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Megan Applegate

Play Deprivation in Children With Physical Disabilities: The Role of the Occupational T... - 0 views

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psychosocial needs; pediatrics

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  • Megan Applegate on 15 Nov 16
     
    Self-initiation, exploration, and free play are vital parts of growing up and learning for children. Children with physical disabilities may be deprived of normal play opportunities and hindered during this vital part of growing up. This can lead to disturbances in psychosocial health in children, also known as a second disability that decreases potential for independent behavior and performance. This interesting article describes the important role that occupational therapists have to increase independence and opportunities for children with physical disabilities. OT practitioners should consider a variety of factors when addressing needs of these children to influence play activities. These include considering the uniqueness of each child, understanding their capabilities, positively influencing parent-child and peer relationships, considering role of other caregivers, adapting toys and materials, and modifying the environment or the setting to promote success and play situations.
erickaleighty

Attitudes of Occupational Therapy Personnel Toward Persons With Disabilities - 0 views

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  • erickaleighty on 27 Jul 14
     
    This study is an investigation of the attitudes of occupational therapy practitioners towards persons with disabilities using the Scale of Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons for measurement. The results indicated that they hold a very favorable attitude toward persons with disabilities, and that they believe that a negative attitude would adversely affect the therapeutic relationship. This article also discusses the ethics on this topic in detail and the importance of a relationship with disabled people as an OT professional.
kolodziejs

Clinical Reasoning - 0 views

Narrative reasoning is a central mode of clinical reasoning in OT. Therapists reason narratively when they are concerned with disability as an illness experience, that is, with how a physiological ...

http:__ajot.aota.org_article.aspx?articleid=1877119

started by kolodziejs on 14 Nov 15 no follow-up yet
dietrichc2

Translational Research for Occupational Therapy: Using SPRE in Hippotherapy for Childre... - 0 views

Weissman-Miller, D., Miller, R. J., & Shotwell, M. P. (2017). Translational Research for Occupational Therapy: Using SPRE in Hippotherapy for Children with Developmental Disabilities. Occupational ...

EBP

started by dietrichc2 on 15 Oct 17 no follow-up yet
alisonnurre

Rehabilitation Research at the National Institutes of Health: Moving the Field Forward ... - 0 views

https://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=2618316&resultClick=3 Approximately 53 million Americans live with a disability. For decades, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been conducti...

Rehabilitation Research

started by alisonnurre on 08 Dec 17 no follow-up yet
arikamarie

The Impact of Community Paediatric Occupational Therapy on Children with Disabilities a... - 0 views

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  • arikamarie on 08 Nov 15
     
    The Impact of Community Pediatric Occupational Therapy on Children with Disabilities This study focused on looking at whether or not occupational therapy enabled children with disabilities to become more independent as well as investigated whether or not the interventions reduced the strain of caring for the child. The occupational therapy interventions that provided equipment or environmental alteration did improve the child's independence.
charisseblinder

Evidence Based Practice and MS - 1 views

As occupational therapists working within an inpatient rehabilitation setting, the primary goal for our patients with multiple sclerosis is to reduce level or disability. The researchers in this ar...

http:__onlinelibrary.wiley.com_doi_10.1002_ana.410420216_pdf

started by charisseblinder on 01 Nov 15 no follow-up yet
courtneyb22

Clinical Reasoning: What is it? - 3 views

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...

Clinical Reasoning occupational therapy AJOT

started by courtneyb22 on 16 Jul 17 no follow-up yet
maglianop

What is Clinical Reasoning? - 2 views

http://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=1877117 The link above actually brings you to the AJOT website where you can click on and download the full PDF version of the article for free. In th...

Clinical Reasoning

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hauterr

Analysis of the Orthopedic Content in an Occupational Therapy Curriculum From a Clinica... - 0 views

It has recently been suggested that occupational therapists who work with adults with physical disabilities use procedural reasoning much more than narrative reasoning in their practice. This stud...

clinical reasoning

started by hauterr on 20 Jul 17 no follow-up yet
kelseygallimore

Correlates of Life Satisfaction and Depression in Middle-Aged and Elderly Spinal Cord-I... - 0 views

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Spinal Cord Injury

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  • kelseygallimore on 06 Dec 17
     
    Advances in health care science allow more people with spinal cord injuries to live to old age. The purpose of this study was to determine those factors that contribute to the well-being of middle-aged and elderly spinal cord-injured people. One hundred spinal cord-injured people, ranging in age from 40 to 73 years, completed an extensive structured interview. In general, respondents reported a degree of well-being on the same measures of satisfaction and depression that was slightly lower than that of similarly aged nondisabled people. Pearson correlations indicated that people experiencing high levels of well-being reported high levels of perceived control, had higher levels of social support, and judged their health status to be good. These people also viewed their disability more favorably, tended to have higher incomes and more education, were employed, and were more religious than those indicating lower levels of well-being. The severity of the spinal cord injury was not correlated highly with subjective well-being, although there was a tendency for those with greater disability to report lower levels of well-being. People who were younger, who incurred their disability at a younger age, and who blamed themselves and felt they could have avoided the injury also tended to report higher levels of well-being.
limkej

Rehab & Disability EBP Resources - 0 views

https://www.aota.org/Practice/Rehabilitation-Disability/Evidence-Based.aspx List of evidence-based resources posted by AOTA that could be utilized within a disability/rehabilitation setting.

Therapy Occupational EBP Rehabilitation

started by limkej on 02 Dec 17 no follow-up yet
alisonnurre

Youth and Parent Perspectives of an Environment Problem-Solving Intervention for Transi... - 0 views

https://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=2636435&resultClick=3 Project TEAM empowers transition-age youth with disabilities to identify environment barriers and generate solutions to increase ...

