Foundations of Occupation Centered Practice

The OTPF contains all things occupational therapy.  Each day we see some sort of snippet from the OTPF in each one of our courses which shows us how it contains so much pertaining to what you need to know about occupational therapy.  If we have any questions regarding what occupations are or the process we should use in evaluating the patterns or skills in one's performance for example, we know we can find all of these things plus more in the OTPF.  To give a little taste of what we've seen in the OTPF so far, I decided to list some examples from our courses we're currently enrolled in.  In our Foundations of Occupation Centered Practice course, we have used the OTPF to evaluate the domains and process of OT as well as client factors.  In Evidence Based Practice, we have used the OTPF every single day in class for, just to name a few, forms of evidence and outcome measures.  In our Leadership of OT course, we have used the OTPF when discussing the vision of OT and elements

One thing I was really interested in was how much occupations involving play/leisure have changed in just 70 years as technology and culture progressed.   From what I gathered from a collection of all of the groups is that the war had a lot to do with such change in society.  In the 50s, leisurely time consisted of being outside or outings with friends with the people of that era having the first skateboard and dancing to the Jive.  With the release of television, Nintendo, Gameboy, and the internet (just to name a few) the 2010s group had a great representation of how much more time people were spending inside and/or in less active ways with a graph that showed the plethora of screen time and little to no exercise.  OTs can play a vital role in helping people come up with more creative ways to spend their time!

In a sense I feel I am addressing both blog entry options in that I was unaware of OT practice in the field of ophthalmology and I also find it to be the most interesting specialty certification.  My initial interest arose from my own multiple struggles with vision since I was about seven years old.  I feel as if there's a deeper passion in your day to day work when you have some personal connection or empathy in what exactly you are doing.  Hence, once of the reasons I chose occupational therapy since empathy is one of our key foundations! Reading about SCLV on the AOTA website is the first knowledge I have of what low vision actually is.  When first thinking of low vision, I thought it was likely to be for those who commonly struggled to see without visual aids or surgery.  From the AOTA website I learned it is actually far more complex and defined as a condition limiting a person from performing everyday activities and the vision cannot be corrected by lenses, medical interventi