Occupational therapy approaches

Services typically include:

Teaching new ways of approaching tasks[51]
How to break down activities into achievable components e.g. sequencing a complex task like cooking a complex meal[51]
Comprehensive home and job site evaluations with adaptation recommendations.
Performance skills assessments and treatment.
Adaptive equipment recommendations and usage training.
Environmental adaptation including provision of equipment or designing adaptations to remove obstacles or make them manageable[51]
Guidance to family members and caregivers.[52]
The use of creative media as therapeutic activity
Activity analysis Activity analysis has been defined as a process of dissecting an activity into its component parts and task sequence in order to identify its inherent properties and the skills required for its performance, thus allowing the therapist to evaluate its therapeutic potential.[53]