Group Interventions In Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapist use interventions to have the client work on occupations and participate on getting better (2014 pg. S43). One way practitioners implement intervention is by using occupation and activities. Occupations include daily life activities that are client-directed toward his or her goals (pg. S29). Being able to dress himself or herself independently would be an occupation intervention. Activities are parts of an occupation that develops the client’s performance skills and patterns (pg. S29). The client being able to pick out his or her clothes would be an activity intervention (pg. S29). Preparatory methods and tasks are a type of intervention that prepares the client for his or her occupation (pg. S29). A client that has
Group interventions are used to help groups settings learn and develop skills (pg. S29). Teaching a group of young school children how to play nicely is a group intervention. Education and training are used in intervention (pg. S30). The practitioner needs to educate the client on information regarding health, occupations, the client’s participation so the client can develop new habits and routines (pg. S30). The practitioner also needs to train the client on how to perform measurable skills to enable the client to reach his or her goals (pg. S30). The practitioner can educate a client by reviewing at home exercises before the client tries them. Training the client or their family on how to provide a safe environment for a shower transfer is part of the intervention. Advocacy intervention is important for the practitioner along with the client. The practitioner can advocate for local people on a community board or participate in an organization that accommodates to people’s needs (pg. S30). The client can be self-advocating by communicating with other disabled people in the community to solve a local problem they all face (pg. S30). Interventions are used to keep the client moving in the direction to reach his or her
Contexts refer to the conditions around the client that are cultural, personal, temporal, and virtual (2014, pg. S28). The cultural context is the customs, beliefs, patterns, and expectations the client is a part of (pg. S28). A church group could sing carols around town on the week of Christmas every year. A personal context includes the client’s age, gender, socioeconomic status, and education status (pg. S28). It could be a group community of elderly people who volunteer to knit blankets for the homeless shelter. Temporal context is the rhythm, duration, sequence that people go through at various stages in his or her life (pg. S28). A population temporal context would be celebrating Valentine’s Day on February 14th every year. A virtual context includes communication that occurs with an absence of physical contact or communication (pg. S28). A group context would be a group of people play his or her Xbox game together from their separate homes. Different context can be seen in many different