Treatment Settings
Includes schools, workshops, and day treatments
What are settings with a social focus?
Guides the treatment process to select the “right action” in the face of uncertainties that come up during the OT process
What is the artistic element?
Devices that require individual adjustments to use; requires maintenance and refinements to ensure that it is meeting the client’s needs; consider the safety of devices
What are high tech AT?
Includes facial expressions, eye contact, tone of voice, touch, and body language
What is non-verbal communication?
Common diagnosis for this age group: failure to thrive, developmental delays, spina bifida, and Erb's palsy
What is infancy?
Includes: Sudden onset, Short-term stay, and Hospitals
Answers the question: “What SHOULD be done for this client?” or “What is right and fair path to take?”
What is the ethical element?
Devices provide simple solutions to everyday problems and may include everyday products in mainstream stores
What are low tech AT?
Ability to recognize one’s own behavior, emotional responses, and the effect created on others
What is self-awareness?
generally considered a time when the individual has met the requirements for the career or job and has an established work history.
What is middle adulthood?
Includes hospitals, clinics, and home health
What are settings with a biological focus?
Evaluation and assessment measures used to determine strength and weaknesses
What is the scientific element?
Refers to changes in the environment to support a person’s ability to engage and be included in desired occupations
What are environmental modifications?
Listening without making judgments, jumping in with advice, or providing defensive replies
What is active listening?
Play is the occupation during this developmental stage, and the way children learn and practice social, cognitive, and motor abilities.
What is childhood?
Includes administration, levels of care, and areas of practice
What are characteristics of settings?
Includes pragmatic, interactive, conditional, narrative, procedural, and scientific reasoning
What are therapeutic reasoning strategies?
A tool to guide one’s intervention
Tells what to do and how to evaluate and provide specific interventions
What is a frame of reference?
Includes awareness of oneself- communication, presentation, and relating to others
What is the therapeutic relationship?
Leisure activities and social participation become very important during this developmental stage; It is also a period for establishing one’s self-identity.
What is adolescence?
Includes Longer length of stay; Specialized service
What is subacute care?
Thought process that OT practitioners use to evaluate clients and design and carry out intervention
What is therapeutic reasoning?
Takes the philosophical base of the profession and organizes the concepts for practice; for OT the focus is occupation
What is an occupation-based model of practice?
the ability to place oneself in another person’s position and understand the other’s experience.
what is empathy?
Many physical changes occur during this period, and the individual must adjust to physical changes.
What is older adulthood?
Where the most occupational therapy assistants are employed
What are skilled nursing facilities?
People who promote change, influence others, and guide decision making without serving in positions with titles or roles
What is informal leadership?
These are guidelines that designers can use to improve their designs to make them accessible to people of all ages, genders, and disabilities
What are universal design principles?
Use a Collaborative effort to create change; These leaders empower others; they inspire, motivate, and lead with vision
What is transformational leadership?
the developmental tasks include finding a significant relationship, securing employment, and developing a career path
What is young adulthood?