CMCE

Question 1

10 of the CMCE’s enablement skills

Answer 1

Adapt
Advocate
Collaborate
Consult
Coordinate
Design/build
Educate
Engage
Specialise

Question 2

Define occupational therapy enablement

Answer 2

OTs providing effective, client-centred, occupation-based enablement that promotes health, well-being and justice

Question 3

Key features of the CMCE

Answer 3

Enabling people to choose, organise and perform occupations they find useful and meaningful to their environment

Concepts of giving power, strengthening, providing with the ability or means to do something and with the means to do or be something and making something possible

Encompasses a range of strategies, actions and intervention

Question 4

Adapt

Answer 4

Altering an occupation or the environment to make a “just right challenge” suitable to the clients needs

Question 5

Eg of adapt

Answer 5

Selecting a different environment

Home/car modification

Question 6

Advocate

Answer 6

Championing a cause to those who have the power to make change

To argue and speak in favour of change on behalf of someone

Question 7

Eg advocate

Answer 7

Policy change

Program proposals

Question 8

Coach

Answer 8

Ongoing partnership that encourages clients to participate / reflect and discover their own motivation in their desired occupations

Question 9

Eg coach

Answer 9

Encourage

Mentor

Question 10

Collaborate

Answer 10

Power sharing, working with people towards a common goal

Question 11

Eg collaborate

Answer 11

Negotiating with the client to decide upon meaningful OT goals

Question 12

Consult

Answer 12

Exchanging views, brainstorm and confer with clients/stakeholders - families, team-members, government and non-government groups.

Question 13

Eg consult

Answer 13

Case review

MDT meeting

Question 14

Coordinate

Answer 14

Involves harmonising, synthesising and combining information, people and services

Integrating skills

Question 15

Eg coordinate

Answer 15

Linking people with different resources: housing, education, health, home help, home modifications

Question 16

Design/build

Answer 16

Formulating a plan, to devise or to form a strategy

Conceive, construct, create

Question 17

Eg design/build

Answer 17

Creating a splint

Accessible buildings

Question 18

Educate

Answer 18

Learning through doing

Question 19

Eg educate

Answer 19

Student fieldwork

Teaching a client to dress one-handed

Question 20

Engage

Answer 20

Involving the client through learning through doing or participating

Engaging the client, their perspectives, choices and decisions

Question 21

Eg engage

Answer 21

Engaging the disinterested, uninvolved or disconnected

Question 22

Specialise

Answer 22

The use of specific techniques in particular situations

The composite of skills that contributes to the OT’s role as an expert in enabling occupation.

Question 23

Eg specialise

Answer 23

Ergonomics

Neurodevelopment

Question 24

Effective enablement

Answer 24

Seamless services to meet client’s goals

Question 25

Minimal enablement

Answer 25

Single issue focus

Both client and OT may underestimate the potential for enablement

Question 26

Missed enablement

Answer 26

Lack of opportunity, resources, or vision result in unnecessary losses to others in health, wellbeing and justice

Question 27

Ineffective enablement

Answer 27

Ineffective use of resources

Negative and potentially destructive (psychologically, physically, cognitively or spiritually)