Occupational Outlook Handbook

Personal Statement For the longest time I aspired to be an Occupational Therapist. A month ago, I noticed that wasn’t the journey I desired to take. I kept asking myself, “why?” what made me heartfelt about that career in the first place? Then it dawned on me, people. It took me quite some time to realize that this was the path I wanted to take. I always knew I wanted to obtain a masters but I wasn’t quite sure in which area I wanted to study. After volunteering at the hospital, I realized that…

When I was growing up, I watched as my grandfather succumbed to Parkinson’s disease. On several occasions, he would take me with him when he went to physical therapy sessions, and I feel that sparked my interest. It was something that I believe helped him remain mobile and functional until an old age. In high school, I encountered physical therapy again when I got into an accident. Soon after, I ended up going to physical rehabilitation to get back motion in my knee. It was at these sessions…

Occupational therapy’s roots can be traced back to the military in the early 20th century. Over the past nearly hundred years, occupational therapy has adapted in response to the changing needs of service members. Nowadays, military personnel are returning home from combat with various impairments and disabilities. Many veterans continue to face traumatic brain injury, and mental health comorbidities such as post-traumatic stress disorder are common. Furthermore, symptoms of traumatic brain…

regulate their breathing. On the other hand an occupational therapist may help someone to begin to walk again if they had lost feeling in one side of their body when they had a stroke. However a similarity between a paramedic and an occupational therapist is that both of them can work both for the statutory and private sector. Although paramedics usually work for the national health service (NHS) they can also work for private ambulance services. Occupational therapists can also work under the…

My absolute goal would be to become an occupational therapist. I plan on working in this career until I retire and the military has set me up for success. They are many routes possible I can take achieve this goal. To personally prepare myself, there are certain steps in order for me to take to get there. Time and training will benefit me as well to make sure that I am successful as an occupational therapist. My first steps would be to complete my certification as a OT technician, and work in…

Occupational Psychology is the study of behaviour of people at work and it normally covers application of social psychology to mental health, safety, training of employees,etc…… It has different major theoretical approaches and this report is going to analyse three of them including Psychodynamic approach, cognitive approach and behaviour approach. For Psychodynamic Approach, it was founded by Sigmund Freud and it holds two major parts in terms of unconscious psychological processes and the past…

Self-efficacy concerns with perceived self-efficacy of an individual in managing his/her own life circumstances (Ahearne, Mathieu, & Rapp, 2005; Fernandez-Ballesteros et al., 2002; Hecht & Allen, 2005; Judge & Bono, 2001). Slightly different, Riggs and Knight (1994) point out that self-efficacy refers to individual judgments of the consequences that work performance is expected to produce (p.755). Similar to Riggs and Knight, R. Wood and Bandura (1989) define self-efficacy as beliefs in one’s…

of a Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) Specialist is to provide analytical and implementation support in safety, contractor safety, occupational health, process safety, fire protection, environmental, distribution and ergonomics. Also to evaluate and determine if work can continue under current safety conditions. The SHE Group works to minimize occupational disease and injury to the population of DuPont Spruance. This summer I had the opportunity…

the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance (CMOP), focusing on engagement as a primary aspect of occupational performance. CMOP-E was published in 2007 and developed by Helene Polatajoko, Elizabeth Townsend and Janet Craik. (McColl et al., 2015). The ideas within this theoretical model stem from the ideas associated in the Person-Environment-Occupation (PEO) model. (McColl et al., 2015). The core of this model is the importance and value spirituality has on occupational performance and how…

job postings, and find people prepared to work, screen applicants, conduct interviews and co-ordinate hiring efforts with managers responsible for making the final selection of candidates. Safety Workplace safety is an important factor. Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Employers have an obligation to provide a safe working environment for employees. One of the main functions of HR is to make a workplace safety training program and maintain logs for workplace injury and…