The five types of intervention in Occupational Therapy.

There are five different ways to give intervention in Occupational Therapy, aka OT:

1)   Create and Promote: This is when an OT practitioner creates a workshop or promotes healthy living that benefits all people!

2)  Maintain: The occupational therapists use this form of intervention to maintain client’s ability to do their occupations. For example, the occupational therapists may give grab bars to their clients, so the grab bars can prevent the client from having another fall, and thus maintain their ability to live alone.

 

3)  Establish/Restore: OT practitioners work with the clients to develop or to restore their skills that they need for their occupations. For example, pediatric occupational therapists may teach their kiddie client to hold a pencil, and the geriatric occupational therapists teach elderlies with stroke to learn how to dress again.

 

4) 

Modify:

When a client has a lack of ability to do a certain activity, the occupational therapists may change the activity or the environment to promote client’s functioning. For example...

if a kid is writing very lightly that his/her handwriting is barely visible, an occupational therapist would give the kid a pencil weight. So it is like writing with bar bells!

 

5)  Prevention:

This is an intervention when an occupational therapists are trying to avoid or even slow down a chronic diseases. For example, if a particular village children have an extremely high chance to get tooth decay, the therapist can go over there to teach them how to brush their teeth and eat appropriate food.

 

A.L

Reference:

I learn all of these information from

O’ Brien J.C & Hussey S.M (2012) Introduction to Occupational Therapy, Washington: Elsevier

Photo Credits:

Abby. (2011, December 12). : Why do we use weighted pencils in therapy?. Retrieved May 3, 2014, from http://abbypediatricot.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-do-we-use-weighted-pencils-in.html

Installing Grab Bars and Shower Bars. (2012, January 1). The Handicapped Bathroom. Retrieved May 3, 2014, from http://www.handicappedbathroom.org/grab-bars