I found this article on AJOT. It discusses the importance of clinical reasoning in occupational therapy and how understanding the patient's diagnosis plays a key role in helping determine their strengths and weaknesses. This is because the diagnosis gives us background information on problems the patient may have so that we are able to create a clinical image of the patient based off of the diagnosis. The diagnosis allows us to begin intervention planning. Although the occupational therapy assessment is holistic and encompasses way more than just the diagnosis, it can be used as a starting point. https://ajot.aota.org/Article.aspx?articleid=1877114
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