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OTIPM Institute Details
The Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model

4 Ways to Register

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(603) 862-2015

Wednesday-Friday, January 12-14, 2005
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m
Location: UNH Durham Campus,
Memorial Union Building, Holloway Center
$275, materials and lunch included
CRN 25719

21-24 Contact Hours, 2.1 CEUs

 

For More Information
About the Institute: Call Maura Byrne
at (603) 431-2515

About Registration: Call (603) 862-2015 or
(800) 313-5327 (NH, except seacoast)

About Other Professional Development Programs:
Call (603) 862-4234 or go to www.learn.unh.edu

 

OTIPM—
A model for implementing top-down,
client-centered, and occupation-based assessment,
intervention, and documentation

The Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model (OTIPM) is a professional reasoning tool that occupational therapists can use to ensure that they are using occupation as a means (interventions) and as end (outcome). Effective use of occupation depends on a concurrent commitment to true top-down and client-centered practice.

Occupational therapists can also become better advocates for promoting occupational therapy to consumers, third-party payers, and other professionals if they understand the unique contributions of occupational therapy to healthcare.

Stressing occupational performance in evaluations, interventions, and documentation is an important mechanism for promoting quality of life while communicating who occupational therapists are and how what they do is unique.


About Anne Fisher, ScD, OTR, FAOTA

Professor Fisher is an internationally recognized expert in occupational therapy theory, functional assessment, and instrument development. She developed the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS), an innovative, occupational-therapy-specific functional assessment used to test children, adults, and older persons who are experiencing or are at risk for problems with performance of self-care or home maintenance activities of daily living. The AMPS is standardized on approximately 50,000 people for use in more than 20 countries in North America, Scandinavia, Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East.

She has also published more than 70 articles in refereed professional journals and more than 15 books or books chapters, and her new book on OTIPM will be out in print shortly.

She is a member of the Academy of Research of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation, and was awarded the A. Jean Ayres Award in 1991 in recognition of: her efforts refining and synthesizing the theories of sensory integration and the model of human occupation, for excellence in teaching, and for innovative research in measurement and functional assessment.

She was the 1997 recipient of the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship for distinguished contributions to theory and functional assessment. In her Slagle lecture, Professor Fisher first introduced the Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model, a professional reasoning model that enables occupational therapists to implement client-centered, occupation-based and true top-down assessment and intervention.

In November 2000, Professor Fisher was awarded an honorary doctorate (hedersdoktor) from Umeå University, Sweden, and is the first occupational therapist ever to have been so honored by that institution.

Most recently, she was named University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, an honor bestowed on only 10 faculty who have made significant national and international contributions to their profession.
She is currently Professor, Division of Occupational Therapy, Umeå University, Sweden.


Institute Objectives

A variety of learning experiences (lecture, discussion, case studies, and experiential learning), will be included to provide understanding in the following areas:

1. The professional reasoning process defined in the OTIPM

2. Concepts and applications of the OT Practice Framework

3. Distinctions between restoration and compensation, as well as the distinctions between preparation, rote exercise or practice, simulated occupation, restorative occupation, and adaptive occupation

4. How to apply true top-down reasoning in client-centered occupational therapy assessment, intervention, and documentation

5. How to link OT models of practice and evaluation methods into the OT process


Agenda-at-a-Glance

Day 1
Morning Session
• Occupational therapy — Enabling everyday doings
• Types of occupational therapy interventions

Afternoon Session
• Introduction to the OTIPM
• Occupational performance skills

Day 2
Morning Session
• Case Application I — Adult, motor and
process skills

Afternoon Session
• Case Application I — Continued
• Documentation and goal-writing
• Case Application II — School-aged child, social interaction skills

Day 3
Morning Session
• Case Application II — Continued
• Documentation

Afternoon Session
• Framing function from a unique occupational therapy perspective
• Discussion
• Final thoughts


Cost and Refund Policy

$275 includes materials, lunch, breaks, and parking.
Refunds, less a $25 processing fee, will be given if written cancellation is received five business days prior to the conference.

Contact Hours and CEUs

Participants will receive 21-24 oontact hours. 2.1 CEUs will be awarded by the University of New Hampshire.

Location and Time

The institute will be held on the University of New Hampshire Durham campus at the Holloway Center, Memorial Union Building. The institute will be held from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. each day.

Accommodations

Overnight accommodations are not included in the cost of the institute, but several excellent options for lodging in Durham and the seacoast area are available and include:

UNH New England Center, Durham, (603) 862-2800
Three Chimneys Inn, Durham, (603) 868-7800
Hickory Pond Inn, Durham, (603) 659-2227

Plus Sheraton, Marriott, Hampton Inn, Motel 6, and many other lodging establishments in Portsmouth, NH, approx. 15 minutes from Durham.

Click here for an expanded list of possible accommodations.



4 Ways to Register

On the Web: Go to www.learn.unh.edu/OTIPM
By Phone: Call (603) 862-2015 or 1-(800) 313-5327 (NH, except seacoast) with credit card information.
By Mail: Mail form below with ­payment.
By Fax: Fax form with credit card information to (603) 862-0655.

For More Information

About the Institute: Call Maura Byrne at (603) 431-2515
About Registration: Call (603) 862-2015 or (800) 313-5327 (NH, except
seacoast)

 

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