OT FINAL

supporting health and participation in life through engagement

collaboration between the practitioner and the client is central to the interactive nature of service delivery

• purposeful activity- goal directed behavior or activity that has therapeutic value
• funcion (Dysfunction)- individuesl preformance of the tasks, activities, and roles during their daily occupations
• Independence- state or quality of being self reliant, ability to prerform an activity by onself
• Cognitive Skills- a clients mental/ thinking ability
• Psychosocial- referring to the mind and its influence over social interaction/ conduct
• Developmental- life stages humans attain and master in order to proceed to the next stage
• Adverse enviormental condition- conditions which an individual is physically placed that dictate their ability or disability to function in meaningful activity- poverty
• Occupation- Daily activities that provide structure to living/meaning to individuals and meet human needs

• “Occupational
• Therapy is the art and science of helping people to do the day-to-day
• activities that are important and meaningful to their health and well being
• through the engagement in valued occupations"

Addressing the activities people engage in to OCCUPY their time, construct identity through doing and providing meaning.

• follow a code of ethics

work in a defined scope of practice

• contribute toward developing their
• profession