Pass the OT
1. Mosey's Groups: 2 Types
o 1. Developmental
o 2. Activity
2. 5 Types of Developmental Groups
o 1. Parallel
o 2. Project
o 3. Egocentric-Cooperative
o 4. Cooperative
o 5. Mature
3. 6 Types of Activity Groups
o 1. Evaluation
o 2. Task Oriented
o 3. Developmental
o 4. Thematic
o 5. Topical
o 6. Instrumental
4. Parallel Group
o A group composed of patients who have the ability to trust others
enough to tolerate being with
o more than one person at a time.
5. Parallel Group: OT Role
Leader
Provides boundaries
o Explains purpose
o Explains expectations for behavior
o Provides feedback on performance
6. Parallel Group: Goal
o To have each patient work on his own chosen task while
o sharing space with other patients
7. Project Group
o
A group experience in which the patients are expected to come together to
interact with each other in casual conversation and in order to complete a
short term task (about ½ hour work period).
8. Project Group: OT Role
Leader- plans and presents the short term task
o available during the work period to support, assist, and guide patients
as needed.
9. Project Group: Goal
o provide patients with the opportunity for trial and error
o learning for group interaction around a task, and for a balance of
cooperative and competitive experiences.
10.Egocentric-Cooperative Group
o
Patients come together to work on a task that is completed in 1 or 2 work
sessions (1 hr.)
11.Egocentric-Cooperative Group: OT Role
o Democratic Leader
o makes suggestions and allows patients to choose and carry out the
task and group plan
o Resource for facilitating task completion and a support that promotes
an atmosphere of acceptance and safety
12.Egocentric-Cooperative Group: Goals
o To have a task group in which the patients will learn to
o 1. identify group norms and goals
o 2. use their own knowledge and skills to respond in the group
o 3. experiement with different group roles
o 4. identify themselves as a group member with rights
o 5. respect the rights of other members' needs
o 6. gain satisfaction from participating in the group experience
13.Egocentric-Cooperative Group: Examples
o assertiveness
o communication skills
o stress management
14.Cooperative Group
o Cohesive group in which patients come together to express and share
their needs, thoughts, and feelings, and in which they listen to each
other.
o The task is used to promote sharing and listening, and does not seek to
produce an end product
o Behavior change is not the focus
15.Cooperative Group: OT Role
o Advisor
o Helps for the group
Initiates the task experience
o Becomes a participant who freely shares her thoughts and feelings
16.Cooperative Group: Goals
o Provide an experience for the patient that helps them to share:
o thoughts
o feelings
o values
o common interests
o Gain pleasure and satisfaction from the shared experience
17.Cooperative Group: Examples
o Art, poetry, music, and other creative experiences that facilitate
discussion of thoughts and feelings
o Value clarification groups
18.Mature Group
o Patients independently select, plan, and complete a group task which
is time limited and produces a specific end product
o Function of the group and group needs have priority over individual
needs
o The task experience is processed in order to help patients learn the
social-emotional and task roles of the group
o During the task each patient will identify the social-emotional and
task roles that they assume
19.Mature Group: OT Role
o
Group member, not the identified leader
20.Mature Group: Goals
Provide an activity that will allow the individual patient to put aside his
needs for the betterement of the group and to help the group accomplish it's
goal
21.Mature Group: Examples
o Community transition group
o Group in the community
22.Evaluation Group
o The OT uses a short term activity to observe the patient's interpersonal
skills and response to the activity.
o Specific areas of function which are evaluated are determined by the
frame of reference that is applied.
Intervention is not planned during this evaluation experience.
23.Task Oriented Group
o Has a tangible outcome (end product or service)
o Patient learns from interactions with others and the activity increases
awareness and understanding of himself and other patients
24.Task Oriented Group: What does the patient learn?
o
learns interpersonal skills, practices new behaviors, and explores the
interaction of thoughts, feelings,and behaviors that occur
25.Task Oriented Group: OT Role
Helps the patient process the activity experience and actively seeks to
change the patient's behavior through the group interaction that occurs
26.Developmental Group
o The patient learns group interaction skills through sequential, stage
specific activities
o Activities are graded simple to complex and short term to long term in
order to provide progressive challenges
27.Developmental Group: what do progressive challenges require?
o collaborative effort
o ability to complete
o increased independence in problem solving and task completion
28.Thematic Group
o Uses purposeful activities to help the patients gain knowledge, skills,
and attitudes necessary for function in a protective environment
o Patient learns ADLs, work, and leisure skills through didactic,
directive, and supportive experiences
29.Topical Groups
o Patient learns to independently use in the community the knowledge,
skills, and attitudes gained in a protective environment
o 2 types- anticipatory & concurrent
30.Topical Groups: Anticipatory
Patients focus on the future and the performance expectations needed in their
future environment
31.Topical Groups: Concurrent
Patients focus on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to function in
the present roles that the patient has in the community
32.Topical Groups: OT Role
o Prescribe activities and facilitate discussion of role expectations
o Identify the knowledge and skills needed to identify problems
o Promote brainstorming and skill practice for solving problems
33.Instrumental Groups
o OT uses activities to:
o maintain the patient's present level of function
o promote an optimum level of health