On today’s episode of How to OT we discuss how to effectively implement meta-cognitive strategy training interventions, such as the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) model, into your practice working with clients who have cognitive deficits.

Resources:

Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance in OT: Using the CO-OP Approach to Enable Participation Across the Lifespan – Ebook: https://myaota.aota.org/shop_aota/product/900478U?_ga=2.221951633.807783281.1575494218-940177896.1568047033

Beth Skidmore website and CV: https://www.shrs.pitt.edu/people/elizabeth-r-skidmore

We speak with Dr. Suzy Stark about how she developed a new science measuring the impact of environmental OT interventions on occupational performance and participation. She goes into detail and provides clinical recommendations for how a practitioner can improve a client’s function and help prevent them from falling.

Additional research done in Dr. Stark’s lab including the COMPASS and HARP program studies can be found here: https://starklab.wustl.edu/research/

Rebuilding Together: https://rebuildingtogether.org/community-partners

On today’s episode of How to OT we interview Dr. Ben Philip about the importance of neuroscience in working with people who have had brain or nerve injuries.

Resources mentioned during the interview:

Zink PJ, Philip BA. (2020) Cortical plasticity in rehabilitation for upper extremity peripheral nerve injury. American Journal of Occupational Therapy 74(3).

Additional research findings can be found here: https://www.ot.wustl.edu/about/our-people/benjamin-philip-73

On today’s episode of How to OT we talk with Dr. Diane Smith about her non-traditional OT journey (0:47-7:40), summarize some of her research on advocacy and policy (7:41-12:30) and go over recommendations for focusing on the environment (12:31-14:30), increasing work participation (14:31-21:47), adaptive childcare (21:48-28:37), sustainability and climate change (28:38-35:35), and emergency preparedness (35:36-39:59). Golden nugget segment (40:00-42:12)

Resources mentioned during the episode:

Evidence-Based interventions for increasing work participation: Smith, D.L., Atmatzidis, K., Capogreco, M., Lloyd-Randolfi, D., & Seman, V.  (2016). Evidence-based interventions for increasing work participation for persons with disabilities:  A systematic review.  OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, 131 (suppl.), 1-11.

World Federation of Occupational Therapy Position paper on promoting green lifestyles: https://wfot.org/resources/environmental-sustainability-sustainable-practice-within-occupational-therapy

Other publications and research mentioned on the show can be found at: https://www.mghihp.edu/diane-l-smith-phd-otrl-faota

Dr. Carolyn Baum details the development of the Activity Card Sort (ACS) occupational profile process, along with the creation of a number of cognitive assessments. She emphasizes the importance of functional cognition, considerations when working with clients who have cognitive deficits and shares how the medical system is looking for what the occupational therapy body of knowledge prepares practitioners to do. 

Activity Card Sort: https://myaota.aota.org/shop_aota/product/1247

AOTA practice guidelines: https://www.aota.org/Practice/Researchers/practice-guidelines.aspx

We hear from practitioner, researcher, educator and Dementia care expert Dr. Cathy Piersol. Her vision is to promote best practice in dementia care and emphasize the role that OTPs can play in dementia care moving forward.

Resources:

Skills 2 Care training: https://www.jefferson.edu/university/rehabilitation-sciences/jefferson-elder-care/professional-training.html

Transtheoretical model: https://www.prochange.com/transtheoretical-model-of-behavior-change

A Caregiver’s Guide to Dementia: (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Caregivers-Guide-Dementia-Activities-Strategies/dp/1933822902/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=A+caregiver+guide+to+dementia+laura+gitlin&qid=1573066950&s=books&sr=1-3

Mind Start: https://www.mind-start.com/

The Alzheimer’s store: https://www.alzstore.com/

Dr. Laura Gitlin issues a call to OT practitioners to lead the changing of dementia care within the United States. She details interventions that provide strategies for caregivers to enhance the ability of people with dementia to engage in activities, reduce agitation and behavioral symptoms, reduce the functional disability of the client with dementia while improving the care giver’s well-being and confidence and reducing their depression and burden.

I know this episode left me feeling so pumped and so inspired about the leading role OT can play in dementia care and I hope you take out of it as much as I did.

Resources:

Link to the TAP program: https://duo.online.drexel.edu/new-ways-for-better-days/

Environmental competency press theory: M. Powell Lawton, Environment and Other Determinants of Weil-Being in Older People, The Gerontologist, Volume 23, Issue 4, August 1983, Pages 349–357, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/23.4.349

The 36 Hour Day (book): https://www.amazon.com/36-Hour-Day-Alzheimer-Disease-Dementias/dp/1455521159

Better living with Dementia: Implications for Individuals, families, communities and societies community: (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Better-Living-Dementia-Implications-Individuals/dp/0128119284

A Caregiver’s Guide to Dementia: (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Caregivers-Guide-Dementia-Activities-Strategies/dp/1933822902/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=A+caregiver+guide+to+dementia+laura+gitlin&qid=1573066950&s=books&sr=1-3

Living with dementia online open course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/dementia-care

On today’s episode of How to OT we interview Dr. Karen Jacobs. She tells us about some of her new projects, explains the literature and research that went into her work on Project Career and breaks down how cognitive support tech can be used in therapy and to make connections that lead to interprofessional collaboration. She then dives into the ergonomic study that started the now well-known national backpack awareness day movement and shares details about how telehealth is can be an area of growth for our profession. Links to Apps and websites she mentions are included below with a link to our show listener survey:

Webinar series Learn at Work: http://blogs.bu.edu/kjacobs/work-journal/

Matching person and technology assessment: https://sites.google.com/view/matchingpersontechnology/home

3030 time management app: http://3030.binaryhammer.com/

Planner plus app: http://www.appxy.com/planner-plus/

Notability app: https://www.gingerlabs.com/

Voice dreamreader app: https://www.voicedream.com/reader/

Kahn academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/

Meditation yoga studio app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yoga-studio-mind-body/id567767430

Project career website: http://www.projectcareertbi.org/

Job accommodation network website: https://askjan.org/

OTF telehealth paper with Winnie Dunn: https://wfot.org/resources/telehealth

AOTA telehealth position paper: https://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=2719223&_ga=2.240421699.1528483533.1570568512-1287984170.1502864434

Lifestyle by design podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lifestyle-by-design-helping-you-solve-everyday-challenges/id1360274216

In preparation for the Occupational Therapy Education Summit we interview Dr. Steve Taff, a leader in OT education, about the importance of philosophy in higher education and daily practice.

Links to resources mentioned on this episode are found below:

Taff, S.D., Babulal, G.M., & Bakhshi, P. (2014). The accountability-wellbeing-ethics framework: A new philosophical foundation for occupational therapy. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 81, 320-329. doi: 10.1177/0008417414546742

https://www.cotad.org/