OT 5101 week2 theory policy

1. Sheryl Ryan, PhD, OTR/L

2. Week 2

3. Chapter 3
 Able to use theory in community-
based practice
 Know new vocabulary
 Describe strategies for organizing
communities to meet health needs
 Describe the general characteristics
and principles of theories from
related disciplines that could be used
in community-based practice
Chapter 4
 Understanding of federal legislation
pertinent to community-based
practice
 Become familiar with legislation
supporting reimbursement for services
 Identify specific legislation that
focuses on issues related to each of
the following categories: education
and development, medical
rehabilitation, consumer rights, and
environmental issues.
 Understand potential methods of
influencing federal and state policy
for community practice.

4. Speakers: Joyce Arnston and
Greg Brashears from Life
College
Course vocabulary
Theoretical framework small
group scenarios
OT Practice activity
Legislation and policy small
group scenarios

5. Life College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
d2NGsPv6TLY

6. Chapter 3
 Community assets
 Community organization
 Conceptual model of practice
 Construct
 Human agency
 Model
 Outcome expectations
 Paradigm
 Reciprocal determinism
 Self-efficacy
Chapter 4
 Americans with Disabilities Act 1990
 Civil rights referenced legislation
 Consumer referenced legislation
 Educational and developmental referenced
legislation
 Environment referenced legislation
 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(IDEA)
 Medical rehabilitation referenced legislation
 Protection and care referenced legislation
 Social Security Act of 1935
 Technology Related Assistance Act of 1988

7. Chapter 3

8. Conceptual Model
of Practice
Paradigm
Theory
Model
Principle
Construct
Concept

9. Theories Related to Community-Based
Practice
 Community Organization Approach
Public Health Models and Theories
 Social Cognitive Theory
 Health Belief Model
 Transtheoretical Model of Health
Behavior Change
 PRECEDE-PROCEED Planning Model
 Diffusion of Innovations Model

10.  Model of Human Occupation
 Ecology of Human Performance
 Person-Environment-Occupation

11. Case Scenario (page 48)

12. The link is in Edverum
http://libraryguides.ccbcmd.edu/ot

13. Chapter 4

14. AOTA and
Advocacy
Not Awesome:
Ranting your political
views to your clients
Awesome:
Knowing, using, and
advocating for legislation
that supports OT and
community based
practice!https://www.aota.org/Advocacy-Policy.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeJ55o3El0

15.  1. Protection and care referenced legislation
 2. Educational and developmental legislation for persons with disabilities
 3. Funding and reimbursement for rehabilitation programs legislation
 4. Civil rights referenced legislation
 5. Environment referenced legislation
 6. Consumer referenced legislation
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I_Voted_St
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16.  Chapter 4, pg. 52, Box 4-1
 Find your group’s category and look
up the various acts/initiatives
listed
 Using the scenario on the right,
identify and describe how the laws
in your group’s assigned category
might support OT-related services
for the family.
 A homeless family is admitted to a
supported long term housing facility.
The family consists of a man and
woman, their school-age son, and her
elderly father. The man works as a
day laborer. The woman has a history
of substance abuse and mental
illness. Their young son is far behind
academically. Her elderly father has
macular degeneration and is
functionally blind.

17. http://www.terrainfirma.co.uk/blog/2012/06/legislation-changes-its-the-law.html

19.  Scaffa, Marjorie E, and Reitz, S. Maggie. (2014). Occupational Therapy in
Community-Based Practice Settings, 2nd Edition. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis
Company.