Occupations
These are the everyday activities that individuals engage in, which bring meaning and purpose to life, and are central to occupational therapy practice.
What are occupations?
In the OTPF-4, environmental and personal factors can either support a client's occupational performance or hinder it. Name the two opposing terms used to describe these influences, where one promotes engagement and the other restricts it.
What are facilitators and barriers? / What are positive and negative influences?
From automatic actions to deeply symbolic traditions, the OTPF-4 describes four key patterns that structure how individuals and groups engage in their occupations. List these four distinct types.
Observable, goal-directed actions and consist of motor skills, process skills, and social interaction skills.
What are Performance Skills?
These are specific capacities, characteristics, or
beliefs that reside within the person, group, or population and influence performance in occupations.
What are Client Factors?
This category of occupations includes tasks like managing finances, preparing meals, and caring for others, which support daily life within the home and community.
What are Instrumental Activities of Daily Living?
This OTPF-4 client factor includes aspects of a person like their age, gender, and cultural background, which influence what they do.
What are personal factors?
The OTPF-4 describes these as consistent, ordered sequences of activities that organize our daily lives. They are significant because they can either support or damage an individual's health.
What are routines?
When an occupational therapist observes and analyzes a client's specific physical movements, like shoulder rotation during a golf swing, they are examining this type of performance skill.
What are Motor Skills?
This client factor includes what your muscles do, how your senses work, and your mental abilities like thinking and feeling.
What are body functions?
Playing a board game or caring for an infant are examples of this specific kind of occupation, defined by the need for two or more individuals.
What is co-occupation?
The environmental and personal factors specific to each client (person, group, population) that influence engagement and participation in occupations.
What are contexts?
The automatic act of always putting your keys in the same dish by the door as soon as you walk in is an example of this specific type of performance pattern.
What is a habit?
When an occupational therapist observes how a client organizes materials, initiates steps, or adapts to problems while cooking a meal, they are evaluating this specific type of performance skill.
What are Process Skills?
In the OTPF-4, this client factor describes the anatomical parts of the body like organs and limbs.
What are Body Structures?
Brushing teeth, buttoning a shirt, and transferring from a bed to a wheelchair are all examples of this fundamental category of self-care occupations.
What are ADLs?
You are treating a young man recovering from a gunshot wound who lives on the third floor of a walk-up apartment building with no elevator. You know this significant barrier will impact his ability to participate in his community outings. This challenge represents a contextual factor specifically categorized as this type in the OTPF-4.
What are Environmental Factors?
Baking cut-out cookies with your family every Christmas on a Sunday morning is a yearly tradition that carries special significance. This recurring and symbolic performance pattern is best described as...
What is a Ritual?
Beyond just communicating, this fundamental category of performance skills involves the observable actions a person uses to effectively understand and respond to verbal and nonverbal cues, maintain emotional regulation, and achieve shared goals in interpersonal occupations.
What are Social Interaction Skills?
Among client factors, these three interconnected aspects specifically influence a client's motivation to engage in occupations and find meaning or purpose in their lives.
What are Values, Beliefs, & Spirituality?
The OTPF-4, organizes the broad range of human occupations into a definitive set of categories that guide our practice. Name five of these nine distinct categories of occupation.
This concept in occupational therapy refers to the right of every individual to engage in meaningful and enriching occupations, regardless of their circumstances.
What is occupational justice?
David, a 30-year-old full-time student, also works 20 hours a week, cares for his elderly mother, and volunteers as a youth soccer coach. He often feels overwhelmed trying to balance his commitments. His current challenge involves managing the various, expected patterns of behavior and responsibilities associated with these distinct positions in his life, which the OTPF-4 classifies as his..
What are roles?
An occupational therapist assesses motor skills in an individual client, social interaction skills within a support group, and process skills within a community cooking program. This demonstrates how occupational therapists analyze performance skills when working with clients at these three distinct levels.
What are persons, groups, and populations?