2015, Vol.23, No.4

Korean Journal of Occupational Therapy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.81

pISSN : 1226-0134 / eISSN : 2671-4450
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kjot

Objective : It is to suggest a define the essential competencies for an occupational therapist, as well as clearly defining required tangible and intangible competencies. Methods : A comprehensive analysis of relevent data (related to occupational therapy competencies), and a draft for Korean occupational therapy essential competencies was drawn up with the acquired and derived results. With an invited group of experts of the field and related professionals, through a workshop setting, modifications and alterations were made. Results : The final draft consisted of the essential competencies for occupational therapy in Korea, divided into 7 units, 20 elements, and 71 performance criteria. Using the characteristics in the information, if occupational therapy competency evaluation is limited, and only being evaluated through education and national licensing exam, then core occupational therapy competencies should be evaluated through occupational therapist professional attitude, practice, occupational process management, professional development and education, and responsibility and ethics, with the weaker components being attitude, responsibility and ethics, and the representative aspect being overall process management. Conclusion : A suggestion to establish differentiated curriculums to maximize student’s performance abilities is being made, using the research as a way to introduce educational programs to the shift toward practice centered curriculums.

Objective : The aims of the present study were to investigate the job characteristics for Korean school based occupational therapist, and to organize their job areas by surveying the criticality of duty and frequency of tasks. Methods : We established the job scope of school based occupational therapist through the advice of the Expert Group, created a questionnaire. Survey was conducted for the job characteristics and the validity of school based occupational therapists group (39 people) from November 2012 to March 2015. The questionnaire was consisted of two domains: Job characteristics (working status, a diagnostic classification, a service provision method and form of practical therapeutic support), and practice analysis (criticality, frequency of tasks, priorities). It was extracted an essential tasks which was more than average on criticality and frequency of tasks. Results : The circuit special class and the one to one individual therapy was the highest practical therapeutic support method and form. Common diagnoses of clients were cerebral palsy, intellectual disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. In the job analysis, the highest criticality and frequency of task was ‘the plan for school based occupational therapy’ on duty, and ‘the improvement of upper extremity function’ on task. The 22 essential tasks were extracted of entire 43 tasks. Conclusion : Results of this study will be the basis to organize the job area of the school based occupational therapist. Refresher training and regular education (school) for occupational therapist should be made central to the essential tasks extracted.

Objective : The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between sensory processing features and personality in early adolescents. Methods : For the present study, Adolescents/Adults Sensory Profile (AASP) and Personality Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ) were used. AASP and PAQ were executed for 150 middle school students between the ages of 13 to 15. Corelation between the AASP and PAQ was analyzed using Pearson’s correlation analysis. Results : The significant correlations between sensory processing feature and personality in early adolescents presented statistically (moderate to fair degree of linear relationship). As the result of corelation between AASP and PAQ scores, sensory sensitivity had moderate relations with emotional instability, and fair degree relations with emotional unresponsiveness (p＜.01). Sensation avoiding had fair degree of relationship with emotional instability (p＜.01). Low registration had moderate relations with emotional instability, aggression, and fair degree of relationship with low self-esteem and negative self-adequacy (p＜.01). Sensory seeking was also moderately strong related to emotional instability, and fairly strong related to aggression (p＜.01). Conclusion : The sensory processing features were related to personality in early adolescents were significantly. Emotional instability affecting the sociality and developmental tasks of junior high school students had strong corelation to each sensory processing feature.