Peds Models & FOR Flashcards
What is Pediatric Practice
Includes occupational therapy with infants, toddlers, children, and youth
Primary Philosophies of Pediatric Practice
Child- and family-centered care
Strengths focus
Cultural competence
Three primary core beliefs of Child- and Family-Centered Practice
Respect for children and families
Appreciation of the family’s impact on the child’s well-being
Family-professional collaboration
Cultural Competence
Critical in this diverse country where practice WILL include provision of services to cultures different than one’s own
•Cultural diversity in the United States
A Culturally Competent Therapist:
Demonstrates an interest in understanding the family’s culture
•Accepts and embraces diversity
•Participates in traditions or cultural patterns of the family
•Inquires about family routines, cultural practices, traditions, and priorities
•Integrates intervention recommendations into the family’s cultural practices
Influence of cultural practices
Development of occupations and skill development
Choices of occupation
Choices regarding level of independence at specific ages
The OT Process in Pediatric
Much the same as with adults and the elderly
•Referral
•Evaluation
•Occupational profile
•Analysis of occupational performance
•Use of variety of methods
•Top down versus bottom up or combined
•Consideration of context
•Intervention using evidence-based approaches, with measurement of outcomes
•Use of theory to guide clinical decision making
Occupational therapists improve children’s performance and participation
by providing interventions to enhance performance
•by recommending activity adaptations and environmental modifications
•through consultation, coaching, and education
Specific Aspects of Intervention
•Establish a therapeutic relationship
•Focus on inclusion and natural environments
•Use preferred occupations, client engagement, and child-centered care
•Create the just right challenge
•Modify and adapt tasks and environments
•Use evidence-based interventions
•Advocate for and educate others
Optimize Child’s Engagement by
●Begin with the child’s interest.
●Invite the child to select and help design the activity.
●Pose a problem to be solved.
●Use meaningful whole tasks rather than repetition of single step tasks.
Indirect services
➢Consultation
➢Coaching
➢Support others in creating their own solutions
➢Requires good communication and collaboration
Education and advocacy
➢On behalf of specific children with disabilities
•OR
➢Vying for system change on behalf of all children
➢Often interprofessional
Types of service delivery
Direct
Indirect
Telehealth
Foundational Theories Used in Occupational Therapy
●Developmental theories
●Learning and system theories
Developmental Theories
• Adaptation: The child’s ability to adjust to change to fit into the environment
• Schema: How children represent objects, events, and relationships
• Assimilation: Incorporating new knowledge into existing cognitive structures
• Accommodation: New learning, adapting cognitive structure to new information
Vygotsky and the Zone of Proximal Development
➢ Cognitive processing is a social process.
➢ Learning is critically dependent on social interaction
Zone of proximal development:
The distance between the child’s actual developmental level when acting independently and the level of potential development when supported by an adult.
Scaffolding
The process by which therapists support or guide a child’s actions to improve competence.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Basic Needs
• Physiological needs
• Need for safety
• Need for love and belonging
• Need for a sense of self-esteem
• Need for self-actualization
Behavioral theories
•Instrumental or operant learning
•Applied behavioral interventions
•Shaping
•Incidental teaching
•Pivotal response
Social Cognitive Theories
➢Children can learn by observing the behavior of others.
➢Children determine their own learning by seeking certain experiences.
➢Children learn indirectly by observing how their peers’ behaviors are rewarded or punished.
➢Children learn social skills through group experiences.
Self-Efficacy
The influence of motivation and self-efficacy on learning.
●Self-efficacy beliefs determine
➢the goals that people set for themselves.
➢how much effort they expend.
➢how long they persevere in the face of difficulties.
➢how they respond to failure.
Dynamic Systems Theory
➢Performance depends on
•interactions of the child’s inherent and emerging skills.
•characteristics of the desired tasks or activity.
•the environment.
➢Self-organization is optimal if the task has a goal and outcome.