Owl Be Your OT

The journal article I chose was a study based on occupation based groups for low-income urban youths. It was a qualitative study that looked at after school youth groups that allowed kids to talk about any anger they may have and how they can manage that anger and turn it into something positive. These youth groups also allowed the kids to choose the leisure activities they wanted to participate in, which was shown to create a more positive and interactive atmosphere that increased the mood of the kids. These groups allowed the participants to engage in meaningful activities and interact with each other in a way that might not be typical or normal on a day to day basis. The study was phenomenological and took information from the perspectives of the individual group members. The groups were weekly and they involved children attending religious, inner-city school. The study was supervised by a certified occupational therapist and 22 occupational therapy students. Seventy kids, ranging ...

On Monday, March 5th, I attended a meeting for family members of people who are alcoholics. I thought this was an interesting meeting to go to because it was not based on the person who is an alcoholic, but rather the family members who are effected by the alcoholism. Sometimes, I think it is easy to forget that alcoholism doesn't just effect that person, but also the people they are associated with. The group started out with an introduction of what the group meeting would be about. It was a much larger group than I had expected; I was expecting around 5-10 people, but there were about 30 people. It was held in a parlor room in a church, therefore there was plenty of room to accommodate everyone.  Going into a room with 30 or so people was extremely intimidating because I did not feel that I belonged. I know that I got some stares from people since I was a new face in the group. As the group session went on, I relaxed and became more comfortable, and at the end of the meeting s...