OT Practice Framework – Types of Occupational Therapy Interventions – Flashcards

Purpose: Allows clients to engage in actual occupations that are part of their own context and that match their goals. Examples: • Play on playground equipment during recess. • Purchase own groceries and prepare a meal. • Adapt the assembly line to achieve greater safety. • Put on clothes without assistance

Purpose: Allows the client to engage in goal-directed behaviors or activities within a therapeutically designed context that lead to an occupation or occupations. Examples: • Practice vegetable slicing. • Practice drawing a straight line. • Practice safe ways to get in and out of a bathtub equipped with grab bars. • Role play to learn ways to manage anger

Purpose: Prepares the client for occupational performance. Used in preparation for purposeful and occupation-based activities. Examples: • Sensory input to promote optimum response • Physical agent modalities • Orthotics/splinting (design, fabrication, application) • Exercise

A practitioner's planned use of his or her personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments as part of the therapeutic process

Occupations and activities selected for specific clients that meet therapeutic goals. To use occupations/activities therapeutically, context or contexts, activity demands, and client factors all should be considered in relation to the client's therapeutic goals

A type of intervention in which practitioners use their knowledge and expertise to collaborate with the client. The collaborative process involves identifying the problem, creating possible solutions, trying solutions, and altering them as necessary for greater effectiveness. When providing consultation, the practitioner is not directly responsible for the outcome of the intervention.

An intervention process that involves the imparting of knowledge and information about occupation and activity and that does not result in the actual performance of the occupation/activity.