Learning Module
Personal Learning Portfolio
October 2014
Let’s Get Started
Use this Personal Learning Portfolio to answer
questions posed throughout the chapters of the
Learning Module, to reflect on your practice and how
you might use the COPM in your practice, or to respond
to the quizzes and exercises presented here.
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Chapter 1
Introduction to the COPM
In this chapter, you will be introduced to the Canadian Occupational
Performance Measure, learn about its characteristics and discover how you can
use it to support your practice.
Compare the COPM with the measures you are
currently using in your practice.
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Chapter 1
Why Use the COPM?
How do you find out what clients are thinking?
Identify new approaches you could try.
Goal Setting
How do you discover the occupations most
important to your clients and set therapy
goals? List any difficulties you may have.
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Chapter 1
Measuring Outcomes
What evidence are you gathering that
demonstrates the value of occupational
therapy services?
Examples
Write down your observations and your
reflections on the videos shown.
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Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Quiz
1 What is the COPM?
2 What are the theoretical underpinnings of the
COPM?
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3 How is the information gathered using the
COPM?
4 How is the COPM used to generate therapeutic
goals?
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5 Why is the COPM an outcome measure?
Notes:
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Chapter 2
Theoretical Underpinnings:
Client-centred Practice
This chapter covers client-centred practice as an overall orientation to practice,
rather than a specific theory or approach.
How Client-centred Are You?
What did you learn in this exercise that might
help you characterize your practice?
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Chapter 2
Core Concepts of Client-centred
Practice
Try to match recent interactions with a client
to the core concepts described in this section.
Assumptions
Did the clients know what they wanted from
therapy? How did the therapists facilitate
change?
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Chapter 2
Therapist Requirements
Identify which principles are being illustrated
in the interviews with these clients.
Challenges
Identify ways you can address challenges you
may be facing in your practice.
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Chapter 2
Strategies
How do you set goals with your clients? Does
it take more or less time than 20 minutes?
Chapter 2 Quiz
1 What are the core concepts of client-centred
practice?
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Chapter 2
2 How does the client-centred approach differ
from the biomedical approach with clients?
3 What are some of the techniques you could use
to facilitate client-centred practice?
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4 Name at least two client-level, therapist-level
and organizational challenges to client-centred
practice.
Notes:
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Chapter 3
Theoretical Underpinnings:
Occupation-based Practice
This chapter explores occupation- based practice by reflecting on human
occupation and the role it plays in your practice. We start by asking you to
reflect on your own occupations.
Your Own Occupations
Fill out the following Occupation Diary and
answer these questions when finished:
Add up the hours for each:
Self-care
Productivity
Leisure
How much of your day is devoted to activities of choice?
What role takes up most of your day?
Where do you spend most of your average day?
Are you engaged more in activities alone or with others?
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Chapter 3
Time
Activity
Self-care,
Productivity
or Leisure?
Choice or
Obligation?
Role
Envir.
Alone
or with
Others?
5:00 am
6:00
7:00
8:00
9:00
10:00
11:00
12:00 pm
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
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Chapter 3
Time
Activity
Self-care,
Productivity
or Leisure?
Choice or
Obligation?
Role
Envir.
Alone
or with
Others?
5:00 pm
6:00
7:00
8:00
9:00
10:00
11:00
12:00 am
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
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Chapter 3
The Nature of Occupation-based
Practice
Do you use a client-centred measure and do
you focus on productivity, self-care and
leisure occupations?
Is your intervention focused on occupations or
is it focused on a bio-physical model? Why?
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Chapter 3
How do you measure how effective your
therapy program has been? How will your
administrator or other observers know?
Chapter 3 Quiz
1 What are five things about occupation that
makes it curious?
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2 How does Dr. Yerxa describe occupation?
3 What is “occupation” composed of in
occupational therapy?
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4 What are three basic assumptions of occupation?
5 Why is the COPM an outcome measure?
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Chapter 4
Interviewing, Administering
and Scoring the COPM
In this chapter, the versatility of the COPM will be demonstrated. You will see
different clients in different settings, with different interviewers using interview
techniques.
Chapter 4 Quiz
1 The COPM focuses on the daily occupations that
False
are important to the client. True
2 The COPM helps to identify goals for therapy.
False
True
3 The COPM helps us to understand why the client
is experiencing occupational performance
False
problems. True
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4 The COPM measures change over time in
False
occupational performance. True
5 The COPM sets priorities among problem areas.
False
True
6 The COPM compares the client’s performance to
False
that of others. True
7 The COPM shows how the client thinks s/he is
False
currently doing. True
8 The COPM helps the client to understand the role
False
of OT. True
9 The COPM sends a message about the nature of
False
the therapeutic relationship. True
10 The COPM shows how the therapist evaluates
performance. True
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Chapter 4
The Interview
How do you introduce yourself and the
assessment that you are using?
Problem Definition
How would different clients you know
respond to different approaches?
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Chapter 5
COPM Research Evidence
This chapter provides you with comprehensive information about the initial
testing and subsequent research evidence on the psychometric properties of the
COPM.
Validity
Consider which of the studies would support
the use of the COPM both in your practice and
among your colleagues.
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