Assessing Volition in Pediatrics: Using the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire

Autor: Anne Kiraly-Alvarez
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, Vol 3, Iss 3 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2168-6408
DOI: 10.15453/2168-6408.1176
Popis: Evidence suggests that pediatric occupational therapists predominantly use bottom-up, impairment-focused theoretical frameworks and assessments to guide their practice, despite the current trends promoting topdown, occupation-based approaches. Understanding a child’s volition, guided by the use of the Model of Human Occupation, contributes to a more occupation-based, client-centered, holistic, and strength-based approach to therapy. Two assessment tools, the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire, contribute to a therapists’ understanding of children’s volition. These assessments facilitate therapists’ clinical reasoning and the ability to assess and address volition throughout the occupational therapy process.
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