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1. Psychosocial OTMary ReillyGail FidlerGroup Work Emily K. Schulz, Ph.D., Ph.D., OTR/L, CFLE
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2. Mary Reilly – Occupational Behavior Retired Captain Mary Reilly ’51, a distinguished USC professor who gained international renown in the late 1960s for her groundbreaking insights into occupational behavior.
Reilly is considered by many to have been the voice of democracy for her profession, broadening its focus to make it truly responsive to the occupational needs of the American people.
During World War II, shiploads of maimed soldiers arrived in rehab hospitals across the country, and occupational therapists helped them get back to a meaningful life.
After the war, “OT became more and more medicalized,” recounts associate professor Diane Parham.
The rise of “science” in the medical model, she notes, also drove sister disciplines like nursing toward measurement of physical details and observable behavior.
“It was Mary Reilly who said: ‘Hey everybody, wake up. We have to get back to the idea of why our profession exists,’” Parham says. “She moved the whole profession of OT away from simply looking at physical details about an individual client, and back to the idea of using time to be engaged in meaningful activity.”
And it was Reilly, now retired and living in Fairfield, Calif., who boldly declared occupational therapy to be one of the great ideas of the 20th century.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/winter01/therapy/excellence.html
3. Mary Reilly – Occupational Behavior Four Themes:
Work and Play Adaptation
The Motivation of Occupation
Temporal Adaptation
Occupational Roles
4. Mary Reilly – Occupational Behavior The Motivation of Occupation
Occupation is intrinsically motivating
Humans need to be competent and achieve
humans have a need to
produce,
create,
master and
improve the environment
5. Mary Reilly – Occupational Behavior Work and Play Adaptation and
Occupation is a landscape to which the individual must adapt
Must have basic occupational skills in order to adapt (motor, social, decision making, time use, self-care, specific work/play skills).
Occupational Roles:
Mediate between the social environment and contributions of the individual
Occupational Career –
Comprised of an individual’s roles across the life span.
Roles are defined as behavioral expectations of one’s position or status in a social system – include child’s play, family roles, friendship, student roles, adult worker, retiree.
Developmental aspects of work and play
There is a bridge between
the skills and habits of a child at play and
the skills and habits of an adult at work, engaged in adult roles
6. Mary Reilly – Occupational Behavior Occupational Roles:
The nature of occupational role is twofold:
Socialization – people learn through the social environment the skills, attitudes and behaviors needed for a particular role through observation of role models, etc.
Occupational choice – people also select and make commitments to certain occupational roles.
human beings acquire
interests,
abilities and skills,
habits of cooperation and competition
to engage in occupational roles
(preschooler, student, housewife, retiree, paid worker, etc)
7. Mary Reilly – Occupational Behavior Work and Play Adaptation and
Occupation is a landscape to which the individual must adapt
Must have basic occupational skills in order to adapt (motor, social, decision making, time use, self-care, specific work/play skills).
Temporal Adaptation
Need to achieve an appropriate balance between activities of work, rest, play and sleep;
habits are basic structures that give temporal order to daily behavior and integrate skills into routines organized to meet a person’s daily demands.
Skills must be organized into patterns of behavior that allow for a balanced lifestyle and meet environmental demands.
Relationship of health and human adaptation
Health is equated to level of adaptation to environment rather than freedom from pathology
What early leader of the profession said this also?
(Balance, habits, rhythms)
8. Gail Fidler – Activity Analysis Gail Fidler is the founder of a task-oriented group developed from her practice and research at the New York Institute in the 1960s.
She was influenced by psychoanalytic and ego psychology, sociology, and behavioral theories.
9. Gail Fidler – Activity Analysis Non-Human Environment and Object Relations
- as a means of communicating
feelings,
needs,
ideations;
mediation between inner and outer world;
achievement of sense of self.
10. Gail Fidler – Activity Analysis Communication Process
Language is viewed as an expression of needs, attitudes, and emotions.
Non-verbal communication and actions reveal the unconscious.
11. Gail Fidler – Activity Analysis Activity Analysis Includes:
Motion,
procedures,
materials,
creativity,
symbols,
hostile and aggressive components,
control,
predictability,
narcissism,
sexual identification,
dependence,
reality testing,
group relatedness;
Also:
motor, sensory integrative, psychological, cultural, and interpersonal skills
12. Gail Fidler – Activity Analysis Doing
performing, producing, or causing purposeful action in order to:
Test a skill
Clarify a relationship
Create an end product
13. Gail Fidler – Activity Analysis Competency and Mastery
Social feedback influences sense of:
competency,
mastery,
achievement,
adaptation, and
self-esteem.
14. Gail Fidler – Activity Analysis Integrative Process
Engagement in purposeful activity facilitates the internal
sensory,
motor,
cognitive, and
psychological processes
15. Gail Fidler – Activity Analysis Health and Illness
Health = ability to perform roles and tasks for
self maintenance,
address personal needs,
contribute to welfare of others
Illness = results when functions and adaptations are impeded
16. Group Work Small Task Groups
Therapeutic
Peer Support
Focus or Study
Consultation and Supervision
17. Group Work Therapeutic –
focus on facilitating change in the individual;
restore or develop function;
prevent problems;
develop strengths
(6-10 clients)
18. Group Work Peer Support –
focus on providing support for people, families, caregivers, partners who have a problem/disability/diagnosis in common.
Professional may be active as teacher/leader or consultative/facilitator.
Can be instructional.
(Large or small as needed)
19. Group Work Focus or Study –
Organized to generate research hypotheses or discuss a specific issue/topic.
Clients with common chronic problems may find this format valuable to solve problems.
20. Group Work Consultation and Supervision –
Can disciplinary or interdisciplinary –
Therapists receive peer group feedback on professional practice
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