Occupational Therapy Application Essay

I came to the United States when I was 13 years old. I did numerous job shadows on a different medical career from school. Upon coming to America my grandma has a cardiac arrest and she was sent to Rehabilitation Center. Visiting my grandmother, a fascinating thing I saw was Occupational therapist assisting my grandma to improve the ways that support her to progress the skill that will lead to achieving success in daily living, such as, motor, social, personal, academic and vocational. My grandmother was there for 25 days and I used to accompany her every single day to rehab. Through my observations with grandma in adult developmental disabilities, other like pediatric, and psychosocial therapy, I have seen that Occupational therapist can progress a person's standard of living and allow them to explore the greater level of freedom and their existence of being able to do things on their own. As a pre- Occupational therapy major I would like to offer my knowledge in the field where I could spend my time with people
I can bring up the exclusive cultures and background while focusing on some of the challenges and stresses of the refugee experience. Since refugee kids are disturbed by forced to leave their country so bringing up those psychological stress and traumatic experiences to the field and how one to deal with them, I can help OT department by helping client on effect of trauma on school functioning, harassment, community resources, and engaging and empowering families because being new to the new world there lots of challenges with language gap many students were not able to express them and some may arrived unprepared to participate in school which will caused anxiety, depression, grief, fear, anger and isolation so that caused many in risk of mental disorder with my experience I can help those kid or individual with some sense of connection and ultimate