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OTPF Vocabulary
OTPF Vocabulary - many of the definitions cut off due to character limit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Activities of Daily Living (ADL) | Activities oriented toward taking care of one's own body. These activities are "fundamental to living in a social world; they enable basic survival and well-being" |
| Activity (Activities) | a class of human actions that are goal directed |
| Activity analysis | "...addresses the typical demands of an activity, the range of skills involved in its performance, and the various cultural meanings that might be ascribed to it" |
| Activity demands | the aspects of an activity which include the objects and their physical properties, space, social demands, sequencing or timing, required actions or skills, and required underlying body functions and body structures needed to carry out the activity |
| Adaptation | The response approach the client makes encountering an occupational challenge. "This change is implemented when the individual's customary response approaches are found inadequate for producing some degree of mastery over the challenge." |
| Advocacy | The "pursuit of influencing outcomes - including public policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions - that directly affect people's lives" |
| Analysis of occupational performance | part of the evaluations process. Collecting information via assessment tools designed to observe, measure, and inquire about selected factors that support or hinder occupational performance |
| Areas of occupations | Various kinds of life activities in which people engage, including the following categories: ADLs, IADLs, rest and sleep, education, work, play, leisure, and social participation |
| Assessment | "specific tools or instruments that are used during the evaluation process" |
| Belief | Any cognitive content held as true by the client |
| Body functions | "the 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 function)" |
| Client | The entity that receives occupational therapy services. Clients may include (1) individuals and other persons relevant to the individual's life, including family caregivers, teachers, employers, and other who also may help or be served indirectly; (2) org |
| Client | The entity that receives occupational therapy services. Clients may include (1) individuals and other persons relevant to the individual's life; (2) organizations such as business, industries, or agencies; and (3) populations within a community |
| Client-centered approach | An orientation that honors the desires and priorities of clients in designing and implementing interventions |
| Client factors | Those factors residing within the client that may affect performance in areas of occupation. Client factors include values, beliefs, and spirituality; body functions; and body structures |
| Clinical reasoning | "Complex multi-faceted cognitive process used by practitioners to plan, direct, perform, and reflect on intervention" |
| Communication and social skills | Actions or behaviors a person uses to communicate and interact with others in an interactive environment |
| Cognitive skills | Actions or behaviors a client uses to plan and manage the performance of an activity |
| Context | Refers to a variety of interrelated conditions within and surrounding the client that influence performance. Contexts include cultural, personal, temporal, and virtual |
| Co-occupations | Activities that implicitly involve at least two people |
| Cultural | "Customs, beliefs, activity patterns, behavior standards, and expectations accepted by the society of which the [client] is a member. Includes ethnicity and values as well as political aspects, such as laws that affect access to resources and affirm perso |
| Domain | A sphere of activity, concern, or function |
| Education | Includes learning activities needed when participating in an environment |
| Emotional Regulation skills | Actions or behaviors a client uses to identify, manage, and express feelings while engaging in activities or interacting with others |
| Engagement | The act of sharing activities |
| Environment | The external physical and social environment that surrounds the client and in which the client's daily life occupations occur |
| Evaluation | "The process of obtaining and interpreting data necessary for intervention. This includes planning for and documenting the evaluation process and results" |
| Goals | "The result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end" |
| Habits | "Automatic behavior that is integrated into more complex patterns that enable people to function on a day-to-day basis..." Habits can be useful, dominating, or impoverished and either support or interfere with performance in areas of occupation |
| Health | A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. It is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, as well as positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities. |
| Health Promotion | "The 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, an individual or group must be able to identify and realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to |
| Hope | The real or perceived belief that one can move toward a goal through selected pathways |
| Identity | "A composite definition of the self and includes an interpersonal aspect...an aspect of possibility or potential (who we might become), and a values aspect (that suggests importance and provides a stable basis for choices and decisions)...Identity can be |
