For my second post I will be talking about health as well as
mentioning a few theories promoting health. Health can be defined in many different
ways, one being “the complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being
and not just the absence of disease or infirmity.” The promotion of health is
the use of discipline specific techniques to assist people in achieving their
health related goals. Occupational therapy directed health promotion is the
client centered use of occupations, adaptations to context, or alteration of
context to maximize individuals’, families’, communities’, and groups’ pursuit
of health and quality of life. Health promotion is a process of maximizing
health through structured interventions. Before an appropriate theory can be
selected for a health promotion initiative, a clear understanding of the health
and occupation needs and desires of those being served is required. One of the
first and most widely used models in health promotion is called the Health
Belief Model (HBM). The basis of this model is the balancing of threats with
barriers of taking the recommended action and the potential benefits. A key
component to this model is self-efficacy. Another model is the Social Cognitive
Theory (SCT). The SCT is a model that is a good fit for occupational therapy
health promotion program development and evaluation due to its emphasis on “how”
to change behavior, the importance placed on self-efficacy, and mastery gained
through doing. This type of approach promotes effective self-management of
health habits that keep people healthy through their lifespan.
On Wednesday we were given the opportunity to attend the Memphis Rolling Grizzlies practice. The Rolling Grizzlies are a group of guys that are athletic, entertaining, and very inspiring. The individuals who make up the team all have different backgrounds, lifestyles, and goals, however there are two things they all share; they love the game of basketball and they play in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA). For those of you who think the words disabled or paralyzed entails that someone is unable to compete or perform in an athletic sense get in contact with me and I’ll take you to the next practice and be more than happy to show just how wrong you are. We watched them practice for two hours, and I honestly hadn’t realized that even 30 minuets had gone by because I was so engaged and amazed with what I saw. I don’t know about you, but I played baseball, basketball, and football my whole life growing up, practice after practice. With my memories and knowledge of baske...
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