OCTH 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Occupational Therapy

• School: Towson University
• Department: Occupational Therapy
• Course: OCTH 600
• Professor: heatwole- shank

Document Summary

When assessing individual performance, will typically involve attention to: client factors-strengths and impairments, performance skills-strengths and difficulties, performance context. Occupational engagement: humans as occupational beings & occupation through the lifespan. Occupational therapy practice: ot process, otpf, aa, adaption and grading, prof. /clinical reasoning. Professional reasoning is the process that practitioners use to plan, direct, perform and reflect on client care . How therapists actually think when engaging in practice. Reflecting on what ot"s actually do as they engage with a client. Thinking with your mind-: observations, theoretical knowledge, knowledge from school or ce"s, it"s your brain. Embodied process: recognizing that your mind includes your whole body. Knowledge comes from: touching, seeing, smelling, hearing -, ways you know , being physically present to know how your client is feeling, walk through the classroom to read body language about when to take a break.