| Independence | "A 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. Self-determination is esse |
| Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) | Activities to support daily life within the home and community that often require more complex interactions than self-care |
| Interdependence | The "reliance that people have on each other as a natural consequence of group living". "Interdependence engenders a spirit of social inclusion, mutual aid, and a moral commitment and responsibility to recognize and support difference" |
| Interests | "What one finds enjoyable or satisfying to do" |
| Intervention | The 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 intervention process includes the plan, implementation, and review |
| Intervention approaches | Specific strategies selected to direct the process of interventions that are based on the client's desired outcome, evaluation date, and evidence. |
| Leisure | "A nonobligatory activity that is intrinsically motivated and engaged in during discretionary time, that is, time not committed to obligatory occupations such as work, self-care, or sleep" |
| Motor (of motor and praxis skills) | Actions or behaviors a client uses to move and physically interact with tasks, objects, contexts, and environments. Including planning, sequencing, and executing novel movements. |
| Occupation (6 definitions total) | "Goal-directed pursuits that typically extend over time, having meaning to the performance, and involve multiple tasks" |
| Occupation (6 definitions total) | "Daily activities that reflect cultural values, provide structure to living, and meaning to individuals; these activities meet human needs for self-care, enjoyment, and participation in society" |
| Occupation (6 definitions total) | "Activities that people engage in throughout their daily lives to fulfill their time and give life meaning. They involve mental abilities and skills and may or may not have an observable physical dimension" |
| Occupation (6 definitions total) | "Activities of everyday life, named, organized, and given value, and meaning by individuals and a culture. It is everything people do to occupy themselves, including looking after themselves, enjoying life, and contributing to the social and economic fabr |
| Occupation (6 definitions total) | "A dynamic relationship among an occupational form, a person with a unique developmental structure, subjective meanings and purpose, and the resulting occupational performance" |
| Occupation (6 definitions total) | "Chunks of daily activity that can be named in the lexicon of the culture" |
| Occupation based intervention | A type of occupational therapy intervention - a client-centered intervention in which the occupational therapy practitioner and client collaboratively select and design activities that have specific relevance or meaning to the client and support the clien |
| Occupational Justice | Justice related to opportunities and resources required for occupational participation sufficient to satisfy personal needs and full citizenship. To experience meaning and enrichment in one's occupations; to participate in a range of occupations for healt |
| Occupational performance | the act of doing an accomplishing a selected activity or occupation that results from the dynamic transaction among the client, the context, and the activity. Improving or enabling skills and patterns in occupational performance leads to engagement in occ |
| Occupational profile | A summary of the client's occupational history, patterns of daily living, interests, values, and needs. |
| Occupational science | An interdisciplinary academic discipline in the social and behavioral sciences dedicated to the study of the form, the function, and the meaning of human occupations |
| Occupational therapy | The practice of occupational therapy means the therapeutic use of everyday life activities (occupations) with individuals or groups for the purpose of participation in roles and situations in home, school, workplace, community, and other settings. Occupat |
| Organizations | Entities with a common purpose or enterprise such as businesses, industries, or agencies |
| Outcomes | What occupational therapy actually achieves for the consumers of its services. Change desired by the client that can focus on any area of the client's occupational performance. |
| Participation | Involvement in a life situation |
| Performance patterns | Patterns of behavior related to daily life activities that are habitual or routine. They can include habits, routines, rituals, and roles. |
| Performance skills | The abilities clients demonstrate in the actions they perform |
| Persons | Individuals, including families, caregivers, teachers, employees, and relevant others. |
| Personal | Features of the individual that are not part of a health condition or health status. Personal context includes age, gender, socioeconomic, and educational status. Can also include organizational levels (i.e. volunteers, employees) and populations levels ( |
| Physical environment | the natural and built nonhuman environment and objects in them |
| Play | any spontaneous or organized activity that provides enjoyment, entertainments, amusements, or diversion |
| Populations | large groups as a whole, such as refugees, homeless veterans, and people who need wheelchairs |
