OCTH 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Therapeutic Relationship, Intentionality, Problem Solving

• School: Towson University
• Department: Occupational Therapy
• Course: OCTH 600
• Professor: heatwole- shank

Document Summary

A little kiddo who loved to tell jokes, was an outcast and then he would share them, then integrated searching for the jokes: therapeutic use (south dakota) Occupational engagement: humans as occupational begins, occupation through the lifespan, meaningful occupations. Ot practice: ot process, aa, otpf, adaption & grading, professional/clinical reasoning, therapeutic use of self. The therapeutic use of self is the application of empathy and intentionality to an interpersonal knowledge base and corresponding set of communication skills that are applied thoughtfully to resolve evocative interpersonal events in practice. An effective therapeutic use of self requires that therapist to strive toward a fundamental understanding of clients as human beings. : not a space to worry about your feelings, focus on the client and how they are feeling. Relationship with who: happy (around 50%, manipulative, demanding, dependent (33%, oppositional, resistive, unrealistic (10%, hostile and untrusting (20%)