Assessing Volition in Pediatrics: Using the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire
Evidence suggests that pediatric occupational therapists predominantly use bottom-up, impairment-focused theoretical frameworks and assessments to guide their practice, despite the current trends promoting topdown, occupation-based approaches. Understanding a child’s volition, guided by the use of...
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| description | Evidence suggests that pediatric occupational therapists predominantly use bottom-up, impairment-focused
theoretical frameworks and assessments to guide their practice, despite the current trends promoting topdown,
occupation-based approaches. Understanding a child’s volition, guided by the use of the Model of
Human Occupation, contributes to a more occupation-based, client-centered, holistic, and strength-based
approach to therapy. Two assessment tools, the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional
Questionnaire, contribute to a therapists’ understanding of children’s volition. These assessments facilitate
therapists’ clinical reasoning and the ability to assess and address volition throughout the occupational
therapy process. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b45d507851d0451d8e935b2a025af70f2022-12-21T20:04:46ZengScholarworks @ WMUOpen Journal of Occupational Therapy2168-64082168-64082015-07-013310.15453/2168-6408.1176Assessing Volition in Pediatrics: Using the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional QuestionnaireAnne Kiraly-AlvarezEvidence suggests that pediatric occupational therapists predominantly use bottom-up, impairment-focused theoretical frameworks and assessments to guide their practice, despite the current trends promoting topdown, occupation-based approaches. Understanding a child’s volition, guided by the use of the Model of Human Occupation, contributes to a more occupation-based, client-centered, holistic, and strength-based approach to therapy. Two assessment tools, the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire, contribute to a therapists’ understanding of children’s volition. These assessments facilitate therapists’ clinical reasoning and the ability to assess and address volition throughout the occupational therapy process.http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1176&context=ojotClinical reasoningOccupation-basedPediatric assessment |
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| title | Assessing Volition in Pediatrics: Using the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire |
| title_full | Assessing Volition in Pediatrics: Using the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire |
| title_fullStr | Assessing Volition in Pediatrics: Using the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing Volition in Pediatrics: Using the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire |
| title_short | Assessing Volition in Pediatrics: Using the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire |
| title_sort | assessing volition in pediatrics using the volitional questionnaire and the pediatric volitional questionnaire |
| topic | Clinical reasoning Occupation-based Pediatric assessment |
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