Deck 11: Occupational Adaptation

Question 1

Who authored the Occupational Adaptation frame of reference?

A) Gary Kielhofner
B) Mary Law
C) Janette Schkade and Sally Schultz
D) Charles Christensen and Carolyn Baum

Answer 1

Janette Schkade and Sally Schultz

Question 2

The demands that a person needs to fulfill within his or her occupational environment describes what concept?

A) Occupational identity
B) Role expectation
C) Occupational forms
D) Performance capacity

Answer 2

Role expectation

Question 3

The philosophical assumption of Occupational Adaptation is that it is considered what type of process?

A) Normative
B) Congruent
C) Reciprocal
D) Self-regulatory

Answer 3

Normative

Question 4

The adaptive process refers to intervening variables between occupation and what other concept?

A) Occupational functioning
B) Occupational performance
C) Environment
D) Activity demands

Question 5

Occupational Adaption assumes that it is not the activity or occupation that is therapeutic but instead what important perspective?

A) Guided discovery
B) Role competence
C) Therapeutic use of self
D) Self-reflection

Question 6

An individual expresses his or her desire for mastery of the environment through what means?

A) Narratives
B) Role exploration
C) Learning new skills
D) Participation in occupations

Question 7

What concept enables or restricts occupational participation within the environment?

A) Performance range
B) Demands
C) Barriers and supports
D) Incongruity between skills and challenges

Question 8

Reciprocal interactions between the person and the environment describes which of the following types of mastery?

A) Desire
B) Demand
C) Push
D) Press

Question 9

What is the therapist's role in the Occupational Adaptation frame of reference?

A) Modify the activity demands
B) Elicit the adaptive response
C) Remove barriers to support performance
D) Scaffold the activity to promote autonomy

Question 10

Cognitive, sensorimotor, and psychosocial skills are collectively described as which of the following terms?

A) Person systems
B) Person factors
C) Performance skills
D) Performance capacity

Question 11

When an individual organizes person system components to determine how to competently perform and master an occupation, this is called:

A) Press for mastery
B) Desire for mastery
C) Adaptation gestalt
D) Adaptive capacity

Question 12

Social and cultural contexts are described as what term in Occupational Adaptation?

A) Occupational identify
B) Occupational environment
C) Cultural environment
D) Physical environments

Question 13

What is the product when an individual evaluates occupational challenges and utilizes the adaption gestalt to address the challenge?

A) Occupational response
B) Occupational performance
C) Adaptation
D) Press for mastery

Question 14

What term is described as the person's ability to perceive the need to change, modify, or refine a variety of responses to occupational challenges in the environment?

A) Press for mastery
B) Desire for mastery
C) Adaptation gestalt
D) Adaptive capacity

Question 15

What are the three properties that denote relative mastery?

A) Adaption gestalt, occupational response, occupational performance
B) Effective participation, efficiency, satisfaction
C) Congruence of person, environment, occupation
D) Volition, habituation, performance capacity

Question 16

What tests an individual's occupational ability to adapt during engagement in occupations?

A) Press for mastery
B) Performance breakdown
C) Adaptation capacity
D) Dynamic performance analysis

Question 17

When an individual is unable to produce adequate occupational responses due to a disability this is called:

A) Occupational dysadaptation
B) Occupational role incompetence
C) Diminished performance range
D) Occupational dysfunction

Question 18

The primary goal of therapy in the Occupational Adaptation approach is to:

A) Decrease occupational environment demands
B) Guide the client toward new role exploration
C) Maximize a client's adaptive capacity
D) Develop new skills to achieve relative mastery

Question 19

A means of determining increased adaptiveness is evaluated through a client's ability to do which of the following?

A) Develop new person system skills
B) Choose new occupations that match current abilities
C) Complete a task in its entirety
D) Generalize adaptive responses across different contexts