...to what the field of occupational therapy actually is. Some degree of confusion appears to stem from what the term ‘occupation’ means, which consequently, coupled with unfamiliarity with the profession, results in a general misconception of the field occupational therapy. Occupation is defined as an “activity in which one engages” and occupational therapy can be defined as “a practice that uses goal-directed activity to promote independence in function” (Jane Clifford O'Brien, Susan M. Hussey, 2007). Occupational can also be defined as “everything people do to occupy themselves, including looking after themselves (self-care),...
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...Running head: Online Therapy 1 Online Therapy Information and Technology ONLINE THERAPY Talk space is an online therapy with professional licensed therapist. The website has easy access through an APP that is available on APP store, or google play. The Initial contact is a free consultation to assess your needs and how the site works. The consultant guides you through picking a therapist. There is also a video on u-tube to provide more guidance and information about an online therapy experience. There are visual easy to use tabs that you click to chat, make appointments, and unlimited messaging. The web site provides over 100 licensed therapists to choose from. An anonymous patient stated ““Chad Rocks! I have nothing, but good things to say about the experience. I have difficulty making appointments on a weekly basis due to my job, and this avenue allows me to seek help. Thanks for everything you have done”” (Talkspace, 2015 PG.1 P. 5).The therapy takes place in a secure talk space room online. The experience is through text messaging on a smartphone. The patients have access to a therapist “anytime, from any place, whenever you want” (Talkspace, 2015 pg. P.6). The talk space can be utilized as a journal and you can see the dialog between you and your therapist ("Talkspace", 2015). Breakthrough is another professional online therapy that provides services to patients. The website provides easy navigation through the site with...
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...inconsistent. He is an ardent soccer fan, enjoys Mariachi music, and attends church on a regular basis. According to his sister, Mr. Gonzales has a history of hypertension, prostate cancer, and osteo–arthritis. He had a partial knee replacement to the right knee in 2005. He wears corrective lenses that were broken during the car accident, and during the optometric evaluation to replace his lenses, early stage bilateral cataracts were noted. Three years ago Mr. Gonzales was diagnosed with a mild bilateral sensori–neural hearing loss during an employment hearing evaluation but refused amplification. Following the TBI, Mr. Gonzales made rapid physical recovery. He received intensive occupational and physical therapy for four weeks in a medical rehabilitation unit. Therapies focused on gaining independence in activities of daily living (ADLs). Although Mr. Gonzales made marked improvement in ADLs, he continued to need prompting and...
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...They have been found to stimulate the brain organ and to help regain some memories. It has also been discovered that they can bring language and speech back into the service users’ life who struggles to speak. (Wergerer 2013) The Elderly: Therapies like dance movement, drama and art when used recreationally can help improve the positivity, physical and mental health of the elderly social care service users. Engagement with art therapies can further the emotional progression and psychological well-being of these individuals. (Zeltzer et al 2003) The elderly can enjoy the arts and being creative just as much as service users younger than them. In art for example, water colour painting can be used as a more mature version and method of paining rather than finger painting which can be used for younger service users. Water colour painting is more complex and more of a challenge. Young children: There is so much evidence now-a-days about how children’s brains develop and the effect of creativity and the arts on this...
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...Other relationships provide more advice not therapy, therapy is providing clients with tools to solve things for themselves by establishing goals and objectives. Other relationships are more optional and usually more long term. The client is the focus of the therapeutic relationship. Pain is more acceptable in therapy, client is more concerned with how someone they know feels about their situation versus a therapist, making conversation more goal oriented. There are usually more personal boundaries in a therapeutic relationship. Clinicians diagnose mental health disorders because they see symptoms of the diagnosis. Most insurance companies require a diagnosis in order to pay for treatment. The main text for the diagnosis is the DSM-V. Self-disclosure can promote immediacy in a counselor-client...
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...Yalom writes about here-and-now practice including important elements and techniques. He states an important principle, which he deems one of the most important points he makes in his Group Psychotherapy book. This principle is, “the here-and-now focus, to be effective, consists of two symbiotic tiers, neither of which has the therapeutic power without the other” (Yalom, 2005, p. 141). The first tier is an experiencing one. During group, the members “develop strong feelings toward the other group members, the therapist, and the group” (Yalom, 2005, p. 141). The second tier is the “illumination of process,” which is done when the group examines itself, studies its own transactions” and takes what is experienced outside of therapy and apply it...
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...Is it possible for a company to create a work environment where workers can be safe and healthy physically and psychologically? My work experiences in physical therapy I often wondered about how companies could prevent injuries by being proactive in lieu of reactive to musculoskeletal disorders and finding ways to improve health and safety programs. Although I enjoyed my time in physical therapy where I was able to learning and help people, I felt my skills could be more useful in the prevention of injury altogether. I needed a career that helped a large number of people, emphasized prevention and proactive approach, and would continually challenge and motivate me to improve. Knowing that my career interest changed over time from what I had...
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...Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the Therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients. Contents Introduction Carl Rogers. Background and Influences Theoretical Constructs Strengths and Weaknesses Conclusion Notes References Introduction In this essay I will be discussing the viability of Person-Centred Therapy as an exclusive method of treatment for clients. Without an appreciation of this approach it would be difficult to judge the merits of the claim as laid out in the main essay title. Therefore I will begin with an introduction to Carl Rogers, his background and influences. In this essay I will explore the main theoretical constructs. Following on from this I will look at the advantages of this approach and consider its success in treating psychological disorders. Although Carl Rogers inspired many, he was not without his Critics. Therefore I will include the difficulties and doubts expressed by other Practitioners in order to get an opposing viewpoint. I will end with my evaluation of the claim itself and the reasons why I have arrived at my conclusions. Carl Rogers Background and Influences Carl Rogers was born in Illinois, Chicago, in 1902. His parents were middle-class, respectable and hard-working. His Father was a Civil Engineer and his Mother a stay-at-home housewife. Carl was the fourth child in a family of six children. Rogers’...
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...only part I am missing to complete my application. I need help please!! I became occupational therapist assistance first because I wanted to make sure this is what I would like to do. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." This quote by William James has such as strong significance for me, mostly because I truly believe that no matter how a person helps another; you can have the opportunity to make a positive impact on that person's life. This is why I want to pursue a career in the field of Occupational Therapy; because I would like to make a difference in someone's life. I have always had a desire to help others, I completed my cota degree and I was preparing to apply for my social worker degree, but for some reason I decided to wait, partly because I had a feeling that I needed to make sure that the career I was choosing, truly reflected on who I am as a person and my professional aspirations. I had never heard of occupational therapy until I started working in an Early Intervention program and also had a very personal experience that allowed me to discover such a life-changing career. Last year my grandfather suffered from a fall, which resulted with a fractured light dementia. My grandfather, who had suffered from several fall previously. My grandfather has always been my hero, serving in the Military as a general doctor for many years, I had grown up admiring his strength in character, his liveliness and overall his independence at his age. However...
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...1. How is reality seen by each approach? In first order cybernetics, reality is discovered through observation without the observer being influenced in process. To ensure such, the observer place themselves outside the system, where they can observe what is goes into and comes out of it so that they can initiate change (Becvar & Becvar, 2009). In second order cybernetics, the observer is recognised as a part of, or participant in that what is observed. Perception of both the observer and the observed is recognised. Reality is constructed other being recognised as something that is out there. Becvar & Becvar (in Baron, 2007) is cited as stating that, first and second order cybernetics are consistent with each other in the assumption that, reality is understood as perceptually constructed or created. Baron (2007) noted that, reality from first cybernetics approach maybe explained and interpreted from an isolated remote position, while a second order approach is aware that it is not possible to understand other’s reality without being a part of it during the process. The focus on context and communication is of utmost relevance in both approaches. The therapists attempt to understand the context through examination of individual perceptions, meanings and prevailing social system within which the relationships are included. Becvar & Becvar (2009) emphasized that, from a cybernetics perspective, meaning is derived from the relation between individuals and elements as each defines...
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...This paper serves to discuss the benefits of music therapy for special needs students, and propose a method of providing music therapy to special education children in the public school system. Music therapy has proven to be beneficial to special needs learners in that it promotes motor skills, academic skills, communication skills, and social skills. These skills are essential for special needs students to obtain in order to function in an academic environment and in the world around them. Music therapy provides methods of helping exceptional students develop these skills and use them in the school setting. It is necessary that music therapy be provided in the general special education curriculum because there are numerous benefits. It can...
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...On the last activity, I took the work value sorter on the College Foundation of North Carolina website. It gave me three important work values that I felt confident about; however, there were others that I felt more confident about. On the website it mentioned achievement, recognition, and relationships which is great, but that only affects me. I feel like these three work values are very important because in therapy your not just alone, you have your patients. The three most important work values are creativity, learning, personal growth and relationship. Being an Occupational Therapist you work with people everyday. Some people are already giving up because they are tired of trying. However, having these three work values will make a different....
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...History of Music Therapy The idea of utilizing music as a form of healing influence had been around since before the times of Aristotle and Plato, but the profession of music therapy formally began during the period of World War I and World War II when musicians of all kinds from amateurs who played in the local community as well as professionals who would travel all around the world came together to go to veteran hospitals, especially those in the United States, to play for the injured soldiers from the wars suffering from both physical and emotional trauma. With time, physicians began to take note of the positive effects the music had on the patients and soon, hospitals began to hire musicians full-time and the need for colleges to begin...
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...Running Head: A BRIEF CRITIQUE OF PERSON CENTERED THERAPY A Brief Critique of Person Centered Therapy Date of submission: 11.09.2008 A Brief Critique of Person Centered Therapy “Existential therapy is a process of searching for the value and meaning in life” “(Corey, p. 131) with a focus on central concerns of the person’s existence; Such as death, freedom, existential isolation and meaningless. “Existential therapy can best be described as a philosophical approach that influences a counselor’s therapeutic practice” (Corey, p. 131). Founders of Existential Therapy include Soren Kagarra, Fredrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber. They employed the humanistic approach. The contributing developers include Victor Frankl, Rollo May, Irvin Yalom, and James Bugental who developed the theory into what we have today. As one looks at the Philosophy and basic assumptions existential therapy looks at the unique characteristics that make us human and uses them as a foundation to build upon. Existential therapy also puts a great emphasis on freedom, choice, responsibility, and self determination. This student applauds that existential therapy suggests that we are the authors of our own lives. Our goal is to create meaning in our lives. There are six key propositions in existential therapy. The first is we have the capacity for self awareness, the second is because we are basically free beings we must accept the responsibility that accompanies...
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...Clients for Specific Clinicians The relationship between the clinician and the client is a crutial aspect for the therapeutic outcome. Having a connection between the client and therapist can have many determining factors that lead to a positive evaluation and outcome of the therapy. There are many components and attributes a therapist must be aware of and contain to have a good helping relationship with their client. A client wants to have a positive experience when receiving help and if there is no relationship or positive understanding between each the outcome could be negative or the client could stop therapy early. The concept that was thought of in the early 1900’s to profile clients and match them with a clinician that would possibly have a more successful outcome with therapy should be used in a lot of therapeutic helping relationships, and goes along with the importance of having a good clinician-client relationship. Being able to profile a client to find out which therapist would be a good fit for them, would help the initial alliance between the therapist and client. A client’s relationship with their therapist is very important in helping have a positive outcome at the end of therapy. According to the article “Relationships Among Client-Therapist Personality Congruence, Working Alliance, and Therapeutic Outcome” both client and therapist have their own ways of thinking, morals, behaving, and other characteristics that will influence how they relate to each...
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