Your guide to Occupational Therapy

We know your ability to complete Activities of Daily Living independently can impact on your mental health and vice versa. Your OT will look at how you are able to complete tasks and support you to change or adapt in order to complete these more effectively. We may adapt the task, the way you do the task or the environment in which you do the task or the intensity of the task.

1. Initial Assessments

When you first arrive at HWC your OT will complete the Initial Assessments with you, namely;

The Interest Checklist

The OSA (Occupational Self-Assessment)

The OCAIRS (Occupational Circumstances Assessment Interview and Rating Scale)

These assessments help us to:

Build a rapport with you

Get to know you, your habits, routines, capabilities and function

Help you identify goals you wish to achieve while in hospital and in the future.

2. Goal Plan

We will help you to:

Identify your Functional needs/goals.

Prioritise those that are most important to you Help you write step-by-step plans to achieve them

These goals will be individual and personal to you, based on your needs, motivations, interests.

3. Interventions

OT interventions incorporate all ‘Activities of Daily Living that adults require to live independently. You will often hear them referred to as ADL’s.

The ADL areas we cover include:

Domestic ADL’s/ Personal ADL’s / Community ADL’s and Meaningful ADL’s - see below for more details. We will help you to learn the skills required to complete those ADL’s

4. Review / Re-assess

Estabish a meaningful routine

Identify and complete hobbies and interests independently

Internal volunteer work

Peer- led projects

Socialisation skills

Where you have improved ��

What areas / tasks still need work and

We continually assess (sometimes formally) to see: how to adapt your goals/ plans accordingly.

GROUPS

We run various groups:

OT INTERVENTIONS

All OT interventions aim to look at the below and help you to develop where needed: Time management, self-management, problem solving skills, organisation skills, concentration, negotiation, coordination, decision-making, memory retention, planning, timing, adapting, communication, socialisation, patience and team work, responsibility, orientation, gross and fine motor skills, dexterity, transfers, mobility, coping skills (to manage your internal and external environment), stress management, assertiveness, adaptation of the physical environment………..INDEPENDENCE!

Some are activity-based, such as Art group, and aim to help broaden your interests and hobbies.

Some are Psycho-social / Psychoeducational, such as 'Sleep Hygiene' or 'Moving Forward,' and aim to increase your wellbeing and independence.

Occupational Therapy