Case Study: Rehabilitation Institute Of Orange (RIO)

The place that I am interning at is Rehabilitation Institute of Orange (RIO). At RIO they have classes for older adults, children, and have classes for disabled persons as well. They work with anyone and services are provided without regard to age, race, gender, and sexual orientation. They work with everyone whether its occupational therapy, speech therapy, and with fine and gross motor skills. They help everyone in whatever they need help in the most. For disabled persons they help them how to interact with others and really help with speech and motor skills so that they can better function at home, school, or work. RIO’s mission is to attain its goals of improving the quality of life of disabled individuals to function at home and at school, …show more content…
Cognitive behavioral therapy is one form of psychotherapy in which patients learn skills to use out in the world whether it’s a job, school, or living at home it focuses more on changing behavior, (Beck, J.). It is a short-term, goal-oriented psychotherapy treatment that takes a hands-on, practical approach to problem-solving. Its goal is to change patterns of thinking or behavior that are behind people’s difficulties, and so change the way they feel (Martin, B. 2013).This is used to change negative behaviors that are potentially self destructive to the self so it is used to replace bad habits with good ones by using classical conditioning. Classical conditioning predicts that by repeatedly pairing a motivationally significant stimulus (such as food) with a particular signal (such as a ringing bell) will result in a conditioned response when the signal is encounter (the bell rings in absence of food) (Reichett, A. …show more content…
Many times, the reasons why they usually are hitting others and pulling others hair is out of frustration and not being able to express themselves they would they would like. Since we cannot hit a child because it is against the law and is bad for the child themselves we try to use other tactics to get the child to stop and apologize. One thing that we do is that we take that child’s hand and make sure that they are looking at us and have a semi angered face and tell them that what they did was wrong and show them that the other child is hurting, in the other child’s case they are usually crying. We tell them that they have to say sorry and then take their hand and tell them soft touches so that they understand that hitting isn’t ok and that if they do want to touch the other child they have to do it softly. In many cases, it does work and other times it doesn’t so in that case that child is pulled away and is forced to be in