Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatric Units

[ShelleyOT]

I am the newly and first OT hired for an adolescent inpatient unit in Boston. I will developing OT service on a very established and comprehensive unit. I am looking for sample OT evaluations for this specific population or others interested in giving me feedback on what my OT eval should look like, etc. The children are 8-17y.o. and are very acute (psychosis, harm to themselves or others, AN very low body weights, OCD, ADHD, Autism, anxiety, bi-polar, etc). Any contacts or comments would be welcome.

thanks!!
Shelley

[bmartin]

Shelley,
I also work on an in-patient child/adolescent psychiatric unit. One tool that I have recently started using is the Child Occupational Self-Assessment. I have found it to be one of the most effective tools I have tried for gathering information from this population. You might want to give it a try.
Brenda
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Brenda Martin

[Tina Champagne]

Hi Brenda,
Can you share with folks where we can obtain it from? Thanks for sharing!
Sincerely,
Tina
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Tina Champagne, OTD, OTR/L

[bmartin]

The COSA is available from the MOHO Clearinghouse. www.moho.uic.edu
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Brenda Martin

[Tina Champagne]

Thank you!
Tina
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Tina Champagne, OTD, OTR/L