Core Values
Transparency
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Ensuring clients and families understand the OT role, the process and any changes that occur
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Ensuring families/caregiver/parents understand findings, progress and outcomes
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Parents/families and clients feel safe to share information (e.g., completed/not completed home tasks), changes to circumstances and feedback
Expertise
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Parents hold expertise about their family, themselves and their children
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Children hold expertise about themselves
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Clinician's hold expertise in their field
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Other stakeholders hold their own expertise
All equally important, each have their own experiences and all have a place in the therapeutic relationship
Commitment and Compassion
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Ensuring therapeutic alliance
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Client and family commitment to the process such as engaging in home tasks
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Families and clients commitment to agreements such as trialling strategies
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Honesty about progress, feedback and adjustment to therapy plans as needed
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Flexibility in service delivery
Space for Vulnerability
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Caregivers to express feelings about child and therapy
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To ask for help when needed
