Occupational Therapist: The Intentional Relationship Model

As an occupational therapist, I would like to base my perspective in our domain of practice using therapeutic use of self. Efficiently handling rapports with patients necessitates that the OT first improve an understanding of his or her own interpersonal way. Therapeutic modes are explicit methods of interrelating with the patient that create the practitioner's interpersonal way (Taylor, 2008). The Intentional Relationship Model (IRM) supports that no approach is intrinsically superior or inferior to another, and that the choice of an approach or conventional of approaches in any known communication with a patient should be contingent on the patient's exceptional interpersonal personalities and those proceedings that transpire through treatment