Hello Lori: If you are addressing your question to me, let me address it.
I don't expect all or any OT to choose only one practice model. In my day to day treatments, I do many types of treatment including strengthening, endurance, balance, enabling, occupation, adaptation, etc. I use any available model to get the job done. Having just said this, I will now drop back and punt to my old standby. That being that my job is to promote occupational independence in my clients. The concept of activity analysis has been around for quite some time. I don't ever use it in the traditional sense but I do us a modified version. You can think of it as occupational analysis. When a client identifies an occupational deficit. I analyze the deficit to better understand what are contributing factors. I then determine which if any of these factors can be changed and then go about trying to change the ones that I feel I can treat in a reasonable amount of time. If my analysis is correct and the patient is responding positively to treatment, then + changes should occur in either the client's performance and/or satisfaction with their occupation. If their occupation is getting better than I need to punt to another plan of attack. Another issue that I want to broach is the one of theory versus practice. MUCH of what I discuss on this list is about theory. In other words it's about the WHY of what we do, not the HOW of what we do. I can be very tricky to separate the differences between the WHY and HOW. But, I believe that one of the biggest bridges our profession must cross is the bridge of WHY we do what we do! Until we as a profession can talk the talk, I don't see how we can walk the walk!!! Ron ======================================================= On Monday, February 16, 2004, @ 6:52 PM, you wrote: Fac> I agree with Joe. In school, we were taught activity analysis, so we are Fac> trained at breaking tasks into components. Then, we were taught how to address Fac> each component in order to get someone back to doing the task that they need or Fac> want to do. Fac> We also learned different theories and practice models of OT and were taught Fac> that none of them were wrong. I learned that we as a therapist would choose Fac> which practice model would worked for us depending on the setting that we ended Fac> up working in(for example-hand therapy clinic, inpatient rehab, home care, Fac> school system). So, I guess I do know why you expect all OTs to choose only one Fac> practice model when we were trained in so many and we have so many different Fac> settings. Fac> Lori Fac> _______________________________________________ Fac> To unsubscribe, visit: Fac> http://otnow.com/mailman/listinfo/otlist_otnow.com Fac> The OTnow Mail Archive: Fac> www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fac> =============================================== _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, visit: http://otnow.com/mailman/listinfo/otlist_otnow.com The OTnow Mail Archive: www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===============================================
