(24 minutes) Watch Lorrae & Dani respond to questions about occupational formulation.

00:00 Welcome and facilitator reflections on recent interactions with therapists and students:

  • about how incorporating occupational can shine a light on practice steps or skills that may need attention. E.g. assessments, giving feedback.

  • about the importance of therapeutic reasoning in applying occupational formulation (or any element of occupational therapy work)

  • that the use of second person when writing the narrative may hold the therapist to account by ensuring use of jargon-free, recovery-oriented language that will be meaningful to the person

07:00 How long should a formulation be? How much info is needed?

11:00 It took me ages to write my first OF, will it get easier?

15:00 What if there isn’t any positive volitional info?

18:45 Where in the occupational formulation do I describe the effects of illness or injury?

20:47 How do I gather occupational identity information from people who are non-verbal?

23:13 Concluding comments