USAHS DOMAIN FINAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Tertiary Prevention - Answers - Aimed at rehab to prevent further decline, or reduce
secondary disability for those with a disability
Secondary Prevention - Answers - identifying and intervening for populations at risk
Primary Prevention - Answers - Efforts to encourage vaccinations, workplace
ergonomics, and backpack awareness
OT Encounter level - Answers - Client and OT practioner
Microsystem Level - Answers - agencies; culture and practices relating to resources,
teamwork, policy, documentation, etc
Mesosystem Level - Answers - Culture, resources, structures at local, village, county,
district, state level. (laws)
Macrosystem Level - Answers - Exert broad influence; professional associates and
sociopolitical context of nation
Evidence Based Practice - Answers - being able to integrate research evidence and
client preferences into professional reasoning process to explain why behind
intervention and predict probable outcomes
1700s-1800s - Answers - Founding of welfare organizations
Concept of Moral Treatment by Philippe Pinel & William Tuke
Early 1900s - Answers - Industrial Revolution
Arts & Crafts Movement by Ruskin and Morris
Those with handicaps can still be productive members of society
AOTA Establishment - Answers - Founded in 1917
Original Name National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy
WWI - 1930s - Answers - Standards set for OT education/training
Name changed to AOTA
Reconstruction aides to rehab soldiers using arts and crafts
WWII & Post WWII - Answers - Rehabilitation Movement: rapid increase in VA
hospitals, new treatments were keeping people alive and living with disabilities
AOTF Began
Shift from arts and crafts to modalities; scientific and medical approach
Development of OTA
,1970s - 1980s - Answers - Push to Return to Occupation by Gary Kielhofner - MOHO
Development of state licensure requirements
1990s - Now - Answers - Information Age: increase of people over 65, people living
with disabilities, decrease ability for individuals to afford healthcare
Requirements by state to continue education to maintain license
Development of Masters requirement (soon to be doctorate)
Focus on occupation-based, evidence-based treatment
Ontology - Answers - What is the most real?
Science/study of being; branch of metaphysics concerned with nature or essence of
being or existence
Epistemology - Answers - What is knowledge?
Theory of knowledge
Axiology - Answers - What are the right actions?
Study of values including what is good, beautiful, morally desirable
Philosophy - Answers - Conscious framework of assumptions and beliefs that guide
actions
Philosophical mode of thinking - Answers - Thinking with clear sense of ultimate
foundation's of one's thinking
Methodology - Answers - General Approach to practice
Altruism Value - Answers - Being concerned for welfare of others; selfless concern
Equality Value - Answers - Treating each person impartially and free of bias
Freedom Value - Answers - Personal choice in values and desires of a client
Justice Value - Answers - State in which diverse communities are inclusive and
flourish
Dignity Value - Answers - Treating client with respect in all situations
Truth Value - Answers - Providing accurate information in all forms of communication
Prudence Value - Answers - Using clinical and ethical reasoning to make professional
decision
Beneficence Principle - Answers - Helping others, kindness, preventing harm
Nonmalificence Principle - Answers - Abstaining from harm; not imposing risks of harm
, Autonomy Principle - Answers - Principle of self-determination; ability to act freely and
make one's own choices
Justice Principle - Answers - fair, equitable treatment; impartial consideration of rules;
objectivity
Veracity Principle - Answers - Comprehensive, accurate and objective information;
truthfulness and honesty
Fidelity Principle - Answers - Keeping a commitment; treating clients with respect,
fairness, and integrity
Professional integrity, responsibility, and accountablity - Answers - Comply with AOTA
principles, laws and regulations relevant to OT and employer policies and procedures
Therapeutic relationships - Answers - To promote occupational well-being regardless
of any personal characteristics
Documentation, reimbursement, and financial matters - Answers - maintain complete,
accurate, and timely records of all client encounters
Service Delivery - Answers - Strive to deliver quality services that are occupation
based, client-centered, safe, interactive, culturally sensitive, evidence-based, consistent
with OTs values and philosophies
Professional competence, education, supervision, and training - Answers - Maintain
credentials, degrees, licenses, certifications to show commitment to develop and
maintain competent, EBP
Communication - Answers - Written, verbal, electronic, or virtual. Uphold high
standards of confidentiality, informed consent, autonomy, accuracy, timeliness, and
record management
Professional Civility - Answers - Conduct self in civil manner during all disclosure
Honoring one's personal values while also listening to disparate points of view
American Occupation Therapy Association (AOTA) - Answers - National professional
association for OT in U.S. founded in 1917 to represent the interests and concerns of
the OT profession
Accreditation council for occupational therapy education (ACOTE) - Answers -
Subsidiary of AOTA, ACOTE recognized by U.S. department of education as the
accrediting agency for all OT higher education programs (OTR & OTA) in U.S.
