Code of Ethics
To guide AOTA members towards ethical professional decisions.
What is the purpose of the code of ethics?
An Occupational therapy practitioner having the knowledge and expertise for successful therapeutic interventions all while abiding by laws and regulations
What is Standard I: Professional Standing and Responsibility
If a client needs accommodations and a therapist asks them if they know who to contact to request reasonable accommodations?
What is Justice?
If a client isn't achieving the goals you had initially established, reevaluating in collaboration with the client.
What is beneficence?
An activity that a person finds meaningful to their identity. Usually is shaped by physical or social environment and culture.
What is occupation?
To guide the interactions of occupational therapy practitioners.
What are the purposes of the core values?
An Occupational therapy practitioner having the professional qualities to provide practice in various settings while ensuring service and safety of clients is effective.
What is Standard II: Service Delivery
A client comes to therapy and expresses their concern of being incapable of completing tasks or activities in therapy. Practitioner provides words of confidence and reassurance to a client while they are participating in their occupation.
What is Dignity?
Setting boundaries with the client to make sure the professional boundaries aren't crossed.
What is nonmaleficence?
In the context of occupational therapy, these are the morals that determine the practitioner's behavior.
What are ethics?
Guidelines that are the basis of practitioner's ethical decisions. Each practitioner will prioritize the guidelines specifically to their own beliefs.
What are the AOTA principles?
Occupational therapy practitioner taking note of what activities are most meaningful to an individual and considering their strengths and weaknesses are during occupational performance. Then establishing goals and reassessing the goals after occupational practice.
Standard III: Screening, Evaluation, and Reevaluation.
Allowing the client to determine which occupation is most meaningful and decide what they want their goals for therapy to be.
What is freedom?
An occupational therapy practitioner refers to an authorized personnel to make the decision for a client that is incapable.
What is Autonomy?
Treating every patient with the same respect, and valuing the differences of the client's lifestyles and beliefs.
What is equality?
Policies occupational therapy practitioners follow in order provide the best service to their clients and to be an honest employee.
What are the Standards of Conduct?
Developing a process that will enable clients to best participate in their meaningful occupation. This is done by taking the client's needs, goals, and environment (physical and social) into consideration .
What is Standard IV: Intervention Process?
An occupational therapy practitioner forgetting to document SOAP notes for a week but they write on the notes that they were taken late rather than falsifying the date.
What is truth?
If an occupational therapy practitioner also teaches throughout the year they will have to manage their time well. The practitioner needs to be committed to the client and the University.
What is Fidelity?
Foundations that guide occupational therapy practitioners to make ethical choices throughout their career based on their prioritized core values.
What is a principle?
True or false: Occupational therapy practitioners will have to use their own professional judgement based of the AOTA Code of Ethics in most ethical situations.
What is true?
Evaluating the results of the occupational performance and determining if the client is ready to move onto the next level of therapy or to end services.
What is Standard V: Outcomes, Transition, and Discontinuation?
Asking the client how they are feeling throughout the therapeutic process.
What is Altruism?
Occupational therapy practitioner does extensive research of the topic they are presenting for the AOTA panel to make sure the information is evidence-based and accurate with current trends.
What is Veracity?
Standards that the AOTA has determined to be an important foundation of the behavior of occupational therapy practitioners.
What is a value?