by hellokaren | Oct 3, 2016 | Occupational Therapy
I am now teaching a mental health/psychosocial course to occupational therapy assistant (OTA) students at a local community college. This week we’ll be looking at the concept of “therapeutic use of self” when working with a...
by hellokaren | Aug 10, 2016 | Activities, Clients/Consumers, Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Parents, Therapists
Does your child get upset easily over small and easily fixable things, like a ball rolling under a table? It may be because he doesn’t realize he has any power to fix the problem. Luckily, you can teach him to feel more empowered. I introduce to you...
by hellokaren | Jul 20, 2016 | Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Parents, Therapists
See flyer here: Homemade Customized Adaptive Equipment My lovely friend Beth has been working on practical adaptive equipment – creating it at a fraction of the cost of commercial design. I copied the following text from the flyer: “I want to customize or...
by hellokaren | Jun 22, 2016 | Occupational Therapy
Retrogenesis is the process of people with Alzheimer’s/dementia reverting back to childhood stages..as dementia progresses and more brain cells are ruined, the earlier the stages…I wrote what’s below in 2008. Just stumbled across it again. I’m...
by hellokaren | Jun 20, 2016 | Occupational Therapy, Therapists
Description: Many people with dementia demonstrate a pattern of behaviors that are perplexing and risky. It turns out there is often a trigger causing the issue. Occupational Therapy (OT) Practitioners are great at investigating the issue, then finding & removing...
by hellokaren | May 6, 2016 | Occupational Therapy
As I prepare for the mental health course I’m teaching in the Fall to OTA students (my first), I find myself consistently going back to my OT blog. I wrote over a thousand posts (not all of them high-quality, cough) while in grad school (2007-2009) and during my...
