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Study Notes

Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF) is an official document from the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).
It summarizes interrelated concepts defining and guiding occupational therapy practice.
The framework aims to express occupational therapy's contribution to promoting individual and community health.

Created by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2001.
A classification system for health and health-related domains.
Categorizes domains from body, individual and societal perspectives.
Includes environmental factors as functioning and disability occur in context.
Provides a standard language and a conceptual basis for health and disability measurement.
Highlights that all individuals can experience health decrements (impairments) and disability.
Acknowledges disability as a universal aspect of human existence, not a characteristic of only a few.
Shifts focus from cause to impact of health conditions.
Considers social aspects of disability beyond just biological or medical dysfunction.
Enables evaluation of environmental impact on individual functioning.

Demonstrates health conditions (disorders or diseases) influences body functions and structures, impacting activity levels, which further influences participation levels.
Shows influence of environmental and personal factors on the entire process.

Occupational therapy is offered to clients.
Clients can be categorized as individuals, families, caregivers, relevant others, organizations (businesses, industries, or agencies), or populations (refuges, veterans, homeless, individuals with chronic health conditions).

The framework is split into two sections:
- OT Domain: outlines the profession's scope and areas where members possess knowledge and skills to assist clients (core values, knowledge, and skills).
- OT Process: a dynamic, occupation-based, and client-centered process for delivering occupational therapy services.

Includes occupations, contextual factors, performance skills, and client factors.

Presents occupations (ADLs, IADLs, health management, rest & sleep, education, work, play, leisure, social participation).
Displays contextual factors (environmental, personal factors).
Shows performance patterns (habits, routines, roles, rituals).
Lists performance skills (motor skills, process skills, social interaction skills).
Includes client factors (values, beliefs, spirituality, body functions, body structures).

A dynamic occupation-based and client-centered process used in the delivery of occupational therapy services.

Identifies client needs, successful and unsuccessful occupations, occupational history, values, and relevant contexts (personal and environmental), performance patterns, and factors contributing/impeding engagement in occupations.
Analyzes occupational performance by understanding occupation demands, deficits/strengths in performance skills, and contextual factors impacting performance.
Synthesizes information from the profile, identifying supports and hindrances to occupational performance, develops hypotheses about performance strengths and deficits, and creates goals in collaboration with the client.

Developing plans that include occupation-based goals, intervention approaches, and service delivery methods.
Carry out interventions like therapeutic use of occupations, education, advocacy, group interventions etc.
Monitor client responses throughout evaluation and reevaluation.

Measures are selected by their properties of validity, reliability, and sensitivity to change in performance, consistency with goals, and predictability of future outcomes.
Track progress and adjust goals/interventions using outcome measures, assessing future interventions needs.