Week 4 - Intervention Planning Flashcards
1
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ADL performance difficulties arise from:
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- Changes in a person’s functional capacities as a result of ageing , injury, impairment
- Variations in occupational demands or the way activities are undertaken
- Barriers or challenges presented by the environment
2
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Intervention focus
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- Person
- Occupation
- Environment
3
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Intervention focus: Person
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- Skill development, preparatory methods & purposeful activity
4
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Intervention focus: Occupation
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- Grading, adapting task
- Use of assistive devices
5
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Intervention focus: Environment
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- Structure and modify physical and social environment
6
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Intervention is a:
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- Preparatory method
- Purposeful activity
- Meaningful activity
7
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For the case study: a preparatory method, purposeful & meaningful activity
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- Preparatory method: exercises, implementation of a splint
- Purposeful activity: activities that work on range, endurance, strengthening (e.g. cone stocking, theraputty)
- Meaningful activity: encourage Mrs L to do the laundry as it is an occupation that is part of her role and works on range and strengthening of the upper limb (can be graded)
8
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Occupation as ‘means’
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- Occupation as a medium of change *occupational therapy intervention may involve the therapeutic use of occupation as a “means” or method of changing performance.
9
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Occupation as ‘ends’
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- Humans as occupational beings
- goal (and outcome) of occupational therapy intervention is the client’s improved engagement in meaningful occupation and patterns of engagement
10
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What is it meant by ‘grading activities’
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Changing the complexity of the activity to decrease/increase demand
11
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What is it meant by ‘adapting activities’
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Modifying or substituting techniques or objects to be used in performing the activity
12
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Grading strategies
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- Duration: more time/breaks
- Complexity: simplify the activity
- Resistance: the weight of the objects
- Reach: where the objects are placed
- Repetition: number of times action is required
13
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Adapting strategies
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- Alternative methods/strategies to complete activities
- Assistive devices to enable participation in activities
14
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What are environment-based interventions?
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- Concerned with structuring or modifying the environment to support/promote occupational performance
15
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Environmental modification approaches
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- Reorganising: restructuring the exisiting environment
- Repositioning: relocating objects
- Enhancing: improving aspects of the environment
- Adding: providing additional resources
- Removing: taking away challenges
