The Founders
Regulations
Words to know
Core Values
Hodgepodge
100
Person considered the "father of occupational therapy".
Who is William Dunton?
100
Act which resulted in shorter hospital stays for patients.
What is the Prospective Payment System of 1983?
100
The philosophical component that is concerned with the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge.
What is epistemology?
100
Refers to using the best available research to justify therapy decisions, to show that therapy is cost effective and beneficial, and to provide support for practice.
What is evidence-based practice?
100
The basic unit of action within an activity.
What is a task?
200
Person considered the "mother of occupational therapy".
Who is Eleanor Clarke Slagle?
200
The health insurance program for people age 65 and older and those with certain disabilities?
What is Medicare?
200
The science of fitting the job to the person.
What is ergonomics?
200
Value which is demonstrated by behavior that is accountable, honest and accurate and maintains one's professional competence.
What is truthfulness?
200
The term used to describe activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, education, work, play, leisure, and social participation
What are areas of occupation?
300
He initiated the use of crafts for the purpose of improving patients' health and financial independence.
Who is Herbert Hall?
300
The act that provides protection from discrimination on the basis of disability.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
300
The term used to describe the desire of more elderly people to remain in their homes?
What is aging in place?
300
A belief that the client should be treated as a person, not an object.
What is humanism?
300
The year Medicare was enacted.
What is 1965?
400
He introduced "work treatment" for the "insane" in the late 1700s.
Who is Phillipe Pinel?
400
The act which mandates schools educate students in the least restrictive environment and provide assistive technology and related services (including OT) as deemed appropriate to the child's educational needs.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Educational Act (IDEA)?
400
A pattern of behavior that involves certain rights and duties that an individual is expected, trained, or encouraged to perform in a particular social situation?
What is a role?
400
A core value of OT which nurtures independence in the client rather than retaining direction and control by the practitioner.
What is freedom?
400
The year the profession of occupational therapy assistant was introduced.
What is 1958?
500
He provided the philosophical base of holistic perspective to the profession of occupational therapy.
Who is Adolph Meyer?
500
The legislation which resulted in an annual reimbursement cap for occupational therapy services originally at $1500 (currently $1900).
What is the Balanced Budget Act of 1997?
500
The type of research that involves the clinician, faculty, and client in the process and allows faculty to close the gap between academia and practice.
What is participatory research?
500
A movement grounded in the philosophy which maintains that all people, even the most challenged, are entitled to consideration and human compassion.
What was Moral Treatment?
500
An approach which views humankind as separately functioning body parts?
What is reductionistic?