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The OTPF is a document that provides the guidelines for occupational therapy practitioners to guide their practice. It outlines the factors that can affect a client including client factors, performance skills, performance patterns, context and environment, and activity demands. It also provides the domains that occupational therapy practitioners use to assess a client. Domains are activities that people find meaningful. Then the document discusses the process of evaluation, intervention, and outcome measures. The OTPF ultimately establishes a uniform terminology for practitioners to follow.

In my current phase of life, my biggest role is an occupational therapy student. One of the most important occupations as a student in this program is studying. There are many activities that go into studying, and some of my go-to activities include drawing images and diagrams using bright colors and testing myself. The tasks that go into drawing include picking up the colored pencil, picturing the image, and physically putting the pencil to the paper. The main task involved in testing myself is creating questions.

Occupational therapy has come a long way over the past century, but the fundamentals of the profession have not changed very much. The goal has always been to help clients participate in the occupations that they find meaningful. For example, an important occupation in the life of a child is participation in play. Even though the toys children play with have changed throughout time, children have consistently participated in play so that they can grow their social, cognitive, and fine motor skills.