OTA 220 - Therapeutic Activities 2

1. Use sound judgment in regards to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice.
2. Express support for the quality of life, well-being, and occupation of the individual, group or population to promote physical and mental health and prevention of injury and disease considering the context (e.g., cultural, personal, temporal, virtual and environment).
3. Gather and share data for the purpose of screening and evaluation using methods including but not limited to, specified screening tools; assessments; skilled observations; occupational histories; consultations with other professionals; and interviews with the client, family and significant others.
4. Administer selected assessments using appropriate procedures and protocols (including standardized formats) and use occupation for the purpose of assessment.
5. Select and provide direct occupational therapy interventions and procedures to enhance safety health and wellness, and performance in ADLs, IADLS, education, work, play , rest, sleep, leisure and social participation.
6. Provide therapeutic use of occupation, exercises, and activities(e.g., occupation-based intervention, purposeful activity, preparatory methods).
7. Implement group interventions based on principles of group development and group dynamics across the lifespan.
8. Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
9. Implement intervention strategies to remediate and/or compensate for cognitive deficits that affect occupational performance.
10. Promote the use of appropriate home and community programming to support performance in client’s natural environment and participation in all contexts relevant to the client.
11. Demonstrate an understanding of health literacy and ability to educate and train the client, caregiver, and family and significant others to facilitate skills in areas of occupation as well as prevention, health maintenance, health promotion and safety.
12. Effectively interact through written, oral and nonverbal communication with the client, family, significant others, colleagues and other health providers and the public in a professionally acceptable manner.
13. Effectively communicate and work inter-professionally with those who provide services to individuals and groups in order to clarify each member’s responsibilities in executing an intervention plan.
14. Grade and adapt the environment, tools, materials, occupations, and interventions to reflect the changing needs of the client and the sociocultural context.
15. Demonstrate skills of collaboration with occupational therapists and other professionals on therapeutic interventions.
16. Understand when and how to use the consultative process with specific consumers or consumer groups as directed by an occupational therapist.
17. Describe the role of the occupational therapy assistant in care coordination, case management and transition services in traditional and emerging practice environments.
18. Under the direction of an administrator, manager, or occupational therapist, collect, organize, and report on data for evaluation of client outcomes.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
4. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.