?
An OTA is working with a child with on using a spoon to bring food to the mouth
What is ADL-feeding?
Occupations that involve more than one person and can complicate activity analysis
What is co-occupation?
particular background of a person’s life and living and consist of the unique features of the person that are not part of a health condition or health state. Includes age; personal upbringing and lifestyle
What is personal context?
lungs, trachea, intercostal muscles, diaphragm
what is respiratory structures?
Something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion
What is beliefs?
Mikayla has been practicing chess on her own for a few weeks, her mother encourages her to join a chess club to hone her skills.
What is Leisure participation?
Mentally process the steps
Engage in the activity yourself
Talk to your client
Talk to someone who performs this activity
Watch someone perform the activity
What are methods to determine the key steps?
sensation related to position, balance, and secure movement against gravity
What is vestibular function?
salivary glands, esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver
What is structures of the digestive, metabolic and endocrine systems?
A deep experience of meaning brought about by engaging in occupations that involve the enacting of personal values and beliefs, reflection, and intention
what is spirituality?
Ben volunteers his time to serve food at the local soup kitchen every Sunday
What is work?
What is determining the sequence and timing?
Judgment, concept formation, metacognition, executive functions, praxis, cognitive flexibility, insight
What is higher level cognitive function?
vocal folds, pharynx, tongue and lips
includes communication rules and behavior; shaped by culture & social contexts
What is social demands?
At the chess club Mikayla meets like minded chess players and befriends them. They decide on having lunch before every chess club meeting
What is social participation?
Lighting; noise; temperature; arrangement of space; lighting; size; ventilation; surface
What is space demands?
Maintenance of blood pressure functions (hypertension, hypotension, postural hypotension), heart rate and rhythm
what is cardiovascular system function?
eyeballs, tympanic membrane, cochlea, internal auditory meatus
This step determines objects, space and social demands within activity analysis