Wellness Midterm USAHS – Questions/Answers
Occupational therapy ✔️Ans - enabling clients to maximize their
capacity to participate in life activities that are important and meaningful
to them, to promote overall health and wellness
OT guiding principle ✔️Ans - Understand the complex and dynamic
interactions between people, their environment, and their activities, and
how these affect health and wellness. OTs facilitate success by matching the
person's skills to activity demands
community-based practice ✔️Ans - •includes a broad range of health-
related services:
•Prevention and health promotion
•Acute and chronic medical care
•Habilitation and rehabilitation
•Direct and indirect service provision
community-level interventions ✔️Ans - attempt to modify the socio-
cultural, political, economic, and environmental context of the community
to achieve health goals. These are population based approaches.
population health ✔️Ans - the health outcomes of a group of individuals,
including the distribution of such outcomes within the group
OT as a community health advocate ✔️Ans - identify the social, physical,
emotional, medical, educational, and occupational needs of community
members for optimal functioning and advocate for services to meet those
needs
OT as a consultant ✔️Ans - interactive process of helping others solve
existing or potential problems by identifying and analyzing issues,
developing strategies to address problems and preventing future problems
from occurring
OT as a case manager ✔️Ans - coordinates the provision of services;
advises the consumer, family, or caregiver; evaluates financial resources;
and advocates for needed services
, OT as an entrepreneur ✔️Ans - individual who organizes a business
venture, manages its operations, and assume the risks associated with the
business
OT as a supervisor ✔️Ans - manage and are responsible for all activities
of their team members, set up work schedules, delegates tasks, recruits and
trains employees, and conducts performance appraisals
OT as program managers ✔️Ans - responsible for the overall design,
development, function and evaluation of a program; budgeting and staff
hiring and supervision
effective community- based therapist characteristics ✔️Ans - -sense of
positive hopefulness
-understanding of individuals in their specific personal circumstances
-creativity to envision a variety of possibilities
-ability to set aside one's cultural, personal, and professional biases and
respect individual choices rather than passing judgement
Moral Treatment ✔️Ans - 18th and 19th century. Movement instituted
by Philippe Pinel that resulted in a shift to more humane treatment of the
mentally disturbed
paradigm of occupation ✔️Ans - 1900-1940s. Focus on occupation, its
role in life and health, and its potential as a therapeutic tool.
Mechanistic Paradigm ✔️Ans - 1960s. Focusing on inner mechanisms of
disease and disability.
More aligned with medical model. Lack of occupation.
Emerging paradigm ✔️Ans - 1980-1990s. characterized by synthesis of
useful concepts from the mechanistic paradigm with contemporary
knowledge of occupation from many disciplines. Dynamic interaction
between person, environment and occupation
characteristics of community practice paradigms ✔️Ans - client-
centered
occupation-based
Occupational therapy ✔️Ans - enabling clients to maximize their
capacity to participate in life activities that are important and meaningful
to them, to promote overall health and wellness
OT guiding principle ✔️Ans - Understand the complex and dynamic
interactions between people, their environment, and their activities, and
how these affect health and wellness. OTs facilitate success by matching the
person's skills to activity demands
community-based practice ✔️Ans - •includes a broad range of health-
related services:
•Prevention and health promotion
•Acute and chronic medical care
•Habilitation and rehabilitation
•Direct and indirect service provision
community-level interventions ✔️Ans - attempt to modify the socio-
cultural, political, economic, and environmental context of the community
to achieve health goals. These are population based approaches.
population health ✔️Ans - the health outcomes of a group of individuals,
including the distribution of such outcomes within the group
OT as a community health advocate ✔️Ans - identify the social, physical,
emotional, medical, educational, and occupational needs of community
members for optimal functioning and advocate for services to meet those
needs
OT as a consultant ✔️Ans - interactive process of helping others solve
existing or potential problems by identifying and analyzing issues,
developing strategies to address problems and preventing future problems
from occurring
OT as a case manager ✔️Ans - coordinates the provision of services;
advises the consumer, family, or caregiver; evaluates financial resources;
and advocates for needed services
, OT as an entrepreneur ✔️Ans - individual who organizes a business
venture, manages its operations, and assume the risks associated with the
business
OT as a supervisor ✔️Ans - manage and are responsible for all activities
of their team members, set up work schedules, delegates tasks, recruits and
trains employees, and conducts performance appraisals
OT as program managers ✔️Ans - responsible for the overall design,
development, function and evaluation of a program; budgeting and staff
hiring and supervision
effective community- based therapist characteristics ✔️Ans - -sense of
positive hopefulness
-understanding of individuals in their specific personal circumstances
-creativity to envision a variety of possibilities
-ability to set aside one's cultural, personal, and professional biases and
respect individual choices rather than passing judgement
Moral Treatment ✔️Ans - 18th and 19th century. Movement instituted
by Philippe Pinel that resulted in a shift to more humane treatment of the
mentally disturbed
paradigm of occupation ✔️Ans - 1900-1940s. Focus on occupation, its
role in life and health, and its potential as a therapeutic tool.
Mechanistic Paradigm ✔️Ans - 1960s. Focusing on inner mechanisms of
disease and disability.
More aligned with medical model. Lack of occupation.
Emerging paradigm ✔️Ans - 1980-1990s. characterized by synthesis of
useful concepts from the mechanistic paradigm with contemporary
knowledge of occupation from many disciplines. Dynamic interaction
between person, environment and occupation
characteristics of community practice paradigms ✔️Ans - client-
centered
occupation-based
