Clinical Reasoning: What is it? - 3 views

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  #1 courtneyb22 on 16 Jul 17

   

  file:///C:/Users/Courtney/Documents/Level%202%20Fieldwork/Clinical%20Reasoning.pdf
  Or http://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=1877117 (I'm not sure which will work since I had to save it)
  
  This article is about how clinical reasoning involves more than just being able to give a reason for why you are doing something. There is a gap between what we know and what we can say which is where we develop clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning can be described as an interpretive or meaning-centered model that focuses on how patients make sense of their world via disability and thus its meaning for the individual's life. This is a contrast to a biological model which focuses on physical impairments associated with a disability. Much of what a therapist does looks past the physical limitations into more of life-related treatments: examining ROM, then stacking cones, then self-care activities which help someone build skills on a deeper level which many client's attach meaning. The article ends with explaining how occupational therapy treats illness/disability from a phenomenological perspective through meaningful experiences and that this idea should be better explained to other healthcare providers as well as to students who will be future OTs.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">file:///C:/Users/Courtney/Documents/Level%202%20Fieldwork/Clinical%20Reasoning.pdf <br /> Or <a href="http://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=1877117" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=1877117</a> (I'm not sure which will work since I had to save it) <br /> <br /> This article is about how clinical reasoning involves more than just being able to give a reason for why you are doing something. There is a gap between what we know and what we can say which is where we develop clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning can be described as an interpretive or meaning-centered model that focuses on how patients make sense of their world via disability and thus its meaning for the individual's life. This is a contrast to a biological model which focuses on physical impairments associated with a disability. Much of what a therapist does looks past the physical limitations into more of life-related treatments: examining ROM, then stacking cones, then self-care activities which help someone build skills on a deeper level which many client's attach meaning. The article ends with explaining how occupational therapy treats illness/disability from a phenomenological perspective through meaningful experiences and that this idea should be better explained to other healthcare providers as well as to students who will be future OTs.</div>

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