Tertiary Prevention - Answers - Aimed at rehab to prevent further decline, or reduce
secondary disability for those with a disability
Secondary Prevention - Answers - identifying and intervening for populations at risk
Primary Prevention - Answers - Efforts to encourage vaccinations, workplace
ergonomics, and backpack awareness
OT Encounter level - Answers - Client and OT practioner
Microsystem Level - Answers - agencies; culture and practices relating to resources,
teamwork, policy, documentation, etc
Mesosystem Level - Answers - Culture, resources, structures at local, village, county,
district, state level. (laws)
Macrosystem Level - Answers - Exert broad influence; professional associates and
sociopolitical context of nation
Evidence Based Practice - Answers - being able to integrate research evidence and
client preferences into professional reasoning process to explain why behind
intervention and predict probable outcomes
1700s-1800s - Answers - Founding of welfare organizations
Concept of Moral Treatment by Philippe Pinel & William Tuke
Early 1900s - Answers - Industrial Revolution
Arts & Crafts Movement by Ruskin and Morris
Those with handicaps can still be productive members of society
AOTA Establishment - Answers - Founded in 1917
Original Name National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy
WWI - 1930s - Answers - Standards set for OT education/training
Name changed to AOTA
Reconstruction aides to rehab soldiers using arts and crafts
WWII & Post WWII - Answers - Rehabilitation Movement: rapid increase in VA
hospitals, new treatments were keeping people alive and living with disabilities
AOTF Began
Shift from arts and crafts to modalities; scientific and medical approach
Development of OTA
,1970s - 1980s - Answers - Push to Return to Occupation by Gary Kielhofner - MOHO
Development of state licensure requirements
1990s - Now - Answers - Information Age: increase of people over 65, people living
with disabilities, decrease ability for individuals to afford healthcare
Requirements by state to continue education to maintain license
Development of Masters requirement (soon to be doctorate)
Focus on occupation-based, evidence-based treatment
Ontology - Answers - What is the most real?
Science/study of being; branch of metaphysics concerned with nature or essence of
being or existence
Epistemology - Answers - What is knowledge?
Theory of knowledge
Axiology - Answers - What are the right actions?
Study of values including what is good, beautiful, morally desirable
Philosophy - Answers - Conscious framework of assumptions and beliefs that guide
actions
Philosophical mode of thinking - Answers - Thinking with clear sense of ultimate
foundation's of one's thinking
Methodology - Answers - General Approach to practice
Altruism Value - Answers - Being concerned for welfare of others; selfless concern
Equality Value - Answers - Treating each person impartially and free of bias
Freedom Value - Answers - Personal choice in values and desires of a client
Justice Value - Answers - State in which diverse communities are inclusive and
flourish
Dignity Value - Answers - Treating client with respect in all situations
Truth Value - Answers - Providing accurate information in all forms of communication
Prudence Value - Answers - Using clinical and ethical reasoning to make professional
decision
Beneficence Principle - Answers - Helping others, kindness, preventing harm
Nonmalificence Principle - Answers - Abstaining from harm; not imposing risks of harm
, Autonomy Principle - Answers - Principle of self-determination; ability to act freely and
make one's own choices
Justice Principle - Answers - fair, equitable treatment; impartial consideration of rules;
objectivity
Veracity Principle - Answers - Comprehensive, accurate and objective information;
truthfulness and honesty
Fidelity Principle - Answers - Keeping a commitment; treating clients with respect,
fairness, and integrity
Professional integrity, responsibility, and accountablity - Answers - Comply with AOTA
principles, laws and regulations relevant to OT and employer policies and procedures
Therapeutic relationships - Answers - To promote occupational well-being regardless
of any personal characteristics
Documentation, reimbursement, and financial matters - Answers - maintain complete,
accurate, and timely records of all client encounters
Service Delivery - Answers - Strive to deliver quality services that are occupation
based, client-centered, safe, interactive, culturally sensitive, evidence-based, consistent
with OTs values and philosophies
Professional competence, education, supervision, and training - Answers - Maintain
credentials, degrees, licenses, certifications to show commitment to develop and
maintain competent, EBP
Communication - Answers - Written, verbal, electronic, or virtual. Uphold high
standards of confidentiality, informed consent, autonomy, accuracy, timeliness, and
record management
Professional Civility - Answers - Conduct self in civil manner during all disclosure
Honoring one's personal values while also listening to disparate points of view
American Occupation Therapy Association (AOTA) - Answers - National professional
association for OT in U.S. founded in 1917 to represent the interests and concerns of
the OT profession
Accreditation council for occupational therapy education (ACOTE) - Answers -
Subsidiary of AOTA, ACOTE recognized by U.S. department of education as the
accrediting agency for all OT higher education programs (OTR & OTA) in U.S.
