This article breaks down clinical reasoning. It explains where a diagnosis someone receives comes from and how they are diagnosed. A diagnosis helps identify what occupational deficits someone may have, which helps us understand before evaluating them, what we need to look for. This article is helpful and helps break down clinical reasoning and the importance.

This article helps understand the problems children are experiencing with handwriting throughout the second grade. Also, this article helps parents understand that there is an underlying problem to their child's handwriting rather than just bad handwriting skills. It is a helpful article for pediatric therapy.

This article is a good fit for a pediatric placement. This article gives insight on how to be a good OT. This article is not only super helpful and informative for OT's, but also parents.

This article reviews the literature on treating people who have had a stroke. An extensive search in MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, AMED, and SCISEARCH was performed. This review identified small but significant effect sizes for the efficacy of comprehensive OT on primary ADL, extended ADL, and social participation. However, more research will need to be completed on this topic. This article is a nice overview to see what is being used on patients who have encountered a stroke and how successful it has been.

this articles reviews the literature on interventions used for treating people who have had a stroke. The most typical approach for treating strokes is using NDT (nuerodevelopmental therapy). This approach includes electrical stimulation, EMG biofeedback, and motor learning approaches. This article discusses other therapy approaches that aren't so common, but do have literature on them. I am currently a neuro site and this article is very helpful.

This article conducted a study surveying Indiana's public school -based occupational therapists and school representatives. The OT practitioners provide interventions such as handwriting, sensory awareness, processing, gross and fine motor skills, and perceptual awareness to students who undergo OT. In this article, it is evident that there is a need for OT and that there is a need for the psychosocial factors to be addressed. This article is a pediatric article and portrays the rising research for psychosocial needs and that they are being and need addressed in occupational therapy today.

This study investigated the influence of the occupational therapy curriculum in Hong Kong on therapists' clinical reasoning styles using two groups of therpists to complete the study. Results showed that more experienced therapists use conditional reasoning that considers the clients' needs, whereas new graduate therapists use procedural reasoning that focuses on clients' disabilities.The analysis of the occupational therapy curriculum indicated that it prepared the students with an equal emphasis on theoretical and clinical subjects and fieldwork practice. Also, the measurement tool used in this study is the COPM. This is an interesting article, because as a new grad coming into the field, it's interesting to see what is typically being used when it comes to clinical reasoning.

This article discusses the professional behaviors of occupational therapy practitioners. The focus is on students in fieldwork and how to gain and perfect this behavior. This article describes the beahvior of professionalism as"a natural developmental process; a process that requires careful nurturing on the part of educators and clinical supervisors". This article further describes and explains this model of learning how to provide and show professionalim as a student and how to carry over to becoming a practitioner. this article is not only helpful for students in their fieldwork experiences, but also relevant and helpful for fieldwork educators and how to provide students with the knowledge to learn to provide this behavior of professionalism to their future patients as practitioners.

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.

This article is a great read and discusses a multitude of strategies to teach technical skills while providing a foundation for clinical reasoning for students on fieldwork.