Deck 9: The Ecological Model of Occupation

Question 1

Which intervention is aimed at making changes in the person?

A) Establish/restore
B) Adapt/modify
C) Alter
D) Prevent

Answer 1

Establish/restore

Question 2

What is different about Ecology of Human Performance in comparison with other popular occupational therapy models?

A) Interventions that focus on the person
B) Focus on occupation as a major construct
C) Terminology that supports interprofessional collaboration
D) An emphasis on performance as the end product

Answer 2

Terminology that supports interprofessional collaboration

Question 3

The Ecological Model in occupational therapy was developed by which individual(s)?

A) Charles Christensen and Carolyn Baum
B) Gary Kielhofner
C) Helen Polatajko
D) Winnie Dunn

Answer 3

Winnie Dunn

Question 4

The most critical feature of the Ecological Model of Occupation is the ___________.

A) Focus on disability
B) Acknowledgment of the impact of context on performance
C) Ability to restore functional performance
D) Meaningful occupations chosen by the client

Question 5

The Ecological Model of Occupation differs from other models by including what component in its framework?

A) Standardized assessments
B) Intervention approaches
C) Outcome measurement tools
D) Occupational profile questionnaire

Question 6

The Ecological Model of Occupation seeks to provide a framework that emphasizes which concepts?

A) Transactions between person, environment, and occupation
B) The role of context and its dynamic interaction with person and task
C) Use of guided discovery to enable skill acquisition
D) Person factors and environment and their impact on occupational performance

Question 7

An objective set of observable behaviors that allows an individual to accomplish a goal is considered what in this model?

A) Occupational form
B) Role
C) Activity
D) Task

Question 8

The interrelated conditions that surround the person is considered to be what concept in this model?

A) Occupations
B) Environment
C) Context
D) Person-factors

Question 9

Which type of context looks at the aspects of chronological/developmental age, life cycle, and health status?

A) Temporal
B) Physical
C) Social
D) Cultural

Question 10

The Ecology of Human Performance framework theorizes that the transactions between the person and the context affects which of the following?

A) Human behavior and performance
B) Occupational identify
C) Role competence
D) Performance capacity

Question 11

The number and variety of tasks available to an individual dependent on the dynamics of the person factors and context barriers and supports is considered what type of performance?

A) Capacity
B) Outcome
C) Opportunity
D) Range

Question 12

When a therapist changes the task so that a client can complete it more effectively, according to the Ecological Model, the therapist is using what type of intervention?

A) Establish/restore
B) Adapt/modify
C) Alter
D) Prevent

Question 13

The goal of each intervention is supporting performance of an individual in what capacity?

A) Where deficits exist
B) Identified areas of need and interest
C) Where the largest environmental barrier exists
D) Where the physician identifies an issue

Question 14

An important consideration of the alter approach is that the context is which of the following?

A) Variable
B) Unchanged
C) Modifiable
D) Client-centered

Question 15

When a therapist uses the Ecological Model of Occupation to guide intervention to reduce the chance of a negative outcome with a client, he or she is using the _______ approach.

A) Modify/adapt
B) Alter
C) Prevent
D) Create

Question 16

Facilitating optimal conditions for performance for all persons and populations is an example of which type of intervention in the Ecology of Human Performance Model?

A) Establish/restore
B) Adapt/modify
C) Prevent
D) Create

Question 17

In the assumptions of the Ecology of Human Performance, individuals and their contexts are identified as what?

A) Individual and static
B) Unique and dynamic
C) Not an important consideration in the therapeutic process
D) Needing to be modified to support participation

Question 18

Occupational therapy services delivered in the client's home is an example of what type of context?

A) Social
B) Natural
C) Physical
D) Contrived

Question 19

How is the Ecological Model a person-centered framework when the focus is on contextual interventions?

A) The conditions that surround an individual are evaluated.
B) It acknowledges the passage of time.
C) Person-factors influence the quality and types of tasks chosen.
D) It identifies the supports and barriers.