Occupational Therapy Self Reflection Paper

I believe that the differences in our responses to the performance task of taking care of ourselves, result from the way that we each see the tasks that fall under this category. I see these tasks as an opportunity to have some time to relax, either before I start my day or at the end of it, my father does anything expect relax when doing these tasks. He sees these tasks as time slots. When he needs to do these tasks that he already believes are unimportant, that he could be and should be doing something else. While is washing his face, he thinks of all the things that he needs to do that morning or what he needs to do before he goes to bed and these tasks take up time he could be doing that. My father and I are almost polar opposites in this …show more content…
My father said that he believes that it says something about a man with hands that are dry and cracked, in all aspects of life. He wants to be able to pick up his grandchildren as well as shake the hand of a business associate without having them think his hands are dry and scratchy. I find this task very soothing and do it at least four or five times a day sitting at my desk. I do think that this is something that he modeled that I picked up, but I find it interesting that we both hold a great deal of value in this task. Another performance item that I addressed in my Occupational Therapy Self-Assessment was in reference to getting where I need to go. I also feel that I get to where I need to go extremely well. If I am in a situation where I do not have anything before that event I will allot to be 15 minutes early. On the other hand, if I am in class and I have another class directly following that I need to get to, I walk as fast as possible through the quickest route as possible. Being late, and especially in reference to being late for class, makes me very nervous so I avoid those kinds of situations in any way possible, so I find this performance task more important to my life. In the situation of a