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Occupational Therapy Foundations and Professional Practice
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Occupational Therapy Foundations and Professional Practice
Occupational Therapy Foundations and Professional Practice
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1
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How is occupational therapy defined as a health profession?
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Occupational therapy is a client-centred health profession concerned with promoting health and wellbeing through occupation.
2
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What is the central goal of occupational therapy intervention?
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The goal is engagement in everyday life through participation.
3
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How does the occupational therapy lens explain occupational performance?
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Occupational performance emerges from a dynamic fit among the person, occupation, environment, and time or context. It is not explained by the person alone.
4
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Which factors characterize the person within the occupational therapy lens?
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The person is characterized by abilities, values, habits, and roles.
5
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Which elements characterize the occupation within the occupational therapy lens?
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Occupation is characterized by task demands, purpose, and meaning.
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Why is occupational therapy broader than helping people find jobs?
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Work is one occupation, but occupational therapy addresses a much broader range of occupations and participation in everyday life.
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How does occupational therapy differ from treatment limited to upper-extremity physical therapy?
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Occupational therapy may address body functions, but it does so in relation to participation.
8
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Why is describing occupational therapy as primarily for children incomplete?
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Occupational therapists work across the lifespan and with individuals, groups, and communities.
9
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How can the same activity become different occupations?
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The same activity can become different occupations depending on its meaning, context, role, purpose, time, and routine.
10
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In the cooking example, which occupations can cooking represent?
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Cooking can represent self-care, caregiving, work, family participation, cultural expression, or leisure.
11
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How does occupation-centred practice guide occupational therapy reasoning?
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Occupation remains the central organizing lens for understanding the client and guiding decisions.
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How does occupation-based practice differ from occupation-focused practice?
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Occupation-based practice uses the person’s actual engagement in occupation as the method of evaluation or intervention. Occupation-focused practice makes occupation the immediate focus of evaluation or the immediate intent of intervention.
13
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Which four foundations shape occupational therapy professional practice?
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The four foundations are philosophy, science, the art of practice, and ethics.
14
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How does a profession combine specialized knowledge with social responsibility?
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It uses a distinct knowledge base, formal education, a defined scope, ethical standards, regulation, and continuing competence to guide responsible practice.
15
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In Juan’s case, what outcome matters beyond impairment change?
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Participation and satisfactory performance matter, specifically enabling Juan to prepare breakfast for his grandchildren again.
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How did moral treatment contribute to the early development of occupational therapy?
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It promoted humane treatment, structured daily life, and participation in education, daily living, work, play, music, literature, and exercise.
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Why was meaningful activity considered important in moral treatment?
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Pinel and Tuke emphasized that meaningful activity, environment, and healthy habits could support health and more satisfying functioning.
18
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How did the Arts and Crafts Movement influence occupational therapy?
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It reacted against industrialization and the loss of meaningful work by emphasizing authenticity, craftsmanship, creativity, and quality of life.
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How did moral treatment differ from the Arts and Crafts Movement?
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Moral treatment emphasized humane care, structured daily life, and healthy habits. The Arts and Crafts Movement emphasized authentic, creative, meaningful work as a support for identity and well-being.
20
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Which contribution is associated with William Rush Dunton Jr.?
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He wrote about the value of occupation and published “Occupational Therapy: A Manual for Nurses” in 1915. He is identified as the Father of Occupational Therapy.
21
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Which contributions are associated with Eleanor Clarke Slagle?
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She developed habit training and was associated with the Henry B. Favil School of Occupations. She is identified as the Mother of Occupational Therapy.
22
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How did Adolf Meyer conceptualize activities within occupational therapy?
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He emphasized “mental hygiene,” the balance of work, rest, play, and socialization, and the importance of habits, problem solving, and negative thinking.
23
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How did occupational therapy become more formally organized in 1917?
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The National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy was founded as a formal professional association, with its first annual meeting held in New York.
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What changed in occupational therapy during the 1920s and 1930s?
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Professional infrastructure grew through the emergence of journals, educational standards, governance structures, and accreditation processes.
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Why did professionalization change the central questions facing occupational therapy?
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The profession addressed not only whether occupation helped, but also how qualified practitioners should be educated, governed, and held accountable.
26
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How did World War I expand occupational therapy responsibilities?
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In 1917, a reconstruction program and reconstruction aides developed, followed in 1918 by vocational rehabilitation for disabled soldiers.
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How did World War II accelerate occupational therapy workforce development?
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War emergency courses in the 1940s expanded the occupational therapy workforce, while registration exams and objective testing appeared during 1945–47.
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How did the reductionist view differ from the occupational view?
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The reductionist view broke a person into component problems such as strength, ROM, sensation, cognition, symptoms, and diagnoses. The occupational view connected body functions and skills to roles, routines, tasks, meaning, environment, and participation.
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Why can a reductionist assessment be useful but incomplete?
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It can identify component problems, but it becomes incomplete when those components are separated from real-life occupations and lack practical application to occupational participation.
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How did late twentieth-century scholarship renew occupation as occupational therapy’s core?
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Gail Fidler advanced activity analysis; Mary Reilly emphasized occupational behavior and quality of life; Gary Kielhofner developed the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO); and Elizabeth Yerxa established the first doctoral program in Occupational Science.