Environment

started by alisonnurre on 08 Dec 17 no follow-up yet
gentiledj09

Factors affecting clinical reasoning of occupational therapists: - 0 views

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  • gentiledj09 on 04 Nov 16
     
    The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the factors influencing the clinical reasoning of occupational therapists and how they manage the decision-making process. Twelve occupational therapy practitioners working in mental and physical dysfunction fields participated in this study. The sampling method was purposeful and interviews were continued until data saturation. There were three main themes. The first theme: socio-cultural conditions included three subthemes: 1- client beliefs; 2- therapist values and beliefs; 3- social attitude to disability. The second theme: individual attributions included two subthemes 1- client attributions; 2- therapist attributions. The final theme was the workplace environment with the three subthemes: 1- knowledge of the managers of rehabilitation services, 2- working in an inter-professional team; 3- limited clinical facilities and resources. Research indicates that numerous complex factors can influence the clinical reasoning of occupational therapists. The knowledge and situation of the clients; the attributions of the therapists, social attitudes to disability and the workplace conditions of the therapists can positively or negatively influence reasoning and clinical decisions. In this study, the influence of the attitudes and beliefs upon reasoning was different to other studies. Understanding these factors, especially the socio-cultural basis can play a significant role in the quality of occupational therapy services and has a role in training occupational therapy students in clinical reasoning in this social context.
werringj

A Critical Appraisal of Literature Reviews About the Transition to Adulthood for Youth ... - 0 views

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occupational therapy

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  • werringj on 05 Nov 16
     
    This article discusses hinders and successes individuals face when transitioning to adulthood when living with a disability. The article identified that individuals need to develop a skill set along with environmental supports before transitioning into adulthood. The article also discusses the need to have an individualized approach to service delivery.
allisonlarison

Adhesive taping vs. daily manual muscle stretching and splinting after botulinum toxin ... - 1 views

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  • allisonlarison on 09 Aug 16
     
    In my rotation, we have treated a few stroke patients after BTX-A injections using splinting and a few other treatment methods. This article discovers the comparison of adhesive taping vs. daily manual muscle stretching and splinting after injections. A single-blind randomized control trail with 70 patients was conducted with patients experiencing wrist and finger flexor muscle spasticity post-stroke. After receiving the injections, patients were randomly divided into two groups. Group A consisted of adhesive taping. Adhesive taping is first placed on forearm and fingers and left for 10 days with daily checks. The tape provides traction on hypertonic muscles. Group B consisted of patient's receiving manual muscle stretching of injected muscles for 30 min and passive articular mobilization of wrist and fingers to maintain muscle length. Custom palmar splints with made for each patient and positioned for maximum stretching. Outcome measures used to to measure spasticity consisted of the Modified Ashworth scale, related disability with Disability Assessment Scale and finger positions at rest. At the end of the trial, it was discovered that patient in Group A, adhesive taping, had a significantly decrease in spasticity scores. Some limitations included lack of placebo group and longer follow-up data.
kolodziejs

Clinical Reasoning - 0 views

Shafaroodi N, Kamali M, Parvizy S, Hassani Mehraban A, O'Toole G. Factors affecting clinical reasoning of occupational therapists: a qualitative study. Med J Islam Repub Iran 2014 (19 Feb). Vol. 28...

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blequeknotts

Ethics - 1 views

Greene, D. (1997). The use of service learning in client environments to enhance ethical reasoning in students. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, (51) 844-852. Doi:10.5014/ajot.51.10.844 ...

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mregan1301

What is Clinical Reasoning? - 1 views

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  • shaemckay on 21 Jul 14
     
    This 1991 AJOT article discussed clinical reasoning. The article stressed the importance of not allowing our clinical reasoning to biomechanical and biomedical focused. Rather, as occupational therapists, our clinical reasoning should focus on human world of motives, values, and beliefs.
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  • stewarts3 on 04 Aug 14
     
    This article, published by AJOT in 1991, provides the reader with some insight into the basis of clinical reasoning, why clinical reasoning is important in one's profession, and how to apply clinical reasoning in one's professional career and an occupational therapy practitioner. This truly is a great article for us to read as we are currently developing clinical reasoning skills as level II fieldwork students.
  • mregan1301 on 06 Aug 15
     
    This document provides a broader definition of clinical reasoning that is associated and expected from occupational therapists. Due to the nature of our profession as being client-centered and a mix of artistic and scientific rationale, OT's are expected to provide clinical reasoning that expands beyond the medical model into a meaning-centered, interpretive model. The reason for this expanded clinical reasoning for OT's is that we are not just looking at an individual in terms of their disability, rather we look at an individual in a holistic manner.
  • mregan1301 on 10 Aug 15
     
    This document provides a broader definition of clinical reasoning that is associated and expected from occupational therapists. Due to the nature of our profession as being client-centered and a mix of artistic and scientific rationale, OT's are expected to provide clinical reasoning that expands beyond the medical model into a meaning-centered, interpretive model. The reason for this expanded clinical reasoning for OT's is that we are not just looking at an individual in terms of their disability, rather we look at an individual in a holistic manner.
legark

Changes in Impairment Level, Functional Status, and Use of Assistive Devices by Older P... - 0 views

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  • legark on 08 Aug 14
     
    This study examined the relationship between physical status and severity of depressive symptoms. They found that older adults can experience a decrease in depressive symptoms, despite having increased symptoms of physical disability. This study also found that older adults are likely to obtain more assistive devices as they age indicating an effort to maximize independence in the presence of disability.
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