This section of the website was created to provide quick background information about common conditions as seen through the lens of Occupational Therapy (OT). The conditions are categorized into pediatric, adult, and older adult life stages based on the common age of onset.
The Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement (CMOP-E) was used as an overarching structure to organize information on each condition page in the same manner. Every condition page contains the following information: condition description, common symptoms (physical, cognitive, affective), assessments (physical, cognitive, affective, functional), common occupational performance issues, frames of reference, and possible interventions. Information for the condition descriptions and common symptoms were largely adapted from the information found in Atchison and Dirette’s (2012) text on conditions seen in OT. The remaining sections were populated based on experience and clinical reasoning.
The information contained on these pages do not represent a comprehensive analysis of the conditions and should not be used to to make clinical decisions. Rather, they are meant to supplement learning and provide high level background information for common conditions seen in OT practice.
Reference
Atchison, B., & Dirette, D. P. (2012). Conditions in occupational therapy: Effect on occupational performance. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.