Essential Guidance for Occupational Therapy: Core Official Documents of the
American Occupational Therapy Association
includes the Scope of Practice; Standards of Practice; Guidelines for Supervision, Roles, and Responsibilities; and the Code of Ethics. These foundational texts are intended for a wide audience of occupational therapy practitioners and students, other health care professionals, educators, researchers, payers, and consumers.”
Official documents of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
are reviewed on a 5-year cycle. The review period includes the voices of AOTA
members, scholars, authors, practitioners, AOTA volunteer leadership and staff,
and other stakeholders to ensure the documents maintain their integrity while
responding to emerging concepts and advances in occupational therapy.