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What are the 4 main constructs of occupational adaptation?
1. Person
2. Occupational environment
3. Occupational participation
4. Press for mastery
What is an assessment of the amount and level of cognitive, sensorimotor, and psychosocial capacities needed to respond to occupational challenges, roles, and role demands and perform an occupation with a level of mastery and competence?
Adaptation Gestalt
What are the two terms used to describe when a state of occupational adaptiveness is achieved?
Relative Mastery and Adaptive Capacity
What are the 6 occupational environments and contexts?
1. Social environment
2. Physical environment
3. Cultural context
4. Personal context
5. Virtual context
6. Temporal Context
What is the second principle of the occupational adaptation theory
Occupational adaptation is an intervention process that can guide critical thinking and reasoning in therapy
What are the processes within the press for mastery?
Occupational roles, occupational challenges, role demands and expectations, occupational responses
What are the 5 essential Occupational Adaptation elements?
1. A holistic and participation approach
2. Reestablish important occupational roles
3. Client is the agent of change
4. Occupations are central to eliciting adaptive responses
5. Increase relative mastery and adaptive capacity
What is the first principle of the Occupational Adaptation Theory:
Occupational adaptation is a normative, internal human process
Which historical figure did NOT contribute to the intellectual heritage of this theory?
A. Betty Yerxa
B. Adolf Meyer
C. Florence Clark
D. Mary Reilly
C. FLORENCE CLARK
What are the strengths of Occupational Adaptations?
1. Holistic
2. Evidence based
3. Applied across the lifespan
4. Assumptions adhere to the ideas of occupation and adaptation that are inherent in the professions history and philosophy
What is the term used to describe a person’s ability to recognize the need to change, modify, or refine responses to occupational challenges in their environment?
Adaptive Capacity
True or False: Strengths of the Occupational Adaptation Theory are that it is evidence-based and can be applied across the lifespan.
TRUE
What are the limitations of Occupational Adaptations?
1. Need for RCT’s on effectiveness
2. Lack of assessment tools that are explicitly based on OA theory
3. Some practitioners believe intervention based on meaning isn't practical.
Which process of the OA addresses person- defined sets of behavior?
A. Occupational Roles
B. Occupational Challenges
C. Role Demands and Expectations
D. Occupational Responses
A. OCCUPATIONAL ROLES
The Theory of Occupational Adaptation addresses the two global concepts of:
1. Occupation
2. Adaptation