Occupational Therapy is a profession where a therapist’s primary aim is to assist individuals to achieve everyday life skills. Often times‚ many individuals who need therapy have had circumstantial situations in their lives. This prevents them from participating in daily activities. An Occupational Therapist should be able to help an individual adapt to their specific environment and help create a foundation to improve their quality of life. A task can range from self-care skills such as showing
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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Solution-focused brief therapy uses several techniques and procedures in helping clients find solutions and create a more satisfying life. The therapeutic relationship must be a collaborative one. The therapist must believe that the clients are the experts in their own lives. If the therapeutic process is not a joint-venture‚ the clients will not find positive solutions to their problem. The Miracle Question‚ Pretherapy Change and Scaling Questions are just three
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2. A healthy family: a. Understands the construct of the dominant culture in which they live and the effect on their family narrative. b. Is empowered to identify their problems as separate from themselves and thereby disempower the problem. c. Is able to re-author life narratives in such a way that they identify themselves in a new healthier manner. How change happens: 1. A family is asked to describe their problem story‚ and eventually how they managed to survive their problem story.
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Music Therapy: Is It The Cure To Mental & Physical Problems? Music therapy is defined as the skillful use of music and musical elements by an accredited music therapist to promote‚ maintain‚ and restore mental‚ physical‚ emotional‚ and spiritual health. Music has nonverbal‚ creative‚ structural‚ and emotional qualities. These are used in the therapeutic relationship to facilitate contact‚ interaction‚ self-awareness‚ learning‚ self-expression‚ communication‚ and personal development (Source: Canadian
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Family Therapy is a type of therapy that focuses on the relationship between family members or partners. While other type of therapy look at individual patients alone‚ family therapy brings family relationships into the picture. The goal of this therapy is to explore the relationships with other family members that may be the potential cause of the problem or problems of the identified patient (Exploring 503). There are multiple approaches that a family therapist may take. Some of the major techniques
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Assignment 1 1.1 Defining the Core Constructs of Adlerian Therapy. When Gina says she is determined‚ Dr. Carlson asks her where her determination is directed. What is his intent? Gina responds with happiness. Her own and her two boys. His intent is to get her to focus on the good and the progress made. He trying to scaffold the sessions questioning to determine more information and to promote client self awareness. His intent is as well for her to see the goal setting nature
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Narrative Therapy is considered a non-blaming approach to the problems clients deal with. This type of therapy is a respectful and collaborative approach to counseling and community work‚ focusing on people’s ability to externalize problems. Narrative Therapy was developed by Michael White and David Epston. The central idea to this therapy is ‘the person never IS the problem. The person HAS a problem’. It essentially focuses on the stories of people’s lives and is centered on the theories that problems
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people might question the relationship between occupational therapy and physical therapy. Some think the professions are the same or that the terms are the same; there are a few different therapies for people who have been faced with a stroke‚ a disability‚ or any injury that has caused physical restrictions. The methods and techniques used in these therapies can overlap with each other‚ but both occupational therapy and physical therapy covers all aspects of the patient’s health including their physical
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The Benefits of Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) Since man has had his first start‚ animals have been right along beside him‚ and for good reason. Animals are a way to bring out the emotion in people‚ they can make us calm‚ or happy‚ and even sad when we have to say our goodbyes. Therefore‚ naturally by adding them to a psychological part in medicine was a very good idea‚ and it is an idea that has been around for a long time. It is not just affecting people mentally but physically as well. There is
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The future of physical therapy is not just rehabilitation‚ but education. There is a serious lack of education in health and fitness throughout the population. As an aspiring physical therapist‚ I hope to incorporate aspects of health‚ fitness‚ and nutrition into my practice. Physical therapists need to rehabilitate‚ but also prevent and educate for the future. In my experience‚ many patients are back again and again after their first time in therapy because they do not know how to continue at home
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