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AL 254 Part 2
Contexts and Emerging Practice Areas
Question | Answer |
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What Contextual Factors affect practice? | Social, economic, political, geographical, demographic, virtual, other. |
What are Traditional Practice Areas? | Mental Health, Physical Disability, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Industrial |
What are Emerging Practicing Areas? | Technology, Wellness/Health promotion/ Disease Prevention, Productive Aging, Ergonomics, Universal Design, Mental Health: children and returning soldiers. |
Technology? | Telehealth,Telerehabilitation, assistive technology, using new technology for OT. |
Wellness/Prevention? | Individual interventions, organization level interventions, community or population level interventions, government or policy level interventions. |
Productive Aging | Aging-in-place, health promotion, work/lesiure/community activities, driving, low vision. dementia, caregiver issues. |
Mental Health | Returning veterans/soldiers-PTSD, TBI etc. Children and youth- depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, violence prevention, sensory integration approaches |