Am J Occup Ther. 2022 Nov 1;75(Supplement_3). doi: 10.5014/ajot.2021.75S3009.
Continuing competence is essential to occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants for fulfilling their roles and abilities across experience, context, and time. It requires an ongoing process to keep up with new developments related to the profession and specialty areas throughout one's career (i.e., early, mid-, late, change, or reentry). To build capacity, occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants must commit to a process of self-assessment, reflecting on, in, and toward action to advance the knowledge, professional reasoning, interpersonal skills, performance skills, and ethical practice necessary to perform current and future roles and responsibilities within the profession. The American Occupational Therapy Association's Standards for Continuing Competence serve as a foundation for analyzing the occupation in regard to continuing competence. These standards can be viewed separately and collectively and can be combined with other standards documents to gain an overarching perspective.
持续胜任力对于职业治疗师和助理职业治疗师在整个职业生涯中履行其角色和能力至关重要，无论经验、背景和时间如何。它需要一个持续的过程，以跟上与职业和专业领域相关的新发展（即在职业生涯的早期、中期、晚期、变化或重新进入）。为了增强能力，职业治疗师和助理职业治疗师必须承诺进行自我评估，反思、内省和行动，以提高知识、专业推理、人际交往技能、绩效技能和伦理实践，这些都是在专业领域内履行当前和未来角色和责任所必需的。美国职业治疗协会的持续胜任力标准是分析职业治疗师持续胜任力的基础。这些标准可以单独和集体查看，也可以与其他标准文件结合使用，以获得全面的视角。
