Intro to OT Defintions (1-35)

Activities

Actions designed and selected to support the development of performance skills and performance patterns to enhance occupational engagement.

Activities of daily living

Activities that are oriented toward taking care of one's body and are completed on a daily basis. These activities are "fundamental to living in a social world; they enable basic survival and well-being"

Activity analysis

generic and decontextualized analysis that seeks to develop an understanding of typical activity demands within a given culture.

Activity demands

aspects of an activity needed to carry it out, including relevance and importance to the client, objects used and their properties, space demands, social demands, sequencing and timing, required action and performance skills, and requires underlying body function and body structures.

Advocacy

efforts directed toward promoting occupational justice and empowering clients to seek and obtain resources to fully participate in their daily life occupations. Efforts undertaken by the practitioner are considered advocacy, and those undertaken by the client are considered self-advocacy and can be promoted and supported by the practitioner.

Analysis of occupational performance

the step in the evaluation process in which the client's assets and limitations or potential problems are more specifically determined through assessment tools designed to analyze, measure, and inquire about factors that support or hinder occupational performance.

Assessment

"a specific tool, instrument, or systemic interaction... used to understand a client's occupational profile, client factors, performance skills, performance patterns, and contextual and environmental factors, as well as activity demands that influence occupational performance".

Belief

something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion.

Body functions

"physiological functions of body systems (including psychological functions)"

Body structures

"anatomical parts of the body, such as organs, limbs, and their components" that support body functions.

Client

person (including one involved in the care of a client), group (collection of individuals having shared characteristics or common or shared purpose, e.g., family members, workers, students, and those with similar interests or occupational challenges), or population (aggregate of people with common attributes such as contexts, characteristics, or concerns, including health risks

Client-Centered Care

approach to service that incorporates respect for and partnership with clients as active participants in the therapy process. This approach emphasizes clients' knowledge and experience, strengths, capacity for choice, and overall autonomy.

Client factors

specific capacities, characteristics, or beliefs that reside within the person and that influence performance in occupations. Includes values, beliefs, and spirituality; body functions; and body structures.

Community

collection of populations that is changeable and diverse and includes various people, groups, networks, and organizations.

Context

construct that constitutes the complete makeup of a person's life as well as the common and divergent factors that characterize groups and populations. Includes environmental factors and personal factors.

Co-occupation

occupation that implicitly involves two or more individuals and includes aspects of physicality, emotionality, and intentionality.

Cornerstone

something of significance on which everything else depends.

Domain

profession's purview and areas in which its members have an established body of knowledge and expertise.

Empathy

emotional exchange between occupational therapy practitioners and clients that allows more open communication, ensuring that practitioners connect with clients at an emotional level to assist them with their current life situation.

Engagement in occupation

performance of occupations as the result of choice, motivation, and meaning within a supportive context.

Environmental factors

aspects of the physical, social, and attitudinal surroundings in which people live and conduct their lives.

Evaluation

"the comprehensive process of obtaining and interpreting the date necessary to understand the person, system, or situation... Requires synthesis of all date obtained, analytic interpretation of that date, reflective clinical reasoning, and consideration of occupational performance and contextual factors"

Goal

measurable and meaningful, occupational-based, long-term or short-term aim directly related to the client's ability and need to engage in desired occupations.

Group

collection of individuals having shared characteristics or a common or shared purpose (family members, workers, students).

Group intervention

use of direct knowledge and leadership techniques to facilitate learning and skill acquisition across the lifespan through the dynamics of group and social interaction. Groups may be used as a method of service delivery.

Habilitation

Health care services that help a person keel, learn, or improve skills and functioning for daily living. These services may include physical and occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, and other services for people with disabilities in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings.

Habits

"specific, automatic behaviors performed repeatedly, relatively automatically, and with little variation. Can be healthy or unhealthy, efficient or inefficient, and supportive or harmful".

Health

"state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity".

Health management

occupation focused on developing, managing, and maintaining routines for health and wellness by engaging in self-care with the goal of improving or maintaining health, including self-management, to allow for participation in other occupations.

Health promotion

"process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and individual or group must be able to identify and realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment".

Hope

real of perceived belief that one can move toward a goal through selected pathways.

Independence

"self-directed state of being characterized by an individual's ability to participate in necessary and preferred occupations in a satisfying manner irrespective of the amount or kind of external assistance desired or required".

Instrumental activities of daily living

activities that support daily life within the home an community and that often require more complex interactions that those used in ADLs.

Interdependence

"reliance that people have on one another as a natural consequence of group living". "Engenders a spirit of social inclusion, mutual aid, and a moral commitment and responsibility to recognize and support difference".

Intervention

"Process and skilled actions taken by occupational therapy practitioners in collaboration with the client to facilitate engagement in occupation related to health and participation. The process includes the plan, implementation, and review".