What is OT in 2025?

Through OT Potential, we’ve released over 94 episodes all exploring new influential OT research. As we enter 2025, it’s time to reflect on the research and ask:

What trends are we seeing in OT? How is new research enriching how we think about our practice?

In this 1 hour-episode, we’ll talk about new trends, with a particular focus on what commonalities we see leaders in our field doing in their occupational therapy process. We’ll culminate our discussion by exploring how people describe OT. This will be informed by our OT practice framework, but with a special focus on how we communicate about OT to the public.

For this exploration, we’ll welcome back to the podcast a past guest, who is now working in new frontiers for OT: Sarah Brzeszkiewicz, OTR/L. Together we’ll unpack what all of these trends mean for your OT practice.

1. You will be able to recognize trends within the research related to OT intervention.

2. You will be able to recognize the trends in research around how AI is impacting the practice of OT.

• Intro

• Discussion on practical implications for OTs

  1. Sarah & Sarah give their background and tell about their year.

  2. What surprised you about OT in 2024?

  3. What strengths do you see for OT headed into 2025?

  4. What are the weaknesses in OT we need to confront?

  5. What are the external opportunities we need to watch for?

  6. What are the external threats to OT?

  7. Based on the conversations I’ve had on the podcast, here are 5 things I would change about my practice in 2025. Do you agree or disagree with these?

  8. Here’s how I’m defining OT in 2025. Do you agree or disagree?

  9. What are your predictions about OT in 2025?

Primary

• Occupational therapy practice framework: Domain and process—Fourth edition

Additional

• Advancing clinical decision support: The role of artificial intelligence across six domains

• Motor learning in neurological rehabilitation

• Use of an ambient artificial intelligence tool to improve quality of clinical documentation

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OT Potential's interest in this topic: We have no financial stake in this topic.

Speaker interests: Sarah Brzeszkiewicz is Clinical Impact Specialist at Ambience Healthcare, which sells ambient AI scribing technology to healthcare providers.