Adults
This setting often provides OT services to older adults recovering from surgery, like hip replacements.
What is a skilled nursing facility (SNF)?
This school-based document outlines services for students with disabilities.
What is an IEP (Individualized Education Program)?
OT helps clients with mental health challenges engage in these daily activities.
What are ADLs (Activities of Daily Living)?
Telehealth is an example of this type of service delivery.
What is remote or virtual care?
OTs work in this setting to help clients regain skills after hospitalization.
What is acute rehab or inpatient rehab?
A common condition treated in adults that affects memory and daily living tasks.
What is dementia?
A common diagnosis seen in pediatric OT that affects attention and impulse control.
What is ADHD?
This setting provides short-term psychiatric care.
What is an inpatient psychiatric unit?
OTs can support veterans through this federal health system.
What is the VA (Veterans Affairs)?
The OT Practice Framework groups occupations into how many main categories?
What is 9?
This type of care helps clients return to work after injury.
What is work rehabilitation or return-to-work programming?
Pediatric OTs often use play as a tool to support this type of development.
What is motor, process or social development?
A group OT might lead to help clients express emotions or build social skills.
What is a psychoeducational group or therapeutic group?
OTs working with the homeless population are an example of this practice area.
What is community-based practice?
This area includes tasks like managing finances or using public transportation.
What are IADLs (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living)?
Name one occupation that an adult may need to relearn after a TBI?
What is dressing, cooking, or bathing?
This condition affects social communication and repetitive behaviors.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
This diagnosis includes cycles of depression and mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
Name one role OTs might play in primary care settings.
What is chronic disease management, medication adherence, etc.?
OT’s focus on the interaction between person, environment, and this third factor.
What is occupation?
This term refers to a person's ability to carry out meaningful daily tasks like cooking, grooming, or managing medications, which OTAs often help improve in adult clients.
What is occupational performance?
Fine motor delays can affect a child's ability to do this classroom task.
What is handwriting?
One of the OTA’s main roles in mental health is to help clients build these, which are needed for successful daily routines and community living.
What are life skills?
OTs can support this population in the justice system.
What are individuals who are incarcerated or justice-involved youth?
This foundational document outlines the domain and process of OT.
What is the OT Practice Framework (OTPF)?