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Occupational Therapy Assistant is my program of choice. My Program The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) defines Occupational therapy as the “only profession that helps people across the lifespan to do the things they want and need to do…

Music Therapy For Children with Special Needs Sarah is a sixteen year old girl who was born with autism. She is always very loud and yelling. She never listens to what her parents tell her to do. Her parents went to therapists and tried everything they could to to try to make her behave better. One therapist told them about a type of therapy called music therapy. They decided that they would try it out and they started to see a real change in Sarah’s behavior. There was almost no more of her…

and can be done by nearly anyone of any age or ability (Diamond 2012). Research is also looking at yoga’s effect on college students. One study looked at graduate level health science majors who were either in a Doctoral of Physical Therapy or Masters of Occupational Therapy program. With the health science programs difficult and demanding courses, students were experiencing high levels of stress. The purpose of the study was to compare the immediate effects of yoga, humor, and reading…

Rather it is the affect the musical development will have on the person's physical and psychological functioning. You can find music therapists working with a wide variety of people. Some include the mentally ill, the physically handicapped, those who have been abused, the elderly, the terminally ill, and people with learning disabilities. Because traditional therapeutic remedies rely on language, their effectiveness depends on the person's ability to verbally interact with the therapist.…

the troubles that someone with PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) deals with on a daily basis. This disorder is highly misunderstood and hard to diagnose. According to the author of Cop Shock, Allen Kates (1999, 59) states, “The American Psychiatric Association suggests that therapists should not even attempt a diagnosis of PTSD until the sufferer has experienced 'disturbances ' for more than one month." This shows that not everyone with these symptoms has PTSD. Post-traumatic Stress…

speech production that “refers to the smoothness, rate, and effort of speech” (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, p. 1). Stuttering is an interruption in the flow of speaking in which “sounds, syllables, or words are repeated or prolonged, disrupting the rate and rhythm of speech” (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 2014, p. 1). These speech disfluencies may be accompanied by physical tension (rapid eye blinks or tremors of the lips), negative reactions,…

encopresis, the repeated passage of feces into inappropriate places. Both disorders may be voluntary or involuntary and co-occurrence may also be observed (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).” Elimination disorders typically…

markedly diminished interest or pleasure in activities (her writing); insomnia, fatigue and loss of energy; diminished ability to think, concentrate, or make decisions; recurrent thoughts of death, suicide ideation, and suicide attempts (American Psychiatric Association, 2013; Durand & Barlow, 2016). What Caused Lizzie’s Depression and the Contribution of Genetics For “psychological disorders, evidence indicates that genetic factors make some contribution to all disorders but account for less…

filled with music that brought back his memories of his life before the disease and caused the patient to begin to twitch and jerk with joy. This is a synopsis of a small portion of, “Alive Inside,” a film created to show the way music and music therapy…

For example, developmental occupational therapists provide early intervention therapy to infants and toddlers who are developmentally delayed. The goal of planned interventions is to create lifelong development plans with measurable goals. However, sometimes adults with mental health problems are diagnosed late in life. These individuals…