OTPF

The OTPF is the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework. It is important for us, as occupational therapy students, to learn about because it lays out a foundation for us as practitioners. It has our basic concepts and beliefs as a field. The OTPF is a big overview of occupational therapy and how we go about treating and helping our clients in everyday practice.

Knowledge Check 2/19/19

One specific role I have is as a pet owner. An occupation that I have of this role is a dog walker. Being a dog walker has many activities, but one specific activity is that we walk 3-6 miles at a time. So, an activity of being a dog walker, in my circumstance, is long-distance walking. A task of this activity is getting the leash and collar on my dog and also preventing him from pulling on the leash by verbal and physical commands.

OT Staying True

Occupational therapy has evolved and came a long way since it first began. New ideas and approaches have been used and integrated. Important occupations to clients have changed from what they were a hundred years ago. Something that hasn't change, however, is how occupational therapists have centered their practice around the client and the client's needs and desires. From the beginning, occupational therapists have been more holistic than most medical professions. One hundred years later and that is still the case.