a lot of time and dedication. Occupational therapy has a simple definition – helping challenged patients perform everyday tasks. Technically Occupational Therapists are defined as healthcare professionals who work under the supervision of a Physiatrist who help people with physical‚ developmental‚ mental‚ or emotional disabilities to overcome‚ correct or adjust to their particular problems. In practice‚ however‚ occupational therapy encompasses a wide range of environments and duties.
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Therapeutic Alliance in Family Therapy Therapeutic Alliance in Family Therapy Therapeutic alliance is the working relationship between the client and the professional. It focuses on the task‚ goals and bond between the client and professional. The client and professional agree on homework assignments that would lead to success in goals of what the client hopes to achieve in therapy. At this point‚ the client and the professional have begun to build a trusting relationship that would guide the
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crucial that counsellors tailor their approach to meet the needs of each individual client. Narrative therapy and emotion-focused therapy are two approaches to couples and family counselling that provides clinicians with a framework to help clients broaden their understanding of themselves and those with whom they are close. Emotions are the underlying motivating factor for why people seek therapy. Emotions are responsible for facilitating decision making‚ informing our responses to the environment
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The reason I chose physical therapy is because throughout my entire life I have always been in sports. Sports have been a big part of my life for a long time and there’s no way I could ever be away from that lifestyle. I wanted to pick a career that I know I will enjoy and where I’ll
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individualized nature. Moulton and Olsen (2004) gathered “a convenience sample of 51 pediatric occupational therapists at the 1999 Annual Conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association” (p. 54). While this is a small sample‚ the individual participants can be considered experts in the pediatric side of occupational therapy‚ making them reputable. They asked each therapist about their particular patients‚ breaking them down by diagnosis and by how many
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Music Therapy for Cancer Patients Looking back into history‚ the origin of music is unknown‚ however during ancient times‚ music was originally used as a part of rituals and healing ceremonies. Music was thought to have divine worth that brought balance to the human soul‚ therefore has had significant importance to healing of the body. Music is a part of our everyday lives‚ it is used in expressing our feelings and emotions‚ worship‚ during happy times such as weddings‚ sad times such as funerals
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occupational therapy. A worldly and humanistic approach would shift the emphasis of a patient being apart of a disabled category‚ and more towards a person who has to overcome certain challenges. My goal in attending graduate school at the University of Puget Sound is to prepare for a lifelong career as a therapist who has the analytical thinking frame of mind to go above and beyond what is repetitively
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Motor Learning in Occupational Therapy Even though the motor learning process is commonly over looked in day to day life‚ without motor learning we would not have reasoning for the things we do. Research on motor learning makes it possible to figure out how to learn an action in the most effective way. Naturally‚ we learn to utilize our motor skills in our occupations. Whether sitting at a desk typing up charts in a dentist office‚ preparing food for fellow hungry college kids in a cafeteria
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What is music therapy? According to an article titled Music Therapy‚ from World of Health‚ “music therapy is the use of music‚ along with other therapies‚ by a trained and credentialed professional in order to achieve therapeutic goals for a patient.” Therapeutic uses and benefits came about in the United States are dated as far back as the eighteenth century. Music has greatly evolved from the 1930s to the current year of 2016. Back
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Occupational therapy was born in 1917 with the founding of The National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy. The five founders held a belief that occupation was a valuable therapeutic tool‚ but also knew scientific evidence would push occupational therapy (OT) to be a respected field (Schwartz‚ 2003). Much has changed in OT in the last hundred years‚ but OT still stands strong on two points‚ occupation based interventions and evidence based practice. With the high demand for evidence
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