Activity Analysis Questions – Flashcards
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A Client in a small craft group displays an aggressive behavior towards another client. According to the OTPF, this is an example of what type of emotional regulation skill that the client may not be managing well?
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Anger
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Clients in a small craft group are working well together in completing an activity. According to the OTPF, this is an example of what time of emotional regulation skill?
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Responding
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By encouraging a client to work within a group in order to complete a craft project, what outcome are you addressing?
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Social Participation
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If you decrease the amount of time allotted for the completion of a craft activity, you are:
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Grading Up
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The client is having difficulty manipulating scissors to cut the fabric. According to the OTPF, this client is having difficulty with
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Fine motor skills
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According to the OTPF, at what social level is the client participating in this activity?
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Community
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According to the OTPF, what us the area of occupation used to denote a non-obligatory activity that is intrinsically motivated and engaged in during discretionary time?
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Leisure
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A client in a small craft group is demonstrating difficulty manipulating a paintbrush. According to the OTPF, this is an example of what type of motor and praxis skill that the client is lacking?
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Fine motor control
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What are the two primary performance skills identified through the use of the Paper Plate Thanksgiving Craft? (Circle two)
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1. Fine Motor Control 2. Communication Skills
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What would be an example of grading down the Paper Plate Thanksgiving Craft?
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Provide client with pre-cut materials
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Which of the following would adapt the Picture Frame Activity?
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Using a gripper for tools like paintbrushes or pencils
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Which of the following is NOT a fine motor skill used in this activity?
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Walking to get paint
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Which of the following tasks could be used to develop sensory-perceptual skills?
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Judging the amount of water needed to fill the bottle
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What would be an appropriate example of adapting the Jellyfish in the Bottle craft for a client with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) who is unable to tolerate the feeling of glitter on their hands, but is able to complete all other aspects of the craft independently?
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Provide the client with gloves
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Students in the 2015 graduating class learning to understand activity analysis would use which document? (Chapter 1)
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Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, 2nd edition
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How would a practitioner explain to a client the American Occupational Therapy Association's definition of occupation? (Chapter 1)
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Everything people do to occupy themselves
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A practitioner analyzing how a client makes tea is conducting what type of activity analysis? (Chapter 2)
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Occupation-based
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An OT student required to complete a collage to be graded as a project for class would be engaginig in which area of occupation? (Chapter 2)
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Education
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A therapist is trying to sequence the occupation of a pharmacist, but is unable to obtain details from the pharmacist who suffered a traumatic brain injury about how the occupation is performed. What would be the next best source for the therapist to gather information on the activities of a pharmacist? (Chapter 3)
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Co-Worker
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A therapist has determined that a client was successful in completing the first three sequencing steps of a showering activity. The therapist is ready to move the client onto the remaining steps of the activity. What was the basis for the therapist reaching this decision? (Chapter 3)
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Client success
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Three clients are working together to bake cookies. An argument breaks out among the clients because one client licks the spoon when stirring the dough. When planning this activity what did the therapist not do that might have avoided the argument? (Chapter 4)
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Determine the social demands of the activity for participation
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Five clients are working in a kitchen to make breakfast in an area designed for three people. What did the therapist overlook when planning this activity with the clients? (Chapter 4)
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Size
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Immediately after the therapist instructs a client on safety awareness at the stove, the client is not aware that their shirt is touching the stove burner when scrambling eggs. The therapist suspects that the client may have a deficit in which area of body function? (Chapter 5)
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Mental
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A client suffered a shoulder injury and is now cleared to resume playing baseball. The therapist has the client swing the bat at the proper angle in order to successfully hit the ball across the room to the far wall. What is the therapist assessing? (Chapter 5)
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Client's awareness of body position and space
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The therapist instructs a client on how to lift themselves up from the floor into the wheelchair using only upper body action. When doing this activity what challenge is the client facing? (Chapter 5)
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Muscle power
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An OT student on a Level II fieldwork is presenting to the rehab team a treatment method for normalizing tone in the extremity of a client who suffered a CVA. Which cardiovascular systems of the student may be challenged during the presentation? (Chapter 5)
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Heart rate and blood pressure
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A client has a goal for increasing independence in self-feeding. The client is refusing to eat dinner complaining that meals before bedtime leave the client with stomach pains. The therapist concludes that the client may have a problem with which system? (Chapter 5)
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Digestive
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Which body structure is the central structure of the nervous system that processes both sensory information and sends motor responses? (Chapter 6)
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Brain
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A patient has difficulty in self-esteem, fine and gross motor control, and smell. The therapist suspects that the client may have deficits in which body system? (Chapter 6)
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Nervous
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The OT practitioner recognizes the importance of each body system and how one can influence performance of activities. Of all of the body structure categories, which category has the greatest number of body structures involved? (Chapter 6)
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Structures related to movement
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The therapist suspects that there is a deficit in awareness of location and distance of sound in a client being treated in a rehab room with competing voices from many other clients and therapists. Which body structure would apply for this deficit? (Chapter 6)
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Nervous system
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Which statement represents how the American Occupational Therapy Association defines performance skills? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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Observable, concrete, goal-directed actions used to perform meaningful tasks
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A student giving a presentation on a Fieldwork II is working hard to stay calm and not show nervousness. Which performance skill might influence the student's communication skills? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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Emotional regulation
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A therapist ONLY uses range of motion and muscle strengthening to increase left upper extremity use with a client post-surgery. The therapist is said to be using what type of non-occupation based treatment approach? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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Bottom up
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A client's goals are focused on returning to work as a baker. Treatment activities are for the client to follow baking recipes using sequencing, what type of treatment is the client engaging in? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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Occupation as ends and means
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A therapist wants to treat a client with a visual perceptual deficit, but is unsure about the client's interests and activities prior to the deficit. What is the FIRST step the therapist is likely to do before developing treatment goals with the client? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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Assess client's occupational history
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A client is dressing their upper body. The therapist observes that the client's movements are planned and executed with good control. Which performance skill is the therapist assessing? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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Motor and praxis
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A client expects to return to work as an insurance sales person after a short stay in a mental health facility. The therapist asks the client to prioritize the activities of a sales person that require skills for success. Which one of the performance skills might the client list as the number ONE priority? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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Communication and social
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A therapist's goal for a client is for independent and safe participation in home management tasks. This is an example of what type of occupational goal? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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An end
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Which is the BEST example of using occupation as a means? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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Client with deficit in organizational skills uses a memory tool
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The therapist asks the client who plays baseball to hit a ball thrown to the client from across the room. The therapist instructs the client to hold the bat at an angle to swing at the ball without looking at the bat or their arms. Which performance skill is the therapist assessing? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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Sensory-perceptual
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A client working as a volunteer in an outpatient facility in preparation for part-time paid employment would most likely be engaging in what type of treatment goal? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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Occupation as means and ends
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A client using fine motor skills to operate a computer after carpal tunnel syndrome surgery is becoming increasingly agitated because of not being able to manipulate the keyboard as well as they did prior to surgery. The therapist suspects that the client's behavior may be a decreased ability in which performance skill? (Chapter 7/Gray article)
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Emotional regulation
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In order to understand the demands of an activity as a client needs and wants to do it, which type of activity must be completed? (Chapter 8 and Bissell & Mailloux article)
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Occupation-based
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An occupational therapist needs to gain an understanding of the client and the activities that are important to the client would use which type of instrument? (Chapter 8 and Bissell & Mailloux article)
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Occupational profile
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An occupational therapist discusses with the client their physical, social and cultural environments at home. The occupational therapist is said to be gathering information about which aspect of the client's life? (Chapter 8 and Bissell & Mailloux article)
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Context
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A therapist is explaining to a group of clients when occupational therapists began to use crafts in client treatment. Which statement represents the answer the therapist would give to the client about the profession's first use of crafts? (Chapter 8 and Bissell & Mailloux article)
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In hospitals for the mentally ill
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In a study of occupational therapists working in physical disability settings, survey results showed eight reasons for incorporating crafts into occupational therapy treatment. Which reason ranked as number ONE in survey results for therapists working in physical disability settings? (Chapter 8 and Bissell & Mailloux article)
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Improve fine-motor control
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An occupational therapist decreases the demands of an activity of a client while the client is doing the activity to increase the client's ability to finish the activity. What has the therapist done? (Chapter 9 and Bissell & Mailloux article)
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Graded the activity
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A client with severe hand arthritis can be independent in self-feeding if the occupational therapist gives the client a spoon with a built up handle. What has the therapist done to increase the client's ability to be independent in self-feeding? (Chapter 9 and Bissell & Mailloux article)
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Adapted the activity
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A client who has suffered a stroke is relearning how to put on a shirt using only one arm. Initially, the occupational therapist provided moderate assistance to the client. After several treatment sessions, the occupational therapist is now providing minimal assistance. What has the therapist done to the activity of the client putting on a shirt? (Chapter 9 and Bissell & Mailloux article)
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Scaffold the activity
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According to a survey of occupational therapists in physical disability settings who used crafts in client treatment, the difficulty was mostly in justifying the use of crafts to which group of people? (Chapter 9 and Bissell & Mailloux article)
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The patient
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According to a survey of who uses crafts more in a physical disability setting, which group was ranked as number ONE? (Chapter 9 and Bissell & Mailloux article)
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COTA