INTRO TO OT EXAM 1 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS.
What is OT? - ANS -activities that provide purpose and meaning to an individuals life
Paradigm - ANS -assumptions and perspectives
-define purpose in nature of a field
-attached to science and information available in the time
-change constantly as time changes
Context - ANS -influences your personal performance
-social (people around you)
-virtual
-temporal (time)
-cultural
-spiritual
-physical
Interprofession Education - ANS -learning how to communicate effectively and efficiently
with co workers as a team
-est. trust and goals, the expansion of knowledge and collaboration
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, (History of OT )
1900-1919 - ANS -optimisim to innovate and produce (ideas and products) that people can
build off of
-progressive era (reforms in education and mental health)
**this is important for OT because of the moral treatment**
-19th amendment: women's right to vote (able to voice opinions, important for OT)
Reconstruction Aides - ANS -are volunteer workers that were recruited to help care for
wounded soldiers in WWI using physical agents and curative occupations
-this is what OT was first called
Clifford Beers - ANS -reforms in mental health "activity has a purpose"
George Barton - ANS -first President and founder of AOTA
-architect, cured self through carpentry (occupation)
woodworking and gardening
-organized first national OT organization and became its first President
Eleanor Clarke Slagle - ANS -the "mother of occupational therapy"
-founded the first school, est the first OT educational standards
-at Johns Hopkins, developed her own OT technique of "habit training" and established it at
several hospitals
-AOTA president from 1919-1920 and many years as secretary and treasurer
-est educational standards for OT education programs and worked with AMA to develop
guidelines and a national registry of qualified practitiontioners
-in 1955 AOTA created an annual lectureship in memory of Eleanor Clarke Slalge
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS.
What is OT? - ANS -activities that provide purpose and meaning to an individuals life
Paradigm - ANS -assumptions and perspectives
-define purpose in nature of a field
-attached to science and information available in the time
-change constantly as time changes
Context - ANS -influences your personal performance
-social (people around you)
-virtual
-temporal (time)
-cultural
-spiritual
-physical
Interprofession Education - ANS -learning how to communicate effectively and efficiently
with co workers as a team
-est. trust and goals, the expansion of knowledge and collaboration
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, (History of OT )
1900-1919 - ANS -optimisim to innovate and produce (ideas and products) that people can
build off of
-progressive era (reforms in education and mental health)
**this is important for OT because of the moral treatment**
-19th amendment: women's right to vote (able to voice opinions, important for OT)
Reconstruction Aides - ANS -are volunteer workers that were recruited to help care for
wounded soldiers in WWI using physical agents and curative occupations
-this is what OT was first called
Clifford Beers - ANS -reforms in mental health "activity has a purpose"
George Barton - ANS -first President and founder of AOTA
-architect, cured self through carpentry (occupation)
woodworking and gardening
-organized first national OT organization and became its first President
Eleanor Clarke Slagle - ANS -the "mother of occupational therapy"
-founded the first school, est the first OT educational standards
-at Johns Hopkins, developed her own OT technique of "habit training" and established it at
several hospitals
-AOTA president from 1919-1920 and many years as secretary and treasurer
-est educational standards for OT education programs and worked with AMA to develop
guidelines and a national registry of qualified practitiontioners
-in 1955 AOTA created an annual lectureship in memory of Eleanor Clarke Slalge
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
