Occupational Strategies
Occupational
I never had an actual job, but through my experince babysitting my niece, nephew, and my neighbors’ children, the risk I see and need to set a goal for is to stop developing stress. Taking care of many kids all at the same time by myself can sometimes get frustrating, especially when they don’t listen. It also gets more stressful whenever I would have other things to do, such as catch up on homework or studies during the weekend. Even when they are busy playing, I always have to keep my eyes on them. A strategy to address my risk of stress is to plan separate agendas and crafts early in the week before the weekend to gather equipments necessary, so that all the kids in different ages can participate. I would also check the weather …show more content…
forecast for that day so that I know when I can plan outside activities. Often times, especially since I started college, I usually don’t make time to plan crafts for them ahead. This will also allow me to focus on my school work throughout the week if I get my babysitting schedule out of the way. I can measure my completion of this strategy by coming into my duty ready to start activities and evaluate how the kids did that day and how I felt. Also, since some of the families who I have been babysitting have known me for so long, they don’t provide me a general schedule of what they want, such as what time their kids should be in bed, since they trust me. Another strategy I need to utilize is communicating and taking the initiative to ask the parents details ahead of time just in case they don’t say anything during the day they leave. This will decrease my worries and stress planning while I am already with the kids and spend more time participating in activities with them to keep them busy. I can evaluate this strategy by keeping track of who provided me details and writing it down in the notes in my phone.
II. Social
As for my social wellness, the risk I identified is becoming more distant from my family and close friends before college, so my goal is to build my relationships with them. For my family, a strategy I can use is contacting them to plan dinners once a week so that we maintain having family time and talk about our lives during that time. I can check if this strategy is effective by evaluating the effect it has on my relationship with my family, whether we talk or text more often to one another or not. This might take a month or two to really see if our relationships are getting stronger or if it is only during those times we have dinners or gatherings. As for my friends from high school and in my neighborhood, I need to communicate with them about our individual busy schedules and make decisions together of when the right place and time would be to meet up and hang out, especially during the summer. To evaluate this strategy, I have to give it a whole semester and over the summer and journal what happens to see who is actually trying to work out our friendships and who isn’t. If it comes to this point, I know I will need to think positively and realize that those who I will stay friends with are the ones important and accept that I can’t please everybody.
III. Emotional
The risk I see in my emotional wellness involves keeping my emotions inside during hard times.
I don’t often express my emotions when they’re negative ones, to my support system, and that is something I need to change. I need to set a goal to decrease the stress I put on myself during these challenges. A strategy I can utilize is actually being more open little by little to my family. I can start with my mom who I feel I am the most comfortable with. A way to evaluate this strategy is by checking on my own thoughts inside and reminding myself to let my feelings and thoughts out and see the result of having the pressure and stress decrease. Another risk I can identify is that I tend to think about negative thoughts during problems, especially during family problems, and I don’t talk to my own family about it. According to the MayoClinic, “To monitor your stress, first identify your triggers. What makes you feel angry, tense, worried or irritable?” (MayoClinic, 2017). A strategy I can use is record and keep track of the negative thoughts in my head, find out the triggers, and avoid and stop thinking about them. Instead, I need to talk to my family when we have problems as my coping mechanism instead of thinking negative thoughts. I need to make this a habit and lifestyle and strengthen my communication with my family when problems …show more content…
arise.
IV. Intellectual
My intellectual health risk I can identify involves not being open to new ideas that I am not used to or don’t believe in. Whether it’s in literature or current issues, I usually pay no mind to them and make my arguments based on my own opinions and beliefs. Even though I challenge my mind to give consideration to the other side, I do not develop my curiosity for this, so my goal needs to develop my curiosity. A strategy to assess this risk is by reading literature and current issues to be more ideas and concepts I would not necessarily talk about and develop my knowledge of. To assess the effect of this strategy, I can compare my previous thoughts and knowledge about these ideas and concepts to my current thoughts and knowledge about them. I can begin and and complete this strategy in a few weeks. Another strategy I can utilize is by participating in political organizations in my school to be open and feel the need to develop my curiosity, which will add motivation on my part. I can assess the effect of this strategy by reflecting on the development of how I think and build my knowledge about new ideas. I will complete this strategy by participating in the activities throughout a whole semester and see if there is a difference in my way of thinking.
V. Physical
The risk associated with my physical wellness would be my lack of exercise.
I realize that I rarely make time to exercise, especially ever since I had gotten to college. I do eat a variety of food, but I know that I will also need to exercise everyday for at least 30 minutes, especially since I know from my family genogram that high blood pressure runs in our family. A strategy I will need to utilize is to make time to exercise for at least 30 minutes each day. After a few weeks, I can evaluate if this strategy is effective by keeping track of my steps and buying a fitbit watch to monitor if I get out of breath quick after taking the stairs, which is how I usually feel now. Another strategy to assess this risk is to avoid eating fried foods and foods high in fat and sodium. To evaluate this strategy, I will need to carefully check the fat and sodium content in the food I intake, especially in the snacks I choose, and make better decisions. I would need to practice both of these strategies every day and make them lifestyle
habits.
VI. Spiritual
My spiritual health risk involves feeling too busy and lacking time to attend mass as a part of my spirituality and religion, especially since my family and I have different schedules and I was used to having all of us going all together before. A strategy to fix this risk is to manage my schedule and make time to attend mass and church services on my own here on campus, which is a great place for my strategy since Carlow is a Catholic university. I need to find out which day the Campus Ministry holds mass and attend on those days, or if I can’t and have another thing on my schedule I can’t miss, I will make it up by going to the chapel to have my own quiet time to reflect even if there is no mass. I know one of my friends, who is also Catholic, always goes to the chapel at least once a week, and so another strategy I can utilize is having her remind me and we can go together. Having someone will help me immensely since I always got used to attending church with my family or a group of people. A way to evaluate both of these strategies is by journaling how often I attend mass here on campus, checking my progress, and seeing if I feel better about my spirituality and don’t feel guilty about not being involved in my religion. I will need to maintain this practice and make it a habit again, like before college, in my lifestyle.
VII. Environmental
My environmental wellness risk involves hurting the environment by taking long showers, and this will hurt me as well as other people in the long run. It also makes the my parent's water bill costly when I’m home, so I need to take shorter showers. A strategy to fix this risk is to turn off the shower when I’m not using it and not keep it running. To assess this strategy, I need to check if I have made it a habit to turn the shower off when I’m not using it. Another strategy I can utilize to fix this risk is to write myself a sticky note where I can see it, like on the bathroom mirror, so that I will not forget to practice turning off the shower until it becomes a habit. To evaluate this strategy, I will need to make sure that the sticky note doesn’t get lost and check my progress based on my reminder. It will take a few weeks to continue doing these strategies until I can make it a habit to turn off the shower without thinking about it.
I never had an actual job, but through my experince babysitting my niece, nephew, and my neighbors’ children, the risk I see and need to set a goal for is to stop developing stress. Taking care of many kids all at the same time by myself can sometimes get frustrating, especially when they don’t listen. It also gets more stressful whenever I would have other things to do, such as catch up on homework or studies during the weekend. Even when they are busy playing, I always have to keep my eyes on them. A strategy to address my risk of stress is to plan separate agendas and crafts early in the week before the weekend to gather equipments necessary, so that all the kids in different ages can participate. I would also check the weather …show more content…
forecast for that day so that I know when I can plan outside activities. Often times, especially since I started college, I usually don’t make time to plan crafts for them ahead. This will also allow me to focus on my school work throughout the week if I get my babysitting schedule out of the way. I can measure my completion of this strategy by coming into my duty ready to start activities and evaluate how the kids did that day and how I felt. Also, since some of the families who I have been babysitting have known me for so long, they don’t provide me a general schedule of what they want, such as what time their kids should be in bed, since they trust me. Another strategy I need to utilize is communicating and taking the initiative to ask the parents details ahead of time just in case they don’t say anything during the day they leave. This will decrease my worries and stress planning while I am already with the kids and spend more time participating in activities with them to keep them busy. I can evaluate this strategy by keeping track of who provided me details and writing it down in the notes in my phone.
II. Social
As for my social wellness, the risk I identified is becoming more distant from my family and close friends before college, so my goal is to build my relationships with them. For my family, a strategy I can use is contacting them to plan dinners once a week so that we maintain having family time and talk about our lives during that time. I can check if this strategy is effective by evaluating the effect it has on my relationship with my family, whether we talk or text more often to one another or not. This might take a month or two to really see if our relationships are getting stronger or if it is only during those times we have dinners or gatherings. As for my friends from high school and in my neighborhood, I need to communicate with them about our individual busy schedules and make decisions together of when the right place and time would be to meet up and hang out, especially during the summer. To evaluate this strategy, I have to give it a whole semester and over the summer and journal what happens to see who is actually trying to work out our friendships and who isn’t. If it comes to this point, I know I will need to think positively and realize that those who I will stay friends with are the ones important and accept that I can’t please everybody.
III. Emotional
The risk I see in my emotional wellness involves keeping my emotions inside during hard times.
I don’t often express my emotions when they’re negative ones, to my support system, and that is something I need to change. I need to set a goal to decrease the stress I put on myself during these challenges. A strategy I can utilize is actually being more open little by little to my family. I can start with my mom who I feel I am the most comfortable with. A way to evaluate this strategy is by checking on my own thoughts inside and reminding myself to let my feelings and thoughts out and see the result of having the pressure and stress decrease. Another risk I can identify is that I tend to think about negative thoughts during problems, especially during family problems, and I don’t talk to my own family about it. According to the MayoClinic, “To monitor your stress, first identify your triggers. What makes you feel angry, tense, worried or irritable?” (MayoClinic, 2017). A strategy I can use is record and keep track of the negative thoughts in my head, find out the triggers, and avoid and stop thinking about them. Instead, I need to talk to my family when we have problems as my coping mechanism instead of thinking negative thoughts. I need to make this a habit and lifestyle and strengthen my communication with my family when problems …show more content…
arise.
IV. Intellectual
My intellectual health risk I can identify involves not being open to new ideas that I am not used to or don’t believe in. Whether it’s in literature or current issues, I usually pay no mind to them and make my arguments based on my own opinions and beliefs. Even though I challenge my mind to give consideration to the other side, I do not develop my curiosity for this, so my goal needs to develop my curiosity. A strategy to assess this risk is by reading literature and current issues to be more ideas and concepts I would not necessarily talk about and develop my knowledge of. To assess the effect of this strategy, I can compare my previous thoughts and knowledge about these ideas and concepts to my current thoughts and knowledge about them. I can begin and and complete this strategy in a few weeks. Another strategy I can utilize is by participating in political organizations in my school to be open and feel the need to develop my curiosity, which will add motivation on my part. I can assess the effect of this strategy by reflecting on the development of how I think and build my knowledge about new ideas. I will complete this strategy by participating in the activities throughout a whole semester and see if there is a difference in my way of thinking.
V. Physical
The risk associated with my physical wellness would be my lack of exercise.
I realize that I rarely make time to exercise, especially ever since I had gotten to college. I do eat a variety of food, but I know that I will also need to exercise everyday for at least 30 minutes, especially since I know from my family genogram that high blood pressure runs in our family. A strategy I will need to utilize is to make time to exercise for at least 30 minutes each day. After a few weeks, I can evaluate if this strategy is effective by keeping track of my steps and buying a fitbit watch to monitor if I get out of breath quick after taking the stairs, which is how I usually feel now. Another strategy to assess this risk is to avoid eating fried foods and foods high in fat and sodium. To evaluate this strategy, I will need to carefully check the fat and sodium content in the food I intake, especially in the snacks I choose, and make better decisions. I would need to practice both of these strategies every day and make them lifestyle
habits.
VI. Spiritual
My spiritual health risk involves feeling too busy and lacking time to attend mass as a part of my spirituality and religion, especially since my family and I have different schedules and I was used to having all of us going all together before. A strategy to fix this risk is to manage my schedule and make time to attend mass and church services on my own here on campus, which is a great place for my strategy since Carlow is a Catholic university. I need to find out which day the Campus Ministry holds mass and attend on those days, or if I can’t and have another thing on my schedule I can’t miss, I will make it up by going to the chapel to have my own quiet time to reflect even if there is no mass. I know one of my friends, who is also Catholic, always goes to the chapel at least once a week, and so another strategy I can utilize is having her remind me and we can go together. Having someone will help me immensely since I always got used to attending church with my family or a group of people. A way to evaluate both of these strategies is by journaling how often I attend mass here on campus, checking my progress, and seeing if I feel better about my spirituality and don’t feel guilty about not being involved in my religion. I will need to maintain this practice and make it a habit again, like before college, in my lifestyle.
VII. Environmental
My environmental wellness risk involves hurting the environment by taking long showers, and this will hurt me as well as other people in the long run. It also makes the my parent's water bill costly when I’m home, so I need to take shorter showers. A strategy to fix this risk is to turn off the shower when I’m not using it and not keep it running. To assess this strategy, I need to check if I have made it a habit to turn the shower off when I’m not using it. Another strategy I can utilize to fix this risk is to write myself a sticky note where I can see it, like on the bathroom mirror, so that I will not forget to practice turning off the shower until it becomes a habit. To evaluate this strategy, I will need to make sure that the sticky note doesn’t get lost and check my progress based on my reminder. It will take a few weeks to continue doing these strategies until I can make it a habit to turn off the shower without thinking about it.