- Communicate with clients and explain how they can comply with personal limits.
- Communicate appropriate title, credentials, and
role.
- Establishes trust, accountability,
respect, compassion.
-Identify power issues in a professional relationship
but recognizes personal limits and respect diversity on occupational performance while maintaining personal and professional boundaries of their clients.

Examples
- Jerry does not misrepresent his role or credentials to others and recognizes her personal limits.

- He respects client diversity and maintains personal and professional boundaries. 
- Jerry maintains a working relationship with his clients

-their role as an OTA as well as the role of the OT

-client centered practice

-occupational performance, occupations, and occupational engagement

-the occupational therapy practice process
 
- OTA needs to understand clients Occupational therapy plan and how to implement it.                         
  -create a positive relationship with the client, be able to work with them and their families.                              
 -monitor clients performance and report back to the OT
 
- the OTA cares for client by: 
-applying effective problem-solving techniques
- uses current and relevant methods of practice that ensure client safety and performance.

- The OTA performs skills with knowledge of skills and abilities
- seeks advice and supervision from the OT 

 

- Demonstrates mentoring skills and helps the client understand the purpose of the session

- Applies feedback and self-evaluation to improve skills and knowledge.
- Establishes and implements a learning plan through input
- Professional PTA development contributes to learning  process by mentoring, supports learners and allows ourselves as resources, and participates in PTA student preceptorships.

Example
- Suzy can develop skills through practical application and improve skills and knowledge by applying feedback.

- Helps client comprehend purpose of the session

- Shares knowledge based on personal first hand experience. 

- Facilitates client participation in the intervention activities (e.g., reinforces the physiotherapist’s directions, provides encouragement).

-Participates in interprofessional client care

-PTAs work with physiotherapists within diverse areas of practice to improve patient mobility. 

-PTA provides therapeutic intervention assigned by PT to improve patient strength, flexibility with exercise. 

-PTA informed and record the patient recovering condition for further intervention.