Now that you have completed your experience‚ what are your general feelings and thoughts about it? It was exciting to represent the occupational therapy department by volunteering at San Pedro Commons. What surprised me most was the amount of time it took before we (a team of four SJSU occupational therapy students) were able to orient ourselves‚ interact with the residents‚ and start the interventions. The first four weeks we mainly dealt with logistics‚ learned about the MidPen organization‚ and
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As a third year Occupational Therapy student I have a strong occupational focus and can identify the value that occupations provide during transition and recovery from illness. With 5 years experience working in customer service I have an eye for detail. Through varied team and sole-charge roles I have developed skills in prioritisation‚ time management and teamwork. I work effectively as a leader or team player – training new employees and solving customer complaints and employment relation issues
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Skills Reflection -1 Groups and Creative Activities In this essay I am going to critically reflect on how an Occupational Therapist (OT) would use grading and adapting to increase the therapeutic gain for clients when using groups and creative activities. I am going look at these two skills as they focus on client centeredness and intervention. College of Occupational Therapist (COT 2010; Atkinson and Wells 2003) stated that as a therapist one has to have a continuing duty to respect and hold the
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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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wondrous and successful. - author unknown Touch‚ to me is the most valuable sense. Being able to touch and feel your environment and the world around you is such an important tool. I find it so interesting that touch is so important to life and learning. The realization that many children are dying from not being touched by their parents is unreal and devastating. It is not a hard thing for parents to do – to touch‚ cradle‚ hug and kiss their children. This closely reflects on our society and the
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This course acts as a means to prepare students to take the National Occupational Therapy Certification Exam. It is within this class that students will receive test taking strategies‚ guide to study‚ to practice computerized exams and allow the professor to assess the students and learn their areas of strength and deficits according to the course syllabus. Learning the areas of strength and weakness will all the student to focus on more areas than others. It will allow the student to know where
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In 2014‚ I spent my summer volunteering at McKenna Farms Therapy Services‚ where I observed pediatric occupational therapy and hippotherapy sessions. McKenna Farms had occupational therapists‚ but they also had physical and speech therapists. This allowed me to witness how these different types of therapists could collaborate and work together during sessions to effectively meet the child’s goals. The bulk of the kids that came to the farm only spoke Spanish or sign language. Since I only speak English
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Occupational Therapy By: Chriselda De La Cruz March 22‚ 2012 College Success‚ Orin 0101- P-15 Tuesday and Thursday 2:30pm-3:50pm Dr. Rufino Garcia‚ Jr. The career path I have chosen is Occupational Therapy. My reason for this path is to encourage a mental‚ physical and developmental change in children and adults. I have based my career on providing a therapy that draws a careful analyses and treatment on the emotional‚ mentally‚ physically disabled condition of a patient using
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Occupational Therapy: The Means to Stroke Recovery Prepared for: Occupational Therapy Students Prepared by: David Bush 12/09/12 Abstract: Early assessment by an occupational therapist ensures that goals are initiated during the acute stroke phase to prevent the development of secondary impairment. Early assessment also maximises the stroke victims recovery. Late occupational therapy intervention jeopardises a stroke victims potential
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Occupational Therapy 1 Occupational Therapy: A Contemporary Career in Psychology Occupational Therapy Occupational Therapy: A Contemporary Career in Psychology U.S. News recently reported that occupational therapy is ranked as one of the 50 best careers of 2010 and ranked at 19 out of the top 100 careers expected to be the most secure and best paying in the next decade (U.S. News Staff‚ 2009). The American Occupational Therapy Association defines 2 occupational therapy as a profession
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