Performance

Patterns
By: Shannon Russell and Isabella Tate
OCCT 422-01 Fundamentals of Practice
Dr. Stuart
 Learning Objectives
● Define performance patterns as a domain of occupational
therapy

● Identify examples of habits, routines, rituals and roles from

personal occupational experiences

● Be ready to apply the 4 aspects of performance patterns to a

simulated OT/Client interview
Mosey’s teaching/learning principles

How will we help you understand the OTPF material and

communicate its importance in the OT practice?

Active Participation Motivation Feedback

Learning through Keeping class Offering feedback
doing (closing interested by to students
activity) actively engaging responses
w/ material
Performance
Patterns
“The acquired habits, routines, roles,
and rituals used in the process of
engaging consistently in occupations
and can support or hinder occupational
performance” (AOTA, 2020)
 Main aspects
Habits Routines
01 Specific behaviors 03 Established sequences

Rituals Roles
02 Symbolic actions 04 Place in society

AOTA, 2020
 Habits
OTPF: “Specific, automatic adaptive or maladaptive behaviors”
(AOTA, 2020)

Healthy vs. Unhealthy

- Acquired tendencies Efficient vs. Inefficient
- Automatic behaviors Supportive vs. Harmful

What is an example of a healthy habit you have in

your daily routine?
AOTA, 2020
 ROUTINES
OTPF: “Established sequences of occupations or activities that
provide a structure for daily life” (AOTA, 2020)

- Regular patterns of behavior

- Can promote or damage health
- Shared routines

Ex: Reading before bed, making coffee every

morning AOTA, 2020
 RITUALS
OTPF: “Symbolic actions with spiritual, cultural, or social
meaning” that “contribute to a client’s identity and reinforce
the client’s values and beliefs” (AOTA, 2020)

- Can be associated with

seasons, holidays, time of
day/week/year

AOTA, 2020
Ex: Saying grace before meals
 roles
OTPF: “Sets of behaviors expected by society and shaped by
culture and context” (AOTA, 2020)

- Based on client’s current occupations

- Are conceptualized/defined by client

Ex: Student → What are some things you do in AOTA, 2020

your role as a student?
 Temporal Factors
Structure Influences
Time gives good Biological rhythms,
organizational work/social schedules,
structure/rhythm and cultural patterns

Time Use Time Management

How one maps out their How one schedules,
days/weeks/years in organizes, and/or
accordance with routines prioritizes activities
and activities

AOTA, 2020
Application as an ot
● It is important to consider a client's’ past,
present, and possible future behavioral and
performance patterns to better understand
how certain patterns were or may be
integrated into one’s life

● Essential skills in a productive manner is

key AOTA, 2020
○ Example: have the skills but not using them
where needed
 Reference page

American Occupational Therapy Association. (2020).

Occupational therapy practice framework: Domain and
process (4th ed.). American Journal of Occupational
Therapy, 74(Suppl. 2), Article 7412410010.
https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2020.74S2001
 Activity:

Identifying
performance
patterns!
Teaching methods for different
learners
Visual Auditory Tactile

Definitions and Watching skit and Processing and

examples given in collaborating writing
logical sequence within group information from
activity
Activity Groups
Routines
Habits
Nate P. Hannah T.
Alicia C. Kaitlyn W.
Sara F. Kassie B.
Emma F. Maddie S.
Emily B.

Roles Get into your

Rituals
Kalina D. Emma S.
Colin P. Hannah D.
Abigail K. Melissa W. groups!
Grace D. Katelyn K. We’ll be coming
Ava D.
around with
paper and
markers:)
 Main aspects
Habits Routines
01 Specific behaviors 03 Established sequences

Rituals Roles
02 Symbolic actions 04 Place in society

AOTA, 2020
 Did you get it right?
Habits Roles
- Exercises from PT - Mom
- Cracking knees - Chauffeur
- Cook in the house

Routines Rituals
- Going to the park on - Annual trip to Disney
Fridays - Kneeling during
- Yoga church
- Helping son with
bathing