On August 31, 2020 the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) published the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF), 4th edition. In this edition, interoception has been added under sensory functions (AOTA, 2020, p.3). In a recent survey of occupational therapists (Appendix A), while 79% of respondents were familiar with the term interoception, their definitions of interoception varied widely. Only 21% of respondents used an assessment tool to consider interoceptive function in their practice. Meanwhile 84% believed that knowing more about interoception would change the way they evaluate and intervene in occupational therapy practice. If we, as a profession, believe that interoception is important enough to include in our practice framework, it is imperative that occupational therapy practitioners heed this gap in knowledge to practice translation and utilize educational resources to benefit from practice reinforced by recent research (which suggests that interoception processes underlie many of the client factors occupational therapy addresses). This project seeks to facilitate occupational therapy practitioner’s as they embrace this addition to our practice framework worldwide. This will be accomplished through development of an educational program of online learning modules steeped in evidence-based research to provide practitioners with the most current information about interoception and how it applies to occupational therapy. Utilizing the brand new OTPF-4, occupational therapy practitioners (OTP) can uniquely consider client factors and domain specific areas with an overlay of interoceptive relevancy. / 2023-05-14T00:00:00Z
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/42565 |
| Date | 14 May 2021 |
| Creators | Schmitt, Carolyn McKeown |
| Contributors | Stone, Lauren, Jacobs, Karen |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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