OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTION: DEFINITION, PROCESS, AND HISTORY

Conceptual Foundations for Practice
Historical and Social Contexts for Practice
Planning, Guiding, and Documenting Practice

ASSESSMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTION

Assessing Roles and Competence
Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Range of Motion, Strength, and Endurance
Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Motor Behavior
Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Sensation
Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Vision, Visual Perception, and Praxis
Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Cognition
Assessing Context: Personal, Social, and Cultural
Assessing Context: Home, Community, and Workplace Access

THERAPEUTIC MECHANISMS

Occupation: Philosophy and Concepts
Occupation as Therapy: Analysis, Selection, Gradation, Adaptation
Learning
Therapeutic Rapport

THERAPEUTIC TECHNOLOGIES

Upper Extremity Orthoses
Construction of Hand Splints
Wheelchair Selection
High-Technology Adaptations to Compensate for Disability
Physical Agent Modalities

TREATMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTION

Optimizing Abilities and Capacities: Range of Motion, Strength, and Endurance
Optimizing Motor Behavior Using the Occupational Therapy Task Oriented Approach
Optimizing Motor Skills Using Task-Related Training
Optimizing Motor Behavior Using the Bobath Approach
Optimizing Motor Behavior Using the Brunnstrom Movement Therapy Approach
Managing Deficit of First-Level Motor Control Capacities Using Rood and PNF Techniques
Optimizing Sensory Abilities and Capacities
Optimizing Vision, Visual Perception, and Praxis Abilities
Optimizing Cognitive Abilities
Restoring the Role of Independent Person
Restoring Competence in Mobility
Restoring Competence for Homemaker and Parent Roles
Restoring Competence for the Worker Roles
Restoring Competence in Leisure Pursuits
Optimizing Personal and Social Adaptation
Optimizing Access to Home, Community, and Work Environments
Preventing Occupational Dysfunction Secondary to Aging

TREATMENT TO PROMOTE OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTION FOR SELECTED DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES

Stroke
Traumatic Brain Injury
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Orthopaedic Conditions
Hand Impairments
Spinal Cord Injury
Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis
Burn Injuries
Amputations and Prosthetics
Cardiac and Pulmonary Diseases
Dysphagia

HIV

Oncology