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Showing 1 to 20 of 597 for “"Occupational Therapy"”.
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An occupational therapy perspective on diabetes
… qualitative study examined the potential role of occupational therapy, with its focus on individual and daily occupations, to enable people with diabetes to manage this condition in the context of their own lives. Using a process of intuitive inquiry, it comprised three separate studies all using …
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Standardized Patients in Occupational Therapy Education
<p>The use of standardized patients (SPs) in occupational therapy (OT) education has greatly increased in recent years; however, there is limited research on the perceptions of student’s clinical readiness utilizing SPs and whether or not the utilization of SPs prepare students for fieldwork. The …
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An Exploration of Experiences that Influence Occupational Therapy Students' Motivations to Pursue Occupational Therapy as a Career
<p>Occupational therapy (OT) is a client-centered healthcare profession that uses therapeutic activities to increase an individual’s, group’s, or population's participation in meaningful activities, otherwise known as occupations. The general underlying factors that motivate one’s decision to …
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Occupation in occupational therapy, a political perspective
Occupational therapy is broadly about the experience of ‘doing’ as the basis of human participation. This requires access to the means of participation: space, facilities and resources for different forms of human action. People who have experienced disability are frequently prevented from engaging …
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Occupational Therapy Student Preparedness For Clinical Fieldwork
… Problem and Purpose: Experiential learning and occupational therapy student preparedness. Occupational therapy education programs must prepare occupational therapy students for practice. Traditional observational Level I Fieldwork presents challenges to achieve student-learning objectives and …
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Competency Development In Community-Based Occupational Therapy
… a) to discover which strategies community-based occupational therapists (OTs) find most effective for developing the competencies that have been identified as unique to community-based occupational therapy (OT) practice, b) to examine respondents’ perceptions of the effectiveness of their …
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Self-assessments skills of occupational therapy students.
… future careers. The project aimed to investigate occupational therapy students' self-evaluation skills during their professional education and within their first work-place. This practice based investigation was conducted by a member of academic staff in one of the two centres in Scotland offering …
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Occupational Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit
… increased in hospitals around America. Occupational therapists in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame, California) lack a standard protocol for addressing physical, cognitive, and psychosocial factors in patients post cardiac surgery. Furthermore, …
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Exploring Humour as a Relational Practice in Occupational Therapy with Individuals Post-Stroke: Enacting Collaborative Relationship-Focused Occupational Therapy
… care has been advanced as a key direction for occupational therapy practice. In working with individuals post-stroke, the use of relational practices by occupational therapists needs to be sensitive and responsive to the potential communication, cognitive and physical impairments individuals …
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Merging yoga and occupational therapy for Parkinson's disease
… with Parkinson's disease (Merging Yoga and Occupational Therapy for Parkinson's Disease [MY-OT for PD]), conduct a feasibility and pilot study, and analyze outcomes following the MY-OT for PD program. Method: This dissertation includes three studies. Study One was a qualitative study which …
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Mature students in occupational therapy education and practice
… and early professional performance of recent occupational therapy graduates. The study was divided into two parts. The analysis of age and academic performance in occupational therapy education initially provided a picture of mature student success when compared with the performance of younger …
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Developing a Resilience Program for Occupational Therapy Students
… however, there are no current programs for occupational therapy students (Delany et al., 2015). Research has shown that occupational therapy students experience high levels of stress that can lead to burnout (Everly et al., 1994). To address this programming gap, we developed and piloted a …
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Perspectives on occupational therapy transformation in South Africa
… lecture that was given, by the author, to the Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa (OT ASA) in July 1999. The central theme of both the lecture and the dissertation is professional transformation. the impetus for which is seen to reside in the axiology of the profession, starting …
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The occupational therapy intensive care unit guide: a practical guide for implementing occupational therapy services with people who are critically ill
… diagnoses acquired during their hospital stay. Occupational therapy is a profession that facilitates patients’ recovery through holistic evaluation and treatment. Occupational therapy in the ICU improves patients’ strength, cognition, functional independence in activities of daily living and …
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