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.
Today, Chelsea, Gracie, and I facilitated a group over time management skills. I found this experience to be very beneficial and ironic. We actually all three, after selecting the topic of time management, forgot to do our rough draft until the day before its due date. However, this did not stop us, we stayed at school and worked until it was complete. I was actually very impressed with how well we came together and were able to make a great plan for our groups meeting. I really liked being able to do this because I know I will lead many groups during my fieldwork in Alaska and the more practice I get the more prepared I will be. I felt that we each equally delivered on this project. We were able to come together and decide on a plan that I believe flowed very well. My main take away from this experience was how it felt to actually be the leader, even if just in a simulation. It also made me very excited for the opportunity to actually lead a group in my up coming level 2 fieldwork.
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