| Praxis | skilled purposeful movements. The ability to carry out sequential motor acts as part of an overall plan rather than individual acts. The ability to carry out learned motor activity, including following through on a verbal command, visual spatial construct |
| Preparatory methods | methods and techniques that prepare the client for occupational performance. Used in preparation for or concurrently with purposeful and occupation-based activities. |
| Prevention | Health promotion is equally and essentially concerned with creating the conditions necessary for health at individual, structural, social, and environmental levels through an understanding of the determinants of health: peace, shelter, education, food, in |
| Process | A description of the way in which occupational therapy practitioners operationalize their expertise to provide services to clients. The process includes evaluation, intervention, and outcome monitoring; occurs within the purview of the doman; and involves |
| Purposeful activity | A goal-directed behavior or activity within a therapeutically designed context that leads to an occupation or occupations. Specifically selected activities that allow the client to develop skills that enhance occupational engagement. |
| Quality of Life | A client's dynamic appraisal of life satisfactions (perceptions of progress toward identified goals), self-concept (the composite of beliefs and feelings about themselves), health and functioning (including health status, self-care capabilities) and socio |
| Re-evaluation | A Reassessment of the client's performance and goals to determine the type and amount of change. |
| Rest | Quiet and effortless actions that interrupt physical and mental activity, resulting in a relaxed state |
| Ritual | Symbolic actions with spiritual, cultural, or social meaning, contributing to the client's identity and reinforcing the client's values and beliefs. Rituals are highly symbolic with a strong affective component and representative of a collection of events |
| Roles | Roles are sets of behaviors expected by society, shaped by culture, and may be further conceptualized and defined by the client |
| Routines | Patterns of behavior that are observable, regular, repetitive, and that provide structure for daily life. They can be satisfying, promoting or damaging. Routines require momentary time commitment and are embedded in cultural and ecological contexts |
| Self-advocacy | Understanding your strengths and needs, identifying your personal goals, knowing your legal rights and responsibilities, and communicating these to others |
| Sensory-perceptual skills | Actions or behaviors a client uses to locate, identify, and respond to sensations and to select, interpret, associate, organize, and remember sensory events via sensations that include visual, auditory, proprioceptive, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, and v |
| gustatory | the sensory systems for the sense of taste |
| Sleep | A natural periodic state of rest for the mind and body, in which the eyes usually close and consciousness is completely or partially lost, so that there is a decrease in bodily movement and responsiveness to external stimuli. The brain in humans and other |
| Social environment | Is constructed by the presence, relationships, and expectations of persons, organizations, and populations |
| Social Justice | Ethical distribution and sharing of resources, rights, and responsibilities between people, recognizing their equal worth as citizens. It recognizes their equal right to be able to meet basic needs, the need to spread opportunities and life chances as wid |
| Social Participation | Organized patterns of behavior that are characteristic and expected of an individual in a given position with a social sysem |
| Spirituality | The personal quest for understanding answers to ultimate questions about life, about meaning, and about relationship with he sacred or transcendent, which may (or may not) lead to or arise from the development of religious rituals and the formation of the |
| Temporal | Location of occupational performance in time. The experience of time as shaped by engagement in occupations. The temporal aspects of occupations which contribute to the patterns of daily occupations are the rhythm, tempo, synchronization, duration, and se |
| Transactional | A process that involves two or more individuals or elements that reciprocally and continually influence and affect one another through the ongoing relationship. |
| Values | Principles, standards, or qualities considered worthwhile or desirable by the client who holds them |
| Virtual | Environment in which communication occurs by means of airways or computers and an absence of physical contact. Includes simulated or real-time or near-time existence of an environment, such as chat rooms, email, video conferencing, and radio transmissions |
| Wellness | An active process through which individuals become aware of and make choices toward a more successful existence. Wellness is more than a lack of disease symptoms. It is a state of mental and physical balance and fitness. |
| Work | Activities needed for engaging in remunerative employment or volunteer activities |
| remunerative | an activity that is profitable or brings in compensation |
| Performance skills | the abilities clients demonstrate in the actions they perform (OBSERVABLE!) |
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