This document discusses therapeutic skills used in occupational therapy. It defines key terms like occupation, therapy, and occupational therapy. Occupational therapy aims to enable participation in everyday activities through the use of occupation. Therapeutic skills discussed include developing therapeutic rapport, analyzing and grading activities, and using the occupational therapy process of assessment, planning, treatment and evaluation. The document outlines how therapeutic skills are applied in individual and group therapy settings.

2. THERAPEUTIC SKILLS IN
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Shamima Akter
B.Sc in OT, MRS (enrolling)
Lecturer,
Department of Occupational Therapy
Bangladesh Health Professions Institute
Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed
Chapain, Savar

3. – Instructor will say her name using an adjective started
with the first alphabet of her name
– Next participant will remember her name and also
say her own name according to previous rule.
– Continuing among all…
– Last participant will say all the name!!!
– Good luck!!!

4. OCCUPATION
Occupation is everyday life activities. It can be
defined as an activity or task with which one
occupies oneself.
According to the Canadian Association of
Occupational Therapists (cited in Radomski and
Latham, 2014), occupation is…
“Groups of activities and tasks of everyday
life, named, organized and given value and
meaning by individuals and a culture”.

5. OCCUPATION
OCCUPATIONAccording to Canadian Association of Occupational
Therapist,
“Occupations are everything people do to
occupy themselves, including looking after
themselves (self-care), enjoying life (leisure), and
contributing to the social and economic thread of
their communities (productivity)”.
(CAOT, 1997, pp. 31 & 181)

6. THERAPY
It can be defined as any form of treatment for
any illness or disorder.
For example,
Antacid is a form of therapy for heartburn,
Rehabilitation is a form of therapy for drug
addiction,
Exercise is a form of therapy for obesity and
Occupational therapy is a form of therapy for
stroke patient.

7. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
“Occupational therapy is a client-centred health
profession concerned with promoting health and
well being through occupation.
The primary goal of occupational therapy is to
enable people to participate in the activities of
everyday life.
Occupational therapists achieve this outcome by
working with people and communities to enhance
their ability to engage in the occupations they want
to, need to, or are expected to do, or by modifying
the occupation or the environment to better
support their occupational engagement”.
(WFOT 2012)

8. A VIDEO ON OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

9. Occupational Therapy is practiced in-
A wide range of public, private and voluntary sector
settings, such as,
• the person’s home environment;
• schools;
• Workplaces;
• Health centers;
• Supported accommodation;
• Housing for seniors
• Rehabilitation centers;
• Hospitals; and
• Forensic services

10. • Therapeutic: Therapeutic refers to healing,
such as a medicine or therapy that has healing
or curative capability for treatment of disease
or disability.
• For example: therapeutic effect of yoga,
therapeutic effect of exercise & therapeutic effect
of sensory integration therapy

11. • Skill: The ability, coming from one's
knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do
something well.
• Competent in doing (Merriam-Webster Online, 2011,
cited in Radomski and Latham, 2014, 7th ed., p19).
• For example: grooming skill, writing skill

12. THERAPEUTIC SKILLS
This presents the use of self and the use of
occupation as therapeutic mediums to use in
assessment and therapy session with effective
therapeutic reasoning.
For example: Activity analysis skill, rapport building
skills, assessment skills and treatment skills

13. IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING THERAPEUTIC SKILLS
• This subject presents the use of self and the use of
activity as therapeutic mediums.
• It also presents and discusses skills in analyzing,
adapting and grading activities to use in assessment
and therapy session.
• It also presents awareness of activity demands,
contexts and safe implementation of tasks by
activity analysis.
• It also represents individual and group treatment
session with effective therapeutic reasoning.

14. Individual Therapy

15. Group Therapy

16. THE LEGITIMATE TOOLS OF THERAPEUTIC SKILLS
• Therapeutic use of self
- Therapeutic relationship/ Therapeutic rapport/Rapport building
through using unconditional acceptance, empathy, genuineness, attending
and listening, open-ended question and silence .
• Occupational therapy treatment process
- Assessment, planning, treatment implementation and evaluation
guidelines according to theoretical framework
• Occupational therapy treatment continuum
- Different stages of treatment (Adjunctive method, Enabling activities,
Purposeful activity and Occupational performance & occupational roles)
• Therapeutic use of activity
- Analysis, grading and adaptation of activity with an intention to use in
occupational therapy treatment process

17. Therapeutic Use of Self

18. Occupational therapy treatment process

19. Treatment Continuum

20. Therapeutic Use of Activity

21. Grading of Activity

22. Adapting Activity

23. REFERENCE
• Trombly CA 1996, Occupational Therapy for
Physical Dysfunction, 5th ed, Mosby Company,
Philadelphia
• Radomski and Trombly-Latham 2008,
Occupational Therapy for Physical
Dysfunction (6th Ed). Philadelphia: Lippincott,
Williams and Wilkins.
• Radomski and Trombly-Latham 2014,
Occupational Therapy for Physical
Dysfunction (7th Ed). Philadelphia: Lippincott,
Williams and Wilkins.