Occupational Therapy Theory

Theory In Occupational Therapy
Theory In General Although vital in the practice of occupational therapy, theory can be a difficult concept to fully understand. In the simplest terms theory is the foundation for fully understanding certain behavior or health problems through observations and predictions. Through watching the client, the therapist can develop questions or assumptions that lead them to create a best guess as to why the client behaved or acted in a certain way. Afterwards, the therapist will create experiments with their guess to try and find evidence to support their assumptions. If their guess is supported, the therapist can then use their findings to better treat those who suffered …show more content…
The therapist will observe a patient to determine if there is anything affecting their participation in an activity, such as loud noises being distracting. The occupational therapist will then work to find evidence to prove this theory is correct. The occupational therapist will assess and observe the patient's participation in different scenarios, doing different activities, to determine whether or not there is something, such as noise, affecting their participation and quality of work during an activity. The occupational therapist will take this evidence and use it to help the patient become more productive and participate at a higher level than they had before. The occupational therapist uses the evidence they find to change and improve the intervention plan they have with this patient. The goal of the occupational therapist is to provide the best intervention plan for their patient as they can. By using theory, the occupational therapist can improve this plan in many ways to benefit the …show more content…
While the occupational therapist still observes their patient and may find something, such as a problem participating in activities when there is a lot of noise around them, they go about the rest of it in a different way. The occupational therapist will use what they find as guidelines when creating an intervention plan. Through frames of reference the occupational therapist will still find evidence, that noise affects the participation of a patient, as well as evidence from other occupational therapy practices. The occupational therapist will use this information to support the intervention plan they produce for their current patient. The occupational therapist will also use this information while creating the intervention plan to assure that the results will benefit the patient as much as