Intervention Settings

Institutional

  • Inpatient hospitals
  • Inpatient rehabilitation (ARU)
  • Inpatient mental health
  • Subacute units/transitional care
  • Nursing facilities (SNF)
  • Prisons

Outpatient

  • Hospital outpatient
  • Outpatient clinics
  • Outpatient office
  • Outpatient rehabilitation
  • Partial hospitalization

Home and Community

  • Home care (Home Health)
  • Halfway houses
  • Group homes
  • Assisted living (ALF)
  • Sheltered workshops
  • Industry and business
  • Schools
  • Early intervention centers Day-care centers
  • Community mental health centers
  • Hospice
  • Wellness and fitness centers
  • Private
  • Virtual (Telehealth, mHealth)

Pediatric Practice Settings

Care and Education Sector

  1. Child’s Home
  2. Home of family, friend, or neighbor
  3. Family child care (licensed and unlicensed)
  4. Nonprofit and for-profit center-based childcare
  5. Early childhood special educational programs
  6. Early head start, Head start
  7. Nonprofit/For-profit center-based Pre-K
  8. School-based Pre-K programs, Elementary schools (Public, Charter, Private)
  9. School-based before/After-school care
  10. Specialty child care centers
  11. Community-based programs for early learning and enrichment

Health Sector

  1. Primary care offices/Community health clinics
  2. School-based health services
  3. Pediatric or specialty offices/Clinics
  4. Urgent care centers
  5. Hospitals

Social Services Sector

  1. Social service delivery agencies
  2. School-based social services

References

American Occupational Therapy Association. (2020). Occupational therapy practice framework: Domain and process (4th ed.). American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 74(Suppl. 2), 7412410010. https://doi. org/10.5014/ajot.2020.74S2001

Moyers, P. A. (1999). The guide to occupational therapy practice. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 53(3), 247-322.

Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation.

Committee on the Science of Children Birth to Age 8: Deepening and Broadening the Foundation for Success; Board on Children, Youth, and Families; Institute of Medicine; National Research Council; Allen LR, Kelly BB, editors. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2015 Jul 23.