Theory
Model
Frame of Reference
Diagnosis
Systems/Community
100

This psychosocial lens focuses on how thoughts influence emotions and behaviors.

What is Cognitive/Behavioral theory?

100

This model explains volition, habituation, and performance capacity.

What is MOHO

100

This frame addresses maladaptive thinking patterns and uses structured activity planning.

What is the Cognitive Behavioral Frame of Reference?

100

This manual provides standardized criteria for psychiatric diagnoses but is not used for billing codes.

What is the DSM-5-TR?

100

This level of health focuses on broad prevention efforts such as suicide awareness campaigns.

What is Public Health?

200

This theory emphasizes internal unconscious conflict, defense mechanisms, and early experiences.

What is Psychodynamic theory?

200

his model emphasizes the interaction between person, environment, and occupation.

What is PEO

200

This frame emphasizes sensory modulation and regulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

What is the Sensory Integration Frame of Reference?

200

This coding system is required for reimbursement and documentation in healthcare settings.

What is ICD-10-CM?

200

This level of health focuses on specific group outcomes, such as rural veterans.

What is Population Health?

300

This lens emphasizes self-direction, hope, meaning, and lived experience rather than symptom reduction alone.

What is Humanistic/Recovery theory?

300

This model helps explain adaptive functioning levels in individuals with intellectual developmental disability.

What is the Cognitive Disabilities Model?

300

This frame focuses on role imbalance and difficulty maintaining expected life roles.

What is the Role Acquisition Frame of Reference?

300

This diagnostic group includes delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and negative symptoms.

What are Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

300

This level focuses on geographic access, partnerships, and service delivery within a region.

What is Community Health?

400

This theory examines how environmental systems and social context influence participation.

What is Systems/Ecological theory?

400

This model supports understanding occupational participation across environmental contexts and systems.

What is the Ecology of Human Performance (EHP) model?

400

This frame supports habit formation and structured routine development in schizophrenia.

What is the Behavioral Frame of Reference?

400

This category includes Bipolar I, Bipolar II, and Cyclothymic Disorder and involves shifts between mania and depression.

What are Bipolar and Related Disorders?

400

When a client misses appointments due to transportation or housing instability, this reasoning asks whether it is a participation barrier rather than noncompliance.

What is Occupational Justice reasoning?

500

This theoretical lens explains participation barriers caused by economic marginalization and housing instability.

What is Occupational Justice (or Systems theory applied to occupational justice)?

500

This model is especially useful when analyzing population-level barriers in rural veterans or adolescents in foster care.

What is PEO or EHP (Systems-informed occupation-based models)?

500

This frame emphasizes compensatory strategies and environmental modification in neurocognitive disorders.

What is the Cognitive Disabilities Frame of Reference?

500

This diagnostic category includes major depressive disorder, persistent depressive disorder, and substance-induced depressive disorder.

What are Depressive Disorders?

500

This system requires diagnosis for documentation and reimbursement, but does not replace occupation-centered reasoning.

What are DSM-5-TR and ICD-10-CM?