Occupational Therapy - Adolescence and Executive Skills
Occupational Therapy - Adolescence and Executive Skills
Occupational Therapy - Adolescence and Executive Skills
Stages of change
a. Early - 10 to 13 yrs
- increase hormonal activity
- newly formed skills
b. Middle
- 13 to 16 yrs
- experimentation
- risk taking due to peer
pressure,
acceptance, rebellion
c. Late - 16 to 19 yrs
- challenges
- future plans
Development Task (Havinghurst, 1953)
- clear sexual identity
- emotional independence
- economic independence
- select and prepare for occupation
- socially responsible
- establishing values and ethics
Issues/Challenges
- acceptance
- independence
- establish identity
Characteristics of adolscent with disabilities
1. Visual impaired
- subaverage speed
- limited mobility
- decrease abstract reasoning
2. Auditory impaired
- language develpomental delay (oral
& written)
- interferes in emotions and behaviors
3. Learning disabled
-cognitive, social, emotional,
behaviors
(primary concern)
4. Behavior disorder
- inappropriate satisfactory relations
w/ others
- fails to meet and/or exceeds
interpersonal
skills (i.e., conversation)
a. Mild - transient, disability w/ or w/o
interventn
b. Mod - intensive, interferes school
c. Sev - inability to function in all areas
5. Mental retaardation (mild to moderate)
- language development
- abstract reasoning
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July 9, 2015
Cornerstone Therapy Hub, Gusa, CDO
Lectured by: Thea Sheila Ocheda-Alonto, OTRP, MOH
Traditional assessment
a. Psychometric/Standardized testing
i. Intellectual & academic
assessment
Ex. Weischler Adult (WAIS)
b. Academic achievement test
Ex. Basic Occupational Therapy Test
(BOLT)
c. Aptitude test - disadvantage: limited
validity
II. Functional assessment
- independence in doing ADLs in the
environment
a. Psychometric/Standardized testing
i. Interest inventories
Ex. Ready Prevocational Interest
Inventory (RPII), Strong
Campbell
b. Personality test - qualitative attitude
c. Adaptive behavior scales
Ex. Adaptive Behvavior
Assessment System (16-89 yrs) a selfrating tool
Informal functional assessment
1. Work Sample
- predict trainability
- types
Ex. Valpar Component Work Sample:
10 series
- each series amounts to 15K
- very expensive but very
concrete
- face-out
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July 9, 2015
Cornerstone Therapy Hub, Gusa, CDO
Lectured by: Thea Sheila Ocheda-Alonto, OTRP, MOH
3 yrs 5 yrs 11-13 12 yrs 12-15 15/16 15-18 18-21 20-29 Ages -
flexible to plan
significant inhibition, reflect actions
boys has good visual memory
goal
goes thru changes, on going plan
intentional
plan maturely
peak planning
peak of executive functioning
declines
July 9, 2015
Cornerstone Therapy Hub, Gusa, CDO
Lectured by: Thea Sheila Ocheda-Alonto, OTRP